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This excuse for an article is the hardest read for me since along time. I probably have an AI summarize it for me.

In the whole ~30 years I’m using computers now I probably owned 2-3 computers in total. I wouldn’t say I’m wealthy or spend too much money on PCs, I just get the best hardware available and use it as long as possible.

Yeah, I admit, it was quite expensive. I never updated one single bit of it, except switching to a 1080 one or two years after buying it, though.

8 GB of VRAM and 16 GB of RAM … those are the specs of my almost 15 years old legacy machine. I doubt that the Steam Machine outperforms anything made in the last 5-10 years.

The USA are a circus only existing to entertain the rest of the world.

Yes!

Yes, all access to outside sources is blocked by default and users are asked on a per URL basis with the author manually requesting each URL access including a reason – with occasional manual validation from Mozilla staff.

They should make it a requestable permission.

This is the only valid answer!

has led to a lot of the same moderation rot on Lemmy

Almost as if the platform wasn’t the problem.

Next news: Quantic Dream lays off 50% of all staff due do bad sales of Spellcasters Chronicles. 🤣

Oh boy, when will they learn …

Don’t worry, it’s just fearmongering because the cannot fingerprint your browser and want you to turn of the privacy features.

So they only address legacy gaming setups?

Let me introduce you to UY Scuti.

If you have money to spend, look for a Microsoft Surface. It’s amazing how good they work with Linux, despite being a Microsoft device designed to run Windows.

Their build quality is really good, too.

Getting a burner phone and account and only tun it on when you want to check the messages is a good start. Do not use any of your real information.

When I left FB a decade ago they didn’t force a phone number for the messenger, thy basically just requested all possible permissions.

Navigation elements should not change their position or disappear.
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Change my mind.

I can’t go back to other browsers now, they’re all too cluttered

Cluttered? What do you mean?

Made the window smaller to not create a huge screenshot, but this is what my browser looks like.

Anything more than that, and I would be really annoyed.

Security … Depends. If you want to sell the SSD, then yes, wiping the SSD is advised. You don’t need complicated random multiple-write patterns. Just make sure to wipe everything (keywords: wear-leveling, cache), you could use blkdiscard for that.

Performance-wise nothing noticeable would change. Physically, SSDs are fast enough to modify the charge traps to store the bits as needed to store files regardless of what’s in those traps (that’s quite a rabbit hole).

If you plan using the SSD for your own, you don’t need to wipe it, just repartition as needed and create the file systems in the partitions. What I do, is writing some data to the storage to destroy the partition table (dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/XYZ where XYZ is my target device – and then leave it runninf for a few seconds).

Since you’re using encryption, the common tools only see garbage and no data (i.e. file system). So simply don’t decrypt and work with the mapped partition but use the device directly.

How can you only have 15 Tabs open?

I use bookmarks and close tabs I don’t need any longer.