ISOmorph

@[email protected]

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

I've never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be "no," although I'm not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless someone...

ISOmorph ,

I would still recommend turning wifi off when leaving home for privacy reasons (which can easily be automated). The process to identify if a network is trusted or not requires a handshake. So leaving wifi on makes you trackable by the wifi network operators and the apps on your phone with access to your wifi, wether you connect a network or not.

ISOmorph ,

Have you really never heard of GOG? It's an awesome platform. They allow you to actually buy games so you can 100% own them drm free. No Steam or whatever other game launcher is needed. Also they specialize in older games, so it's perfect for this use case.

ISOmorph ,

Well, games used to and still run on MS DOS, so Win 7 really isn't an issue.

ISOmorph ,

Actually the opposite is true. I don't know of a single game where the devs patched out something so it stops working on the OS it released on.

ISOmorph ,

I get the feeling you're just being contrarian on purpose now. Most, if not all games released on win 7 will still run on win 7 now, and will continue doing so forever, period. That's exactly why OP is asking for cool games from that era.

ISOmorph ,

r/atheism is leaking... This conflict has as much to do with religion as the apartheid in south africa had. This is just pure unadulterated racism, period. The best way to heal that imo, is literally fuck each other until there are only brown people left in the world.

ISOmorph ,

Nobara is great distro that includes nvidia fixes and has a KDE spin

The Best Secure Email Providers in 2024 ( blog.thenewoil.org )

Like it or not, email is a critical part of our digital lives. It’s how we sign up for accounts, get notifications, and communicate with a wide range of entities online. Critics of email rightfully point out that email suffers from a significant number of flaws that make it less than ideal, but that doesn’t change the...

ISOmorph ,

Let's see what europes e2ee ban will bring. Proton is one of the "high risk" services mentioned in the bills debate. Might not be too long before you have to host your own mail server if you want privacy in europe.

ISOmorph ,

You're misunderstanding the post. It's not about whether or not someone could guess your location from a picture. It's about the automation thereof. As soon as that is possible it becomes another viable vector to compromise your privacy.

ISOmorph ,

Privacy matters most in the individual case, with people who know you.

That statement is subjective at best. My friends and coworkers knowing where I live certainly isn't my concern. In today's day and age privacy enthusiasts are definitely more scared of corpos and governments.

isn't worth it yet.

You're thinking too small. Just in the context of the e2ee ban planned in europe, think what you could do. The new law is set to scan all your messages before/after sending for specific keywords. Imagine you get automatically flagged and now an AI is scanning all your pictures for locations and contacts and what not. Just the thought that might be technically possible is scary as hell.

ISOmorph ,

Germany is so incredibly scared to be associated with antisemitism since WW2, they're willing to obfuscate and support the genocide of an entire nation. This is beyond despicable.

ISOmorph ,

Read the article. France is the one trying to find a solution. Germany is to blame.

ISOmorph ,

I tried switching from Fennec to Mull a couple years ago, but every third site broke with it. So I reinstalled Fennec.

Torrenting exposes your public IP. In a country where government doesn't care, does that pose a risk?

I honestly don't believe I will have any legal trouble because I don't do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

ISOmorph ,

Torrenting/seeding works great with Mullvad, which doesn't have port forwarding

ISOmorph ,

I never understood how movie-web got so popular when services like FMovies exist.

ISOmorph ,

Be aware that kwallet will require you to enter your password if you auto-login. Kwallet usually saves your passwords for wifi etc. That's why auto-login with KDE doesn't make much of a difference in most use cases

ISOmorph OP ,

Not quite what I was looking for. I basically want to lock some apps behind an additional unlock process, ideally a password. The app I linked to does this with an unlock pattern.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • kbinchat
  • All magazines