in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff

in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff

in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff

tbh I was misusing upvotes on Reddit to save interesting posts, while the proper save function was instead used for NSFW ones. Here there’s nothing to keep track of my upvotes, so I can use them more freely :3

This is what Facebook answered after sending a “Request for Data Erasure” letter:

Hi,

Thank you for contacting Meta.

Based on the information you’ve provided, it looks like you’re trying to request the removal of certain content relating to you.

If you wish to ask for content relating to you to be removed from Facebook, please use the following form: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/259518714718624

Thank you, Privacy Operations

I’ve followed the link, but there’s nothing about deleting info I can’t manually access. I’ll try contacting the DPO right away, and see how it goes.

tbh I don’t really see the point of buying something by Microsoft just to install Linux

if it was possible, it’d be like buying an iPhone to install Android. You must’ve had a very good reason I guess.

P.S. Just checked what the form factor of a Surface Pro 6 is, and I think you’re right when you say there are not many alternatives. Also, it’s a pretty old device so it does make somewhat sense to me. Not that it matters, you can install whatever you want on your stuff lol

in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff

Neat extension for anyone who still uses YouTube (not me)
I would love to see how it fares with videos by that walking teratoma called “Mr. Beast”

Expert in what? Witnessing things and recounting them?

I love how much they want to shove ads down our throats, and I’m using Revanced like 😐

in the process of deleting every comment of my lemmy.world account, and permanently joining some instance that does not censor stuff

For me it’s mostly been visual stuff.
There are native packages, Appimages, Flatpaks, Snaps. Native packages are GTK or Qt-based, so you could potentially have five different visual styles at the same time. Everything can be fixed, except for Appimages, but it requires some degree of tinkering which isn’t always guaranteed to work. For instance, I was looking for a feed reader and tried Fluent Reader: it is an Appimage based on Fluent Design, so it looks completely out of place if you don’t customize your desktop to make it look like Windows. Then I tried Akgregator: I picked the Flatpak version, and it was a complete mess even when using Flatseal (some backgrounds black, others white). Also, without proper configuration, the cursor theme may change according to the aforementioned app categories.
One last thing you may not like are icons. Most distributions come with some custom icon theme, which of course cannot reasonably apply to all applications out there: those that are not supported need to provide their own icon, which could look very bad depending on the desktop environment. For example, on Cinnamon they were very jagged, like their resolution was too high. This probably also depends on the application.
Another thing I usually notice is how slow the mouse wheel works in some apps, like Appimages for instance. And in general there’s no way to change the amount of lines scrolled per wheel click at OS level, while apps rarely give you the option to customize it. Firefox does though, and for me this mean I had to run Bitwarden, Telegram, WhatsApp, a feed reader all inside Firefox. Thanks but no thanks.
I’d say no particular changes are necessary to use Linux full time, you should just turn a blind eye to this stuff.
P.S. Also, everything looks way too large w.r.t. Windows. I tried Thunderbird on both systems, and for some reason the delete icon is 50% bigger on Linux (using the same density option)

After every meal, which could even be four times a day. Floss (or oral irrigator) and mouthwash before going to bed

Sounds rough, good thing I’m running Linux instead of Linix lol

Very interesting. To be honest, I was thinking of buying the 512 GB one, because I’ve been loving matte screen protectors ever since I found out they sell them. I would probably skip screen protectors altogether if the display wasn’t touch enabled, but since it is my hands are tied…
What about “faster” vs “fastest” storage though? How much of a difference does it make? Please keep in mind I would not feel incredibly comfortable opening it up, at least not until the warranty is valid (and even then I wouldn’t really trust myself)

EU
Adding this info to OP

What about this? https://www.jiraphan.com/blog/Force-download-SharePoint-video-steaming
Windows isn’t strictly needed ofc

Unfortunately that’s not how it usually works with major companies, and I learned it thanks to some post on Lemmy.
Look for “EEE”, or “embrace extend extinguish”
Alternatively you can read the following comment in this very post: https://lemm.ee/comment/776049

Someone should point them to what happened over at r/assholedesign
I would, but I don’t know how to do that without breaking the first rule

user_pref("browser.startup.page", 1) and user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "about:home") to replace the startup blank page with home.
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.enabled", true) to replace the new tab page with home.

user_pref("keyword.enabled", true)
user_pref("browser.search.suggest.enabled", true)
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.searches", true)
user_pref("browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.nonsponsored", true)

to enable search suggestions (I’m using Brave Search).
user_pref("privacy.resistFingerprinting", false), but I don’t remember why exactly. The biggest inconvience of setting this to true is websites preferring light theme, but there was also something else… not sure what tho
user_pref("privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing", false) to avoid web pages being smaller than the actual window size.