We can call it HATE, yeah. There’s not a day when this OS is not my way.

Basic, plain Windows 10 Professional installation, nothing fancy. If it was not the gamers, it would have died long time ago.

ventilating…

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      I am aware of all the problems in Windows, avoiding even to connect to MS pages, because MS site is the worst tracker and spy nightmare in the web, worse as Google, MS even use keylogging and mousemovements to profile the user. But this doesn’t take away from that and you can keep your privacy within an acceptable range, if you need to use Windows for whatever reason, if you’re being prevented from connecting to the house and blocking media that try to do so. Leaving it as it should be, a platform for applications, without further ado.

      Of course, it is recommended to use Linux and there is no problem using it in dual boot, which is the best and **only **solution for those who need to use Windows. I am very aware of the problems of privacy on the network and I know how to keep it as much as possible, but I do not have many illusions that 100% privacy and security is possible on the network, it would be childish to believe this. I use Vivaldi simply because it is the browser that best suits my preferences and needs out of all the browsers that I have tried, practically all of them, and because I know that it offers good privacy, despite the UI script that is auditable but proprietary, because I also know that it has nothing to do with the privacy of the product, it depends solely on the developer or company, regardless of whether it is FOSS or not. I have known the Vivaldi devs for 6 years and I know their ethics regarding users, because those who can, actively participate in the community, including von Tetzchner himself. They even work on Sundays if there is a bug, to send a fix as quickly as possible. I don’t know of many other companies that do. This is what is important for me, if for you it is FF or some fork, better for you, I have it as a second browser, apart from some others.

        • Zerush@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 years ago

          Don’t misunderstand me with the privacy, when you go online not even with VPN and TOR you are protected 100%, there are to many high tech tracking and profiling used by big tech and goverments (test it in Browserleaks and you will see, and Browserleaks only use the most important methodes). The user can only make it somwhat more difficult to profile him, more, he can’t employ full protection, because it will brake most of the websites which will stop to work properly. Adding naturally that the user himself is the biggest privacy hole. Nothing to do with communism, but with the greed of Big Companies which dominate the web. apart of countries which intercept sat and undersea cables (Echelon, bulk interception, etc.).

            • Zerush@lemmy.ml
              1·
              2 years ago

              I know these and also that browserleaks only checks the most habitual methods, there are a lot more and more sofisticated used. But for me is enough, when browserleaks show me wrong results or N/D , what can be expected with an acceptable protection. You can think to go completly as ghost in the web, but don’t trust, a lot of goverments and big companies also know these methodes and invert millions to track you, independent what you use with your humble PC. Even more so in the current cold war with Russia, which also takes place, and a lot, on the web, with the best hackers in the secret services on both sides, where a connection that is too private and encrypted can even be very suspicious, putting you in the center of attention. As I say, it is always a search for compromises, between reasonable privacy and what really makes sense, at least if you are not a criminal or a periodist in a dictatorship (The big drug lords prefer to use paper notes for their communications), without restricting yourself too much in browsing, not being able to access some pages, why they block you or do not work, which is very likely with too many privacy measures, I know.

                • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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                  2 years ago

                  I quite agree with this. I am old and retired with many very diverse interests with a fairly massive use of the network. I know the traps that the user can fall into in his conviction of being safe and anonymous and I also know the limits of what is possible to blur his traces…and I know that this is becoming more and more difficult, while the big companies are allowed to brazenly spy on us with the dirtiest tricks. The user’s creed that is as absurd as in the movie Independence Day, of conecting a crappy laptop into the computer of the Alien Mothership, of a race millennia more advanced, to insert a virus. Maybe you are more anonymous than someone who uses Instagram or another Zuckerbot or Google crap, but don’t get your hopes up too much, they can write your resume without problems.