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Me putting horsey sauce on everything 👀

I love using turmeric. You'd be srprised how well it pairs with so many things, plus it's very healthy. It goes naturally with a lot of middle eastern and south asian food, but you can also add it to sauces and soups for warm and earthy notes (if that's your thing like me).

As for spice mixes, I love Cadaver's greek seasoning. It's pretty simple (salt, pepper, organo, with a few others) and you can enhance pretty much anything with it

I have a 1 sided Möbius strip die that I call Predestined Choice. If a player wants to do something that goes against fate, or a deity that controlls time/events etc. I tell them to roll for predestined choice and hand them the die. More of a joke than a feature, but it could be the same for an all 5 sider

I stand by what I said, and you're misunderstanding my point. I'm not comparing mullvad to google, it was an analogy. Plus a browser handles processes in the Application layer (layer 7) in the OSI model, and therefore is a very essential part of the chain of services required for telecommunication. This is a first year cybersecurity concept.

Mullvad does collect a very small amount of info; see their privacy policy., especially in regards to payment. Seeing that most users probably don't use Monero, Mullvad does have a small amount of info on them. However, this is not what my point is.

While this is a very mininal amount of data, my point is that consolidating more information points into 1 company is a bad idea, no matter the company, and no matter the degree of data collection. You cookies, browsing history, dns record, etc. are all now potentially linked to your payment info as well as http requests, tls encrypted traffic, and network activity via the same company via both browser and VPN.

Side note: a similar opsec strategy to prevent this is defederation, which denies complete control to any 1 entity. (Lemmy!)

If mullvad ever became unhinged (which I doubt would happen, but let's entertain the thought), your entire internet access would be compromised at the browser and the network level, rather than just one or the other. You can break this up over multiple trustworthy applications to fix this. Another analogy would be to use librewolf on linux with Mullvad VPN, which are all tustworthy and come with a degree of separation as well. Now if mullvad were to go crazy, it would not affect your OS or your browser, since you were using librewolf and linux. There are less information points to work with.

I disagree; while Mullvad is very good with their no logs policies and collecting minimal info, it is generally good opsec not to centralize too many assets or data points into one company. Example: using android with chrome and google vpn, all your data is, from start to finish, in the hands of Google. Mullvad is miles better than Google of course, but I believe the same strategy applies

In my opinion it does offer the best in class for anti-fingerprint features out of the box. Personally I don't use it because I need browser addons. Adding addons to mullvad kinda defeats the purpose, as they will make your browser extremely unique. Librewolf + addons is more fingerprintable, but still less so than Mullvad + addons imo. I feel like it is useful to have both; Librewolf + addons for your daily driver, and vanilla Mullvad for extra anonymous browsing, web searches, etc.

As a side note too, I have also heard that using Mullvad browser + Mullvad VPN is a bad idea, because it gives Mullvad as a company more information points that might potentially deanonymize you. Part of the reason why Mullvad is so great is that when an entity subpoenas your info, Mullvad can say "we don't know anything sorry." So the more information points you give, the more that defense weakens, even though Mullvad itself is trustworthy

Calyx recently had some staff problems plus Google started witholding certain aspects of Android on the Pixel that complicated development, (which affected Graphene too). If you're thinking long term, Pixels are becoming another enshittification project by Google.

There are alternatives like the Fairphone, but they are overpriced and a little janky. There are also linux phones like the pine phone or the librem, but those still need polish. Mobile privacy is looking pretty bleak atm, but I'm hoping linux phones take off, and Calyx gets back in the game with CalyxOS eventually

I use an Xbox series controller on Linux, and it works great. I like the ergonomics and stick feel personally. 8bitdo also makes excellent third party controllers

This was never a debate. This is me calling out your hateful behavior. Ad hominem is exactly what I'm doing, because I'm not arguing with you, I'm calling you out on your bad character. This is supposed to be a place for uplifting content, yet all I see you doing is tearing people down

Looking at your mostly downvoted comment history, I can see you're the irrelivant, wrong and off topic one. If you don't relate or care about a post, stay on Reddit with the other bigots and haters. Don't relate to a post? Move on. Don't like religion? Keep the hate to yourself. Simple.

I found the Redditor

Like others have said, this is an age old question. Plato's Cave is my favorite rendition of the question.

The simple solution would be reason. Unless we live in a dystopia in full effect, like in 1984 or Fahrenheit 451, there will usually be multiple sources and perspectives on an issue or event, AI or not. Get info from all sides, and make a well informed personal decision with the info available. Never believe something initially and only do so if it is confirmed by multiple sources. Use logic, science, reason, ethos, or even faith as tools to seek and verify truth