I understand that, but what they do with user data is governed by their Privacy Policy, which again, is unchanged. The ads they buy are the same Sponsored ones that show up on blank tabs—the ones that have been there since before they made that change.

They made the change to the ToS, because a California law expanded the definition of “sale/sell” beyond what most people understand the word to mean. There’s enough vaguery in the wording of the law that the way Firefox works, it could land Mozilla in hot water the way the ToS were worded. It’s stupid, Mozilla did probably the worst job possible communicating why they were making the change, and the internet freaked out.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t leave. That’s up to you. I’ve been running LibreWolf since then, because a company that has $37M in investments and pays their CEO $8M should have the means to have a decent marketing team, one that could warn them it would be stupid to abruptly cut out a section on selling user data. However, it’s simply not true that they’ve suddenly joined ranks with the likes of Google.

Again, do what you want, but I hope people do it because they’ve been informed about the facts, not because the internet brought out the pitchforks again.

Oh, cool. That’s not unlike how I use addy.io. I have aliases for individual services that use the subdomain they gave me, and they forward to my Tuta address. If I want to leave Tuta and go to Mailbox.org (for example), I just have to tell addy.io to forward to that new email.

Thanks for the explanation! I’ve been thinking about getting my own domain.

Thanks for raising awareness

It’s what I have done. They’ll work slower, but you’ll get a sense of what they can do, how hard it is to do things, etc.

When you’re ready, I think all but Bazzite have Live ISO options, so you can see what it’s like on bare metal. When you’re satisfied, install your favorite!

So with a custom domain, do you just have your domain and add it to SecureEmail as your address? Then if you want to move, you just cancel the SecureService and add your domain to another service?

Thanks! I appreciate you sharing your experiences

Kinda my thought, too. Was using Google for years and never hit the 15GB cap. Seems like overkill.

First, gaming distros are vanilla distros with opinionated tweaks and additions to support the hobby of gaming. It might be as simple as having Steam pre-installed to as complex as having unique kernels or custom package repos maintained by the distro maintainers.

But that doesn’t mean vanilla is always the best choice, because not everybody wants to spend time optimizing everything. Some distros even have easy setup scripts for otherwise complex installations (like for Davinci Resolve). Don’t feel like you need to pick vanilla to be a “true user.”

Some easy to set up Distros for gaming that are ready ootb:

• Bazzite: Fedora Atomic, practically bulletproof, just works. Downsides are that adding new packages is not the same as other distros, and there’s a learning curve to it beyond flatpaks. Some software can’t be installed at all if it doesn’t come as an RPM or AppImage (Private Internet Access’s VPN client, for example).

• CachyOS: Arch with an optimized kernel and optimized packages. Comes with some easy-install scripts. Tool to easily select different kernels and schedulers. Currently another very popular choice. Like the above, this just works. There’s some debate about how significant the optimizations really are, but they’re there nonetheless.

• Nobara: Traditional Fedora. Like Bazzite, just works. Has a custom update manager that acts as a GUI wrapper for your usual cli tools. Maintained by GloriousEggroll, a widely respected user that maintains the GE versions of Proton.

• PikaOS: Debian (not Ubuntu). Combines the philosophies of Nobara and CachyOS and puts them atop Debian. Better setup scripts than even CachyOS, a more user friendly update tool than Nobara’s, and has the same kernel selection and scheduler tools as CachyOS, plus the same package optimizations. Don’t let the fact that it’s Debian underneath fool you. This has the latest kernel and drivers.

I would try all of those in a VM and see what you like about them. They’re all unique and worth a look.

ETA: all of these have Nvidia versions, so all of them should work with your card.

A very good point. I haven’t handed out the Tuta address, and everything goes through Addy first, so moving would be easy.

Oh, good to know. I tried to find where that was made clear, as I suspected that might be the case. Kind of kills the deal for me, at that point.

Thanks!

That’s fine. Do what you want. I’m not here to judge your choices, just point out that Mozilla only fucked up the communication, not the policy itself.

Right? I just do my best to ignore the bot and only enter queries any first year CS student would know. The rest comes from my memory and a few bookmarks I have saved.

Animal Well is on my wishlist, so I’ll look forward to that someday!

Neat!

Thus far, the local models I’ve worked with have gotten a C- on coding, but an A+ on bullshit.

I work at a company that won’t allow us to use a search engine but has a local model we’re allowed to use, and this is a pretty apt summary.

If you’re referring to that fuckup with the ToS or whatever, that’s not what they’ve started doing. You can verify this by their Privacy Policy, which hasn’t changed in almost a year.

But if you are pointing to other examples, I’m open to learning.

It was, imo, the founder of the Vania part of Metroidvanias, so they didn’t have the benefit of standing upon many shoulders. Hollow Knight is a great spiritual successor to that endeavor, and I agree that they took much of what made SotN great and improved upon it.

It’s interesting watching people get so excited by HK, I have to wonder if that’s what it was like when SotN and successive games came out.

Thanks!

Seeing it loop back on itself 10+ hours later is something I almost never see anywhere else.

Do give Symphony of the Night a try sometime! You’d probably enjoy it.

Germany has multiple temporary exceptions to the Schengen regulations. One has been on the books since 2015. Two more were entered more recently.

Countries who participate in Schengen are allowed to have temporary exceptions for internal borders for exceptional circumstances, as determined by the country itself. This is within the guidelines of Schengen, so OP’s story is not abnormal.

It’s good to know for the sake of privacy, I suppose, if you didn’t know there were exceptions and you were trying to avoid being identified by specific governments. But unless you’re a person of interest to German authorities, they likely won’t care who you are.