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Hate Windows, haven’t used it in decades but I did always like the Windows 2000, XP and Vista Recycle Bin icons.

I’m a big privacy nerd too but I still keep up with the news.

One thing I’ve noticed not using TikTok, etc. is that people will flat out tell me things that are objectively false: this goes for both liberals and conservatives. I block fake news and disinformation so many times links to those websites will just return DNS resolution errors.

The privacy stuff does get tiring sometimes. People try to link me to Google-owned platforms that I have blocked. I tunnel my end devices to a VPS in my country, then I use ECMP routing between three tunnels routing through different countries. Those three are access through yet another double-hop VPN with both hops in-country to lower suspicion of foreign-bound traffic from my VPS.

There are some tasks that are impossible to achieve without bypassing the VPN though.

In the end though, I feel my internet experience is extremely “clean” compared to others’. I don’t deal with ads, tracking, bad privacy laws, cookies, etc. Both my ISP and cellular company only see encrypted data and that’s it.

Isn’t this beating a dead horse? We’ve already figured this out as a society. It’s time to move on to solutions.

You’re not talking to me and I’m no MAGA supporter but I blocked you—too much crazy for me.

Why not just deploy your own server anonymously in some jurisdiction where you can get away with this? Why harass the mods at all? This isn’t Reddit.

If you’re going to screenshot at least crop? But why not just save the original image and avoid (potentially) recompressing it?

I actually know Katakana and a limited amount of Japanese so yes, I know what you mean.

Great point about phoneticized loanwords though!

Tequila is actually a phonetic word in Spanish, lol

Usually I use Safari’s Hide Distracting Elements feature to remove it and move on with my day, but I’ve also got a totally overkill blocking DNS server (as well as the AdGuard browser extension).

As an American I route my internet traffic through Switzerland so 99% of websites give me the “reject all” option.

Nothing too fancy, just an AudioQuest DragonFly Red. I even have a Lightning to USB-A adaptor just for using it with my iPhone.

When I used to donate there was an option to transfer the funds from the card via ACH. Of course, ACH is slow as hell and another big problem of its own.