> The workaround requires edits of the Registry. There is a global edit that applies to all Edge channels and edits for each individual version of the web browser.
Vote with your money on where you want things to be in 5/10 years. If you keep buying games for windows no one will develop and sell for linux. MS had no power, it’s all in the consumers’ hands, but they just don’t want to do anything about it.
When did you try, and which genres? Out of all the 20+ games that I bought in the last two years, all of them were Gold or Platinum rank on ProtonDB. The only real issues these days are with anti-cheat stuff in competitive multiplayer games.
There are still big games with BE or EAC which either don't launch still, or will sometimes allow you to play offline on Linux but won't allow you to join servers with Proton. Some examples: PUBG, Dead by Daylight, Ubisoft games such as R6 and For Honor, and Destiny 2.
I used it for about 3 months for Monster Hunter World with some occasional visual bugs and artifacts, just had to tweak some settings to go from 3 FPS to 60 FPS (seemed to only use my GPU if I selected a particular DirectX version). One day a patch dropped and it went back to 3 FPS. Couldn't find a remedy, so I installed windows. No more visual bugs and artifacts and no more tweaking settings to play the game.
Ah I mostly play World of Warcraft and Guilty Gear Strive, both of which work almost flawlessly, in my experience, on Linux. I definitely understand frustrations around things just breaking when new content drops, that did happen to me when Shadowlands released but was resolved pretty quickly. I'm on a Mac now (for unrelated reasons) where WoW is native.
if you're someone who is willing to invest time into researching regedit workarounds (which will eventually reset or cease to work), then looking into desktop linux is perfectly viable...and not theoretically, but practically perfect.
i used to do an enormous amount of Windows XP regedit tweaking and customization, using sysprep, rolling service packs into new ISOs, making use of https://ryanvm.net/forum/ scripts.
all of that has become practically impossible now. every update resets everything, regedits no longer work, and each update brings back the bloatware you've debloated using things like https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows.
the only recourse now is to disable TPM 2.0, which is a Win11+ requirement. or pirate that fabled LTSC windows edition because, you know, you can't actually buy it.
in 2020 after an unpreventable Win10 update fucked up my dual boot setup i finally called it quits and switched to EndevourOS (Arch) KDE/Plasma and haven't looked back; fuck Windows and its aggressive rent-seeking.
I have tried switching to Linux in the past and it was not for me. As upsetting as Microsoft’s recent decisions have been, it is not enough to make me change operating systems.
How about “My choice of operating system is not an indictment of my character”?
My choice to continue using Windows involves far more than me being lazy. For one thing, my job involves developing software specifically made for Windows desktops. I have also been using Windows for over 30 years. Quite frankly I’m insulted by the insinuation being made here.
Linux is great, but it’s not great for me as a daily driver. No amount of evangelizing is going to shame me into upending my digital life.
No insult intended. Your previous comment made it seem like it's too difficult or not enough to warrant the effort. Use the tools that make you happy, no diss intended.
I browse with Safari on iOS with JS disabled by default. I do this for privacy and accessibility reasons (gotta stop those annoying popup modals, trackers and other annoyances).
One thing I noticed with Wikipedia with JS /enabled/, all the sub-categories of a topic are by default, closed.
But when I browse with JS disabled, all the sub-categories are /opened/ and I have the full article.
Since most people browse with JS enabled, this means they have to make additional clicks just to read the sub-categories.
Which leads me to question: which version is better? The JS where you have to make additional clicks, or the no-js version where you get the full article?
Sorry to hear about your bounce rate. But even though ADs do not correlate to more sales, your message / slogan / unique selling point is in the minds of prospects, and the purchases will be potentially delayed.
I'm only saying this because as a consumer, I bought stuff roughly a year later when I had the money, even after seeing the AD a year ago! ADs plant the seed, then sales naturally follow, albeit delayed.
It helped me find some instances that matched my interests. Just keep in mind, most instances will die out if they're not sufficiently funded either by donations or the pocket money of the owners. This is why I treat all my Mastodon accounts as potentially ephemeral accounts that will die out given enough time. The more popular instances seem to be in it for the long haul, so go with those (as much as you enjoy the smaller instances).
The 'View Source' in browsers is what got me started initially in webdev. It was amazing seeing how sites were pieced together, and it was all progress from there. In the start I copied a lot of code, but then got comfortable writing my own.
Also the ability to write code in an editor and see it instantly reflected in the browser by hitting refresh was a game changer. No compiling. No writing code in a black box where you don't get instant feedback or don't know if the code is behaving correctly.
Recently I went to sign up for Rackspace and their systems flagged me as 'Suspicious'. I tried registering without a VPN in a brand new session, and again: 'Suspicious'. I provided all the right details for them, correct contact and address, etc I wonder what their churn rate for auto-flagging away potential customers is? They are in the business of taking people's money in exchange for services right?
I've had what you describe happen recently with some wireless vendors. They flat out won't even acknowledge my own domains a valid email domains despite being so and following every possible best practice. No VPN and using a static IP no less. I ended up using a reseller that apparently has not gotten big enough to use the over-zealous tools just yet.
One of my theories is that the older internet businesses probably lost most of their original developers, downsized their staff too much and had to shim something simplistic into their customer on-boarding flows and then found a turn-key solution that had a maximum protection setting that does not give insightful or accurate statistics. They are probably not even aware of all the lost financial opportunities.
I got a hard lockout to my LinkedIN account a few months ago, since I enabled 2FA and lost the device. I had to send a passport scan to support so they could verify it was me, so I could close my account. Not that I minded that much.
It goes to show you their support team is actually active and don't ignore queries (even if the service is free).
There's an interesting movie called Don't Look Up[0] which is a metaphor for climate change politics.
> The impact event is an allegory for climate change, and the film is a satire of government, political, celebrity, and media indifference to the climate crisis.[6][7]
After watching, I agreed that when the world eventually burns, people will be live streaming and tweeting about it instead of going out and actually doing something about it. We all have a part to play in this, and armchair activism behind the comfort of social media will do jack shit to solve this problem. Addressing climate change head on will be the biggest amount of cooperation humanity will ever have to do. After we address it, it will not be as hard to maintain decent temps. We can sail on this rock for millennia once we get out there and make shit happen.
The truth is, no one is willing to give up their comfort and luxury that's necessary to decrease global energy usage without putting lives at risk. It's technically possible, but people are use unwilling currently. I think as things get worse there will come a point where people start doing so out of overwhelming climate anxiety
Man that movie was horrible. Unfortunate because it might've been helpful in convincing people to believe in consequences if it was good enough to finish.
I trust this over Bitwarden or Lastpass since you have to trust those services with your data (and I don't). Web-based password managers can be hacked, or have their login interface laced with third-party code that could be exfiltrating your master passphrase. My strategy is using KeePass and keeping multiple copies of the database in various cloud providers in case my local copy is lost/corrupted. It takes under a minute to sync my local copy to Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, etc
For the super paranoid, SyncThing provides a straightforward way for you to synchronise your database between various local devices without having any data in the cloud at all.
[edit: Syncthing's Discovery Server probably counts as data, actually; you can work around that but then it's less "straightforward"]
OMG I tried to setup SyncThing a couple of months ago to sync my KeePassX (kdbx) between my PC, my MAC and my Android phone. It was hell, I had to fight SyncThing every step of the way (connecting between clients, which one is the receiver and which one is the sender and whatnot), and it just didn't sync. In addition I learned that in Android SyncThing cannot sync to an external SD card ( https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/issues/1366 ) .
I ended up uploading the file to Google Drive and using it's client. It works pretty flawlessly.
It works just fine for my PC, laptop and Android. Shame that you had a bad experience with it although perhaps your use case is a bit unusual. Although that's surprising about Android being so difficult to work with in Go. It sounds like this is being resolved in Android 10 upwards: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android/wiki/Frequent...
>I ended up uploading the file to Google Drive and using it's client. It works pretty flawlessly.
Besides my general distrust of Google, the real source of my headache is the ransomware attack. Thus such a simple schema is unsatisfactory. And the proper automatic backup procedure needs noninteractive testing whether the cloud copy is not garbled. Until now I don't know how to do it so I make backups of my Dropbox copy by hand.
I remember trying something similar and I kept getting weird results like repeated folders that didn't sync and then when they would I'd have 2 copies of somethign not knowing which I should keep. Maybe it's gotten better a couple years later?
It's a strange commercial offering with a weird relationship to BitTorrent (it's "ex"), but Resilio Sync is an interesting device to device option as well.
Mostly because it is closed source, and also the odd behind-the-scenes drama of Resilio's spin out from BitTorrent (the company, not the tech). (The BitTorrent company of today is a strange cryptocurrency/NFT zombie of the tech company it originally was.) To my understanding that drama and corporate spin out in part even influenced the creation of Syncthing as an alternative.
From my view, Resilio is still easier to use with better apps than Syncthing, and in theory their corporate business model seems sustainable (more so than the previous parent company) and can provide useful corporate support when such needs occur. But there's still lingering doubts after all this time that they will continue to do the right things, support the software well, and it is closed source so there's not a lot of community support options if the company's business model pivots in any accidentally similar way to the events that lead to Resilio existing in the first place.
If you don't want to trust Bitwarden with your data, you can self-host a server yourself (either running the official server [1] or the compatible Vaultwarden [2]).
and get into merge hell when you forget to push and have passwords added on two different binary blobs? no thanks. I prefer using something that was meant to be a password server
No. You misread my point. I never said you should replace Bitwarden and use a Git repository as a password manager. My point is about self-hosting in general, hence why I linked the recent GitHub outage.
If you can self-host a password manager, then in the case of GitHub [0] going down every month you can self-host your Git repositories yourself, especially if you have projects like wireguard [1] for example.
> I trust this over Bitwarden or Lastpass since you have to trust those services with your data (and I don't).
This is the conundrum I am in. I have been looking for a pocket-sized password manager, which can sync from something like a spreadsheet I keep in cold storage. This seemed to fit the bill:
So I purchased one. It's pretty cool, although the controls are a bit clunky. Overall, pretty cool bit of tech.
However, to import your passwords into the device, there is no way to do so with the stock software which does not involve uploading all of your passwords to their servers. That is asinine, if I am being generous.
I use Bitwarden. I don't trust that service with my data. I host an instance of the community-developed backend: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden on my own server so that I don't need to, and use the FOSS clients to access it.
I feel more comfortable with that than syncing a KeePass file over dropbox or google drive, mostly because I got myself into a nasty situation that way with a corrupted KeePass database a while back.
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