I don’t bother with PiHole because DNS-based ad blocking quite frankly sucks and is only getting worse.

I’m still waiting for someone like AdGuard to release a MITM proxy that does something similar to uBlock Origin and strips ads directly from the network traffic

But until then, browser extensions are good enough for most usecases (Firefox user so the adblocking ones work on mobile as well)

Try Ubuntu mate

'straya!!

I liked the WSL1 approach better. I find it ironic that the Windows kernel lacks so many useful features that it simply wasn’t possible to properly implement things like cgroups on top of it, so they just gave up and ran Linux in a VM for WSL2

ngl, this meme tickled me

If I didn’t have Google Maps Transit to navigate western Europe, Singapore and even Los Angeles I’d be completely screwed because I come from a country with next to no public transport and had no idea how it was meant to work

I’m glad I’m not the only one

Found the closet Arch user

Next thing Gentoo is too easy so they spend a week setting up Linux From Scratch

Linux is overrated *by arch users

FTFY

I use Arch btw, and so does my wife

The enshittifications will continue until morale improves

If I was going to r/FortNiteBR, I’d be using private browsing mode on mobile firefox too

Dinosaur companies happily throw money at things, the Salesforce business model isn’t terrible tbh

I just never 100% trust the code I don’t control

I never 100% trust the code I do control. Partially because a lot of it is inherited but also because I know corners were cut but I can’t always remember when and where

Haha I’m stealing that. Btw I use Arch (and so does my wife)

PowerShell isn’t the best way to anything except a migraine

That would be get up in the afternoon, and also you have Lupis

Damn security guys are trying to justify their existence again.

My Fedora is single user and the system handily comes with one called ‘root’

SELinux is one of the first things I disable. It causes way more problems than it solves.

All my workloads are containerised so I’ll trust the security of that machinery to sandbox them instead

Well, the barrier to entry is lower anyway.

Software also seems to be more complex than it was 10 years ago

Do it enough times and it stops being scary.

Using a tool like VSCode to perform the actual merges on individual files also helps because it shows what “yours” and “theirs” changes are from a user perspective, not a git perspective