Sounds like they’ve figured out how not to be reduced to their jobs!

Haha yeah, I’m not super up-to-date on Bazzite, but I believe it doesn’t add much on a Steam deck. (And if you don’t want your other devices to boot up into Steam, you probably don’t want it there either.)

Being able to install it yourself on any device seems like a big advantage :P

Well… It doesn’t happen to you.

Ah yes, just like Vivaldi is now the #1 browser now that they’ve adopted this strategy.

Yeah unfortunately i can’t quite recall the context, but I think they were attempting to make encrypted storage the default, but then that broke on existing databases or something? It was a pain at least, I know that much 😅

(Although would be less of a pain nowadays, now that Signal has proper sync to restore my history.)

I mean, I use the Flatpak, but I have also run into breakage concerning the experimental support, resulting in Signal Desktop no longer being able to start, and me having to track down a GitHub issue with a workaround. I can imagine wanting to run the Distrobox just so you’re closer to a system that the upstream developers actually test with - not so much to avoid running a single command, but to lower risk of breakage.

Not by default, IIRC, and the integration is still marked as experimental - so just what the readme is saying.

Gottem

The definition of practice is doing the same thing over and over again, until you get better at it and get different results.

You don’t

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I’m mostly questioning the statement that “opt in is missing”, as I haven’t needed to opt out of anything. The only ML that’s enabled for me is something I opted into, which implies that that’s not missing.

That just removes some buttons, but AFAICS no AI would have been running if you did not toggle those settings?

What AI did you get opted into?

(As someone not particularly into AI, I’m happy to see that the majority of the features listed here are not AI, and many of them are actually useful. I love vertical tabs and tab groups.)

Yeah it’s a spectrum, which basically runs from regular browsing -> VPN -> Tor browser for regular sites -> Tor browser for .onion sites. (And note that even .onion sites don’t need to be obscure Silk Road type sites - for example, this is DuckDuckGo. That’s still a legal privacy use case.)

Presumably, if you log in to a site, you want it to know who you are, so I think that’s fine. (Where “who you are” means “that whatever you do while logged in is being done by the same person as who did other things when logged in outside of Tor”.) So no, I don’t think you need to limit it to stuff you don’t have logins for. I’d only make sure to not login/visit a site if Tor browser actively tells you that it’s insecure (which it does when a site doesn’t use HTTPS), which is pretty obvious.

Sort of, as in, the site you’re logging into will know that you’re the same person. Obviously if it’s something like Lemmy, if you post public comments then everybody else will see that it’s the same person posting them. It used to be the case that your exit node could also see quite a bit of what you were viewing, which can indeed often be linked to things you did outside of Tor, unless the website you’re connecting to was using HTTPS. Nowadays, practically every website does that, so you should be good.

That said, I am not a security person, so if you’re a journalist protecting their sources or otherwise have a serious threat model, seek expert advice.

You don’t necessarily need to use it to visit obscure onion services, you can also just use it to post on Lemmy, i.e. like a VPN, except without a VPN provider that can know which domains you connect to.