This opt out is a positive, likely carved out by litigation, in a very very negative space for privacy rights.

It’s not, it’s less than Google used to do for these requests. In 2009, I requested my house be taken off streetview. They removed it by skipping mine and a few houses on each side.

Then they went down my back lane, so everyone got a good look at my back yard anyway.

Privacy today is a never ending battle, but Google started this nonsense a long time ago.

Good effort.

Your grasp of DNS needs some refinement, especially in distinguishing the concepts of IP, routing, and name resolution.

100% of the time.

My VPN turns on automatically when I leave my home lan. I don’t use split-tunneling, so all my traffic goes back to home before going to internet.

I mean, most of the success of Linux comes from the freedom to solve local issues the way you want.

There have come lots of issues solved with a departure from the project from a need that drove the change. Want Debian without systemd? Devuan.

So yes, literally, if it’s important to you, you can fork it. Whether that takes a big lift or not doesn’t mean you’re any less free to do so.

You make it sound like no one can just go keep the older hardware alive by forking.

Ansible certainly works here, most implementations I’ve seen are terraform with ansible or cloudinit.

Most of my stack is containers, so I personally prefer cloudinit and a handoff to ansible.

Mint is pretty polished and mostly stays out of the way. I think that was probably a good choice, looking at your style of shifting over components of your workflow.

If you are relatively new to this topic, it just gets worse as you dig deeper.

In 2012 or around there, it was discovered a few months before being implemented that Google intended to use the content of your gmail account to serve you “better ads”.

I was appropriately outraged, but no one cared. Even when I told them that it was tantmount to someone opening your paper mail to know what flyers to send you.

No one cared. And no one continues to care.

You can tell people all you like, but most folks just. Don’t. Care. That’s how they get away with it.

Yes, I was just talking to my kids about this. I sometimes think the web is just so bad now, I’m not sure i want to spend any significant time on it.

That was, of course the goal when I started degoogling 7 or 8 years ago, but I didn’t think I would be as disgusted as I am.

This has been going on for a long time in general, but Google recently stopped testing for non-chrome browsers altogether.

The lack of adoption is well understood: very few devices ship with Linux pre-installed, and most people don’t care about the os.

Come on, I like supporting n00bs, but this is low effort, bullshit trolling.

“I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas.”

And this person comes back to this linux community again and again with “my pirated games don’t work”. So many of us try to help this person, but they dont want a solution, they want to be disruptive.

That is correct.

However, this is a quasi-monopoly by google having quietly overwhelmed the space. Same thing for RCS messaging.

Neither push notifications nor RCS are proprietary, so there is a possibility to tear oneself from google here.

For instance, there are several free and paid push notifications services. Pushbullet is a popular paid one, not too expensive. I personally use https://ntfy.sh/, which can be self-hosted.

RCS is different because trusting the encryption keys makes RCS work, so there would have to be a critical mass of buy-in to use an alternative to google’s RCS implementation.

Oh, you are failing one over if the other fails? That’s not the same thing as configuring two interfaces with the same IP, gateway, at the same time, which is what I thought you were trying to do.

Is it possible to configure interfaces this way? Yes.

Will it work? No, not without bonding, and not with WiFi as one of the interfaces.

This has been the case since android 6. It just didn’t show you that message and would simply refuse to update non-play store apps.

Depends what version of the Surface, but I have a Surface Pro 6 and it still performs well. I use the Surface Linux kernel.

Those are considered firmware, yes. And these can vary in their installation as being updated via the firmware interface itself or some other update mechanism.

Some firmwares like on certain IBM thinkpads, my surface pro 6 and others can be updated directly via a Linux command called fwupd, but the firmwares must live in specifics public repositories.

This news means we’ll all have a much better time using fwupd to update these on dell and lenovo machines, but the firmwares themselves will remain proprietary blobs.

Coreboot replaces the bios/firmware altogether, and it’s not an easy task to get new ones, unfortunately.

This is talking about fwupdt firmware and patches, not uefi/bios replacement.

The trump comments aren’t the issue, it’s Proton’s acknowledgement that they will turn over data to the swiss police when asked.