Yeah, you’re right. I guess a better way to put it would have been “don’t load 3rd party shit that I didn’t tell you to load”.

Adblockers aren’t total security, nothing is, but it’s no doubt they are a massive improvement.

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There may be genuine use cases to run a script, or whatever the attacker used. The problem is the browsers will auto-run stuff, the user isn’t aware and there’s no way to stop it. All ublock (and others) do is provide the missing security layer called “don’t auto run shit from the web”.

Another example why Unlock Origin should be considered essential security software, not just an “ad-block”.

Did he quit? I don’t see any concrete references online, just vague form conversations about it.

Microbloat is deprecating something? That’s new. Do AI next.

Yes, let’s blame the victim and not the data hording mega corps that advertise their crap to collect more data, make big promises, hide the better options, and actively undermine open source in every way they can.

I’m pretty sure the average person hears “open source” and think “oh that’s insecure software made by hackers, I need to only use software from trusted sources”. Using only trusted software is still a good idea, but unfortunately the trusted sources of 2002 have betrayed us.

I don’t remember if I did my phone on Linux or windows, but depending on your Linux install you may or not have drivers pre installed. That’s more of a result of Linux installing only what you need, vs windows installing everything someone might need.

As for wifi/updating, I don’t see it as a necessary step on a new phone. However, for a new phone it may be worth loading the stock OS, and running with it for a day or 2 just to make sure everything (WiFi, battery life, cell, BT, etc) actually works before you go crazy troubleshooting a problem that was there out of the box.

Once you do get Graphene installed, you’ll then want to check for any updates.

While having Finger print on/off is everyone’s personal choice, it is pretty easy to lock down the phone. You can spam the wrong finger a few times and it will force the pin requirement or if you press and hold the power button a lockdown button appears, either way it only takes a few seconds.

Despite what the news would lead you to believe, most people aren’t talking to police every day. That being said, if you are going to be in an area with high police presence, than turning off the finger print is 100% recommended.

Humans

Sorry, resistance is futile.

When adblox inevitably fixes this, you can block comments, and a bunch of other crap, on purpose with Unhooked

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recommended-videos/

One of them had a crush on the goth girl.

That ain’t metric

https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/anythingbutmetric

Me too, my biggest sink is Lemmy lol

I’d argue games are significantly better for development than video. Solving problems, learning game rules, reading game dialogue, separating fiction from reality, etc.

Yes, cartoon and videos have their place, but get off the meaningless shorts and gambling games.

Pretty sure MS made this a “standard keyboard” button, which could mean it needs to be included for the OEM to be able to put windows on the machine.

I know this is not helpful to your immediate issues, but here are a few suggestion to prevent it from happening again

• Don’t store important data in any default folder. Make your own folders, name them something so you know its yours and not a system folder. I like to start my folder names with “AA”, so they show up first in the list.

• • I’m honestly surprised SD maid cleared out the backups folder. I’m speculating here, but I think that backup folder is intended for apps to leave their backup files. All of your data, which isn’t associated with an app, got flagged as “leftovers” from a deleted app.

• Backup off device. If SD maid didn’t delete everything, a drop in a pool could have. The general rule is to have 3 copys. 2 in your possession (phone, computer, home server, USB stick, etc) and 1 off site somewhere (cloud, at friend’s house, etc).

• • The easiest way is to use a cloud provider like drive. Download the sync app to at least 2 devices and enable “keep offline” for the folders. However that is not necessarily the most secure. I like synching to sync all my folder to a computer. It has conflict protection, so if I happen change a file on different devices, it won’t save them over each other. The final method that requires the least setup, but the most discipline is a USB drive to copy your data periodically.

• For the data you described, it sounds like you would benefit from storing it all in password manager like KeepassXC. It encrypts all of that, and makes cloud storage a safer option.

Good luck with recovery.

I honestly use google messenger still. I know. It sucks. But it’s the only thing I found that supports RCS, group texts, and things like compressing photos over SMS instead of just telling there’s a size limit, ect ect.

Next month they’ll quietly add these “features” as background services under a generic name.

Rename the shortcut to notepad++2?

For regular wear, I like https://arcadebelts.com/products/hardware-alu-work-belt?variant=51798558671212 They have a bunch of other clasp styles that I havnt personally tired.

And for work; I like this one better than arcade, but it is larger vertically that normal belt. https://holstery.com/products/modbelt