How about Qubes? if you have the specs, you get sandboxes (VMs) and all distros are available into 1. Heck, you can even have windows VMs…

And if you don’t have the specs, just use any linux and install distrobox (docker) !

To each its own in accordance to their needs. Debian is great unless you want to add proprietary stuff like GPUs. That’s the whole reason so many distros (e.g. Ubuntu) raised to fame and gained popularity while being based on Debian… That, and the fact that until recently Debian installation guide was not updated and called to download an ISO to be burned in 1-2 CDs… that was so f*ing unclear. Of course you can use a pendrive, but if the guide talks about CDs… that’s just confusing to newbies. None pointed that out, but to me is like being even less friendly than Arch :P Just my opinion. That said, I have been using Debian based distros for most of my time, even today (desktop PC with MX ‘ahs’.)

On a gaming laptop I’m using Aurora because KDE Plasma btw (:

it could also be because I mentioned oracle :P

Try Pangolin instead of cloudfare, though it requires a VPS (e.g. oracle free tier, or pay €1/month to ionos)

As for actual kernel anticheat software siphoning out data, again, it’s something that we should not immediatly dismiss… The lack of evidence is not entirely on either side of this sudden ‘you vs. me’

Acxiom does sell a package of “Gaming” data. Probably coming from mobile phones for the most part, since that’s where most Studios are more aggressive (even towards children, see Tilting Point Media LLC settlement last year)

Again, knowing which Studios are selling data (identifiable or not) is impossible if no Court interferes.

I was only trying to make the point that it is feasible… That’s why I referred you to recall that “capitalism bad yadda yadda…”

a binary and a kernel module are not the same. And I was talking about business practices that are known. But nevermind, that was before I understood you are just trolling. Now I’ll simply wish you a wonderful reddit experience.

Data brokers do exist… Who they buy from is the only privacy they respect. You know, capitalism.

Use the report button :)

I have locked the thread now.

Only the failed attempts could be a Denial Of Service and throw you out. So, at least add an ever increasing delay to those. Fail2ban is important.

Like it or not, there are puscontrollers and joydicks in the world. You can use your hands or…

Ah, I had no idea. Those memes didn’t reach my info bubble :P

You read my message as an accusation to you, but I was describing everyone else and all the downvotes you got!

Of course you, and anyone else, is entitled to their preferences!! That’s the beauty of FLOSS. That’s precisely my point.

Trump is an idiot, extending the insult to a whole country in Africa seems racist… So, I am asking sincerely… What are you saying really? Surely, I lack some context here.

You said it’s not the best and then mentioned Hyperland as a panacea of customization… It is almost implied. Meanwhile the arguments against you go a little bit in circle. This seems like the typical internet people polarizing themselves. We are all enjoying our distros, text editors, DEs, and WMs. No need to start making up factions at all… But it’s way more fun to do so because we are humans and our society conditioned us to this. *shrugs*

This is entirely different approach, sorry. Fwiw, I bought a wireless (2.4Ghz) keyboard that has a trackpad, and just use a zoomed-in KDE Plasma. Far from the eye candy of a kiosk, but with some customization you may achieve satisfaction (:

TPB is still around, only magnet links are around. They were hosting torrent files which is basically a list of trackers. That’s what they had to drop, in order to continue functioning. And their DNS is still banned like from almost every westernized country.

Regardless of technicalities, they were #1 biggest player. (Today they are like #3 or #5?) What I mean to say, is that they got busted mainly because of this. To make an example.

Taste the rich, om nom nom.

Technically, the pre-existing system could be evolutionary biology. I’m just saying that in some cases, a little bit of pedantry is enjoyable. It’s an acquired taste, maybe