Youtube is Google. I don’t see a positive to handing over personal information to Google which is necessary to give them money, and just makes it easier for Google to have all information tied to one signed in account. Having no Google account is best.

Freetube is nice alternative to using youtube without an account, since things like subscriptions, playlists, history are saved locally without an account. And you can back up that data.

And with Google being behind youtube its better to avoid signing into their accounts anyways.

Also blocks ads, can download videos, sponsor block, dearrow, and block channels.

Sometimes freetube breaks and that’s when I’ll fall back to youtube with adblock on browser, but I won’t log into youtube. But, you can still use it to get your subscription feed and click on the video to launch to browser.

For mobile I use pipepipe which is a fork of newpipe with sponsorblock and channel blocking.

And using either of them doesn’t guarantee your data won’t get out anyways for products provided by corporations like the recent tiktok outcome showed where a billion dollar company would rather sell out than close down to protect users.

Its not me but the person I responded to that is using one phone, so their work may not provide such things.

Not a good idea to mix personal and work devices. I’d recommend getting a cheap budget phone to use for work.

Yeah, IOT is the version to choose at install with it getting 10 years of support compared to 5 years for the regular enterprise.

That looks like a nightmare.

Windows 11 ltsc is interesting in that its like a time capsule. More like Windows 7 than 10. Has no Microsoft store, no onedrive, no game bar. And has old Microsoft paint, calculator, and notepad from Windows 10 with no tabs.

There’s not really anything to uninstall. And it just gets security updates. Its a bare bones OS that feels closer to Linux because of that without the crap that even Windows 10 had showing tiktok and meta in the start menu to remove.

I think social media for profit played a large role in getting a new generation of ad acceptance, since most use the official app with third party apps generally dead.

So they are going to get exposed to ads using it on their phones, and then there’s the users themselves seeing social as something to try to use to make money so you got human being like living ads too.

Windows 11 ltsc comes with old Notepad. Looks like the same one from Windows 10.

Chat control was one of the most notable signs that this is an issue around the world with it still popping up over and over in the EU. This is a global fight.

I don’t get it either. I see millions of followers but their streams don’t give off a vibe of someone with charisma worthy of that type of obsession.

Most of them come off of as really obnoxious loud people ranting into a mic. Well…maybe it does make sense seeing the type of people society has rallied around to hold positions of power.

Bet they going to try to use it as an excuse to require age verification. They want to collect everyone’s selfies and IDs for online accounts.

No. That is just the nature of public social media. It comes down what you choose to share when it comes to risk, so the same amount as reddit.

But, userbases who behave more like old school forums are more likely to not share personal stuff like other social media such as facebook, Instagram, tiktok, etc which have drawn people who want to publicly catalog their personal lives.

For actual privacy that’s better left to encrypted private messaging like signal and so on. Social media isn’t the place to expect privacy.

Yeah, when I updated my controller I did it on another device I have windows dual booted on with nothing important on it just for that purpose.

Linux has been good about getting hardware working.

My wonder was more what is their level of native program support for Linux. Like 8bitdo to update firmware and set up extra profiles requires the Windows program to set up, but as a simple controller it will work on Linux just no real way to do extra stuff unless you dual boot.

I’m talking more about software and program level support. Not whether hardware itself is working on Linux, which Linux has been good at.

Like software to be able to update firmware on controllers, which doesn’t work on Linux. Controller itself will work. 8bitdo to update firmware and set extra profiles they only support windows.

So more about what their level of native Linux support is so consumers get the same level of extra features as Windows users.

Yeah don’t have my hopes up. Without it I don’t plan to give their GPUs a shot, since they aren’t saviors either with their state sponsored attack on notepad++ as a recent example. Just a potential hardware supplier.

So despite how bad hardware supply might get for consumers there’s still a level of caution I have and would need some level of a trustless system in place.

Otherwise I’d just opt for old PC hardware like retro console players have been doing for decades.

My hope for open source is that if something sketchy is pushed there might be a chance to catch as opposed to a proprietary approach where nobody has a chance of knowing what is going on.

Linux seems to be common to run things like servers, but is that the case for consumer hardware?

When I’ve looked at peripherals like keyboards and controllers linux support has been lacking. Of course, for keyboards I went out of my way to get qmk compatible ones to use via and vial instead so I dont need to run an exe of unknown origins to remap or update the firmware.

And how is it for games. Is there more of a push to support Linux for their games? Since like Genshin Impact they only officially support Windows. There’s work around with anime launcher which disables the DRM, but I wouldn’t consider that Linux support with it risking a ban. They have their own version of Finals now and Ive wondered if that has Linux support or at least have the DRM work with wine type methods instead of the approach Valorant took.

Hopefully Linux supported. That’s the main selling point of AMD GPUs right now for me, since there’s less problems with trying to get stuff like HDR running on it than NVIDIA.

I wonder why China is still for the most part ignoring Linux in favor of Windows. Like to update 8bitdo controllers they only provide a Microsoft program and no Linux version.

You’d think they’d be rushing towards pushing Linux adoption.