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sudo dolphin

Then I act like a Windows user and go there via the GUI because I didn’t feel like learning how to use nano.

Mad respect.

I love the stuff, but it’s an odd choice for a candy all about flavor variety.

anise / fennel have a lingering aftertaste. Maybe Glycyrrhiza glabra too? Idk.

You’re good these days until you want to do anything nonstandard.

By use case, the limited amount of things my parents do with their Future Shop still existed era Laptops got them comfortable with Fedora KDE pretty quickly.

Coming to a Linux distro as a Windows power user? I had skill issues.

PSA for Firefox/fork users, click the button to the left of the search bar after clicking blank space in the search bar, you’ll get a list of choices besides just your primary selection. You can add more:

If you’re using any of the myriad of apps based on Electron I have some bad news.

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God I hope so, I’m gunning for the goal anyways.

The type of case that plug has in the stock photo is not coming apart without extreme violence.

An OPSEC community would probably say no, so I probably don’t need to ask in those communities. But I’m curious about a (digital) pirate’s perspective on this issue…

Still committing OPSEC crimes, but I’m not as bad as I could be :P

I mean, the sources listed here are supposedly “safe” right? But honestly, how much would you trust these “safe” sources?

I think we’re talking about different sets of standards. Even with that in mind, my own “trusted” list is a much smaller handful of any list posted online. Trust in pirate spaces shouldn’t mean at face value and should be constantly tested with stuff like virustotal. It just means I haven’t been compromised or seen anyone else report back with an infection for a long stretch of time on a specific website. There’s always occasional breaches as malware enthusiasts test the waters now and then, usually not with a big/popular release. Stuff that could fly under the radar. Usually it comes down to whether or not that website has an active comment section or forum with active mods/admins who stamp it out continuously. I tend to prefer traditional bulletin board forums. rutracker.org or cs.rin.ru. I still don’t touch any file right away. I let other people be the “brave” lab rats. See if any squeal first. I tend to avoid niche application piracy entirely. Those seem (and have been in my youth) to be the virus hotbeds cracked by total unknown entities. Plus I don’t mind paying for independent / small company niche software. Often enough in those cases I can find a free open source alternative anyways.

It’s worked out so far. I haven’t been compromised in my adult years. But this isn’t some “do as I do” thing, it’s basically internet street smarts. Comes with experience and infections. I minimize risk and can trust my gut now, but I acknowledge it’ll never be risk free.

When doing sensitive tasks like banking or filing taxes, do you:

>Use a different OS on the same machine? (Dualboot)
>Or put the pirated content inside a virtual machine?
>Or just use a completely separate computer?

Separate computer. An otherwise useless old laptop running Fedora. OPSEC would probably say it’s not good enough because it’s on the same network as computers which installed pirated software.

And since PC is much different than a Smartphone:

Would the extra sandboxing on Smartphones make pirating games on a Smartphone much safer compared to on a PC? (Not that there are much mobile games worth playing, just curious)

GrapheneOS here which does sandbox better than most, but I don’t use my smartphone for anything sensitive. That’s really without trying to, it’s just not something I ever felt the need to use a smartphone for. I’m not as familiar with Android/Linux as I am with Windows. I know exactly where to periodically check for telltale signs of infection on Windows. I can still bend that OS to my will even as it gets worse for most end users. I’m less sure of myself on anything else. Working on that, HTPC is Fedora KDE spin now. Like you say, not much mobile games to play. I think I’ve bought like…3 ever. So, never felt much need to sideload. I usually stick to F-Droid and NDS emulators anyways. I have a Picross / Picross 3D addiction.

Non-installed/non-executable files such as .mp4 .mkv .mp3 .pdf .epub, are mostly safe right? I mean, you are using another program to opening it, not executing a file, there aren’t much attack vectors as long as the video player / ebook viewer is up to date right? (Or am I understanding it wrong?)

Usually, but sometimes there can be a flaw in a specific application exploited. I don’t think I know of any from media formats outside of maliciously edited ROM files smc or v/z64 for cartridge based system emulators like extremely outdated ZSNES or Project64 1.6 specifically.

Does AMD who makes their APU factor into this at all or is it just greed?

Hell, most porn boards are dead too outside of the main/most vanilla ones.

TikTok, Twitch, Youtube, etc etc did a number on people, training them to self censor like that.

No, there’s a few dialogue choices but they’ll all result in Hans hating you at the start of the game. I had to replay the intro for missed achievements (initially pirated to benchmark/see if I liked the game b4 buying) and did different choices up to the big fight. The intro is railroaded.

Basically like she said, you both have to happen to be horny in the moment anyways or it’s just a shit time. Use a safeword to stop when not into it, instead of actually saying stop. It’s usually just a roleplay fetish anyways.

Watching Doug DeMuro do this to an old Ford Exploder has been fun. Big learning curve, but I think anyone with a garage can pull it off.

No need thankfully. Unlike old.reddit, Lemmy displays fine and runs quick in Firefox.

If you can avoid 1st party Tesla service centers (not user friendly or pro right to repair like an Apple product and attitude) and deal with the “I’m not a nazi, just frugal” stickers, it could be worth any perceived risk.

I get the other view, that it’s quite wasteful to just destroy them. Not that it would’ve happened anyways. That wouldn’t be realistic, just progressive fantasies.

A European indexer would be nice!

It could be the best gadget in Earth and I still wouldn’t buy anything made by Samsung.

Their reputation is awful. Appliances and their televisions.