I will use old machine until the damn thing quits on me and be happy.

Or all of the above while still not being “as secure and private as promised”.

This article confirms my own experiences with AI. I spend a lot more time reviewing, reprompting, and tweaking than I save on coding. Having to double check or fight it to get what I want is not a time saver. Not to say that it doesn’t save time when it is right, but the thing that I never seem to get across to proponents of AI is that anytime I need to reprompt or refine, I have lost. I have officially wasted time at this point compared to simply referencing the documentation. Unless I’m generating a significant portion of code which only needs minor tweaks. I’m generally not saving time.

Nope, but I’m on Arch with Plasma 6.4.2

At least I don’t need to pay for freeware. Last I checked, the cost of Windows was included in my laptop and I didn’t get the option to not install an OS even though I fully intended to install Linux on it.

Wouldn’t call that a “summary”, but interesting read all the same. Thanks for the link.

I’m so fed up that I’m about to go all in on linux smartphones as long as phone, sms and data work. Everything else. Guess I don’t need it. To my knowledge those things do work. I just need to see how solid they are.

Seems like they are making a big deal out of nothing. This isn’t one of those instances where a false sense of security is being presented. If whatever tool that the user is using to test their ad blocking capabilities isn’t adequate. They will very quickly figure that out when they still get ads. How does any of this result in “Doing more harm than good”?

i didn’t have to configure it to do anything. paired the devices manually like normal while being on different networks. syncthing figures out the rest.

Syncthing does work across the internet. It uses nat hole punching to achieve this. Unless your network is behind cgnat / double nat I believe. Me and my buddies use it all the time.

For across the web I use syncthing.

It is a wayland feature to request access to allow for remote control of the device. In this case specifically for input. It shouldn’t be happening every 15 minutes. That is a problem with whatever app you are using that keeps requesting this permission?

Again the type of people who probably visit communities like this know that. If the profile is accurate and they know that these people are more resistant to these kinds of tactics. Isn’t just a waste of money to bid on showing that person an ad in the first place. I personally don’t even connect my tv to the internet and I run linux, so I doubt either of said devices are talking to anything. Ads outside that someone play your favorite song would need to build a profile on you on your digital devices and then somehow correlate that to you the individual when you go into stores.

I know you said you don’t think are all the way there, but without getting facial recognition involved. I don’t see how they would correlate the two in the first place. Even then there are still holes, but that is besides the point. My main point is that someone whom meets the criteria that I described in my first comment seems like a waste on money to advertise to if you are one of the advertisers who are bidding on these spots.

Why is it that if they have this information and build these supposedly accurate profiles about you that they would still be willing to show ads at all to the kind of people who are likely to frequent this community? For example, if someone who runs linux, adblockers, firefox with strict profile, etc, etc is being broadcast to these advertisers. Why would they want to bid for advertising space for that person at all?

• Phone numbers
• social security numbers

Stop making personal information into digital ids because when it inevitably ends up in some kind of data breach. These companies all throw their hands up saying sucks to be you.

You are right. I don’t use vivaldi, but gave it a try and sure enough it didn’t display. Well I would say most chromium browsers and electron apps do then.

To my knowledge they still use gtk for their linux integration, but Mozilla seems to have to stopped them from exporting their menus by default. I remember when that happend some years ago. Technically, you can still patch them unless they decide to migrate to gtk4 for their linux integration in which case patching probably won’t help or be as easy. Anyways, it is a hassle either way. Funny enough, all chromium browsers and electron apps do export their menus though and thus still work. However, I will continue to use firefox.

Meanwhile, I refuse to give it up, so I have been using less gtk4 apps.

Honestly, I don’t even believe these articles. At some point it just starts to sound like they are making things up.

Exactly. Another example of people who are on forums like this are worlds apart from people who know quite literally less than nothing about computers.