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i have a 2017 macbook on which pop won't install (installer crashes). so it runs ubuntu. the experience is maddening compared to my (non-system76) pop box

i think it's a three-way problem between asus bios, ryzen, and linux kernel. i had a similar problem that was pinning my PN51 to kernel 5.19.16 (in my case, though, i didn't get a garbage screen, i just got a hard freeze).

i am deathly afraid of bios upgrades, but i swallowed hard and took it - and then the sleep problem went away, and i went back to floating on kernel 6.

but i just got a fanless enclosure, and once i flipped off the fan monitoring, sleep stopped working again - now it hard reboots by itself without any obvious clue in the logs.

the fanless life is more valuable to me than sleep - i have an ssd and don't run persistent services, so i don't care enough to keep fighting it. but there's definitely a tussle in there.

i agree, but my unpopular opinion is that mozilla has also proven this repeatedly, with nothing and nobody being universally better. privacy people love firefox, but i spend a lot of time with each major version's release notes figuring out how to undo the new telemetry (increasing integration with pocket, firefox suggest, location that won't turn off).

my threat model is 'they're all evil, including mozilla', so there are additional rings around everything

i left a big comment regarding this in another thread, TL;DR combination of brave on desktop and a lot of non-brave things on android, privacy browser + mull + DDG

https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/comment/84466

inside the addons page: eBay is port scanning visitors to their website - and they aren't the only ones

that one is very interesting if one has any coding background

appimages just got less easy…

i don't know which update did it - i think it must have been os-level (i run pop_os, derived from ubuntu) - but appimages silently stopped working. double-click, nothing. finally i looked in the log out of desparation, which said 'appimages require fuse'.

more accurately, appimages require fuse 2 and the os had just upgraded to fuse 3. the fix is to heat-seek libfuse2, and don't mess with any other fuse-related package as things can start wrecking themselves:

sudo apt install libfuse2

originally seen on an omgubuntu post

i believe one can't stop collection, only aggregation, so use different platforms and different emails - and critically, a device that actually meets your needs - and hope for the best. i have a garmin with an email on a domain i own. my phone is android, using a google profile that's empty of any voluntary info and tied to a gmail address used for nothing else.

it's child's play to aggregate this, but otoh, two companies will work to combine the data only if they have a common goal.

i did end up going back to namecheap, where i already had an account. i'm trying not to create new relationships with businesses that heavily use recaptcha, and with porkbun it's part of the login process

damn, automatic whois privacy and easy let's encrypt certs - that does look legit

just like heaven could have its own thread, practically its own community

i had run across this report some time back - it provides some hard analysis behind the "both leak but android leaks more" theory

Mobile Handset Privacy: Measuring The Data iOS and Android Send to Apple And Google

retrieved from doug leith's web site, at trinity college in dublin: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/

that tripped me up too - but it's just the web demo. if you install it, your browser doesn't matter