Using an image with a watermark will get you sent legal threats or fines.

Any idea how well verified the images are on those sites? What’s the chance that one with copyright gets uploaded and I get hit with a giant fine for using it?

Absolutely hate it, I just close tabs I’m interested in reading if it has AI generated images.

Well one advantage is you can just use this tool instead of needing to use each website or app individually, it saves a lot of time that way.

Also might as well have one less company collecting data on you, vs using a commercial closed source social media management tool.

Could try Fedora based like Bazzite or just regular Fedora. Obviously a sample size of 2 isn’t saying much, but Bazzite is less buggy with the hardware on my HP laptop, and my destop with an Nvidia GPU.

Often the hotkeys on laptops for screen brightness, mute, etc will either not work or be wonky, on my HP Elitebook on Debian distros the brightness keys both mute the speakers instead, they work fine on Fedora though.

I would just make an IG account if it’s being a large obstacle, you probably don’t have to install the app as you can do most things through the web browser.

I’ve found if a game has performance issues at launch it’s not going to get better later on, maybe slightly, but generally it’s an issue that won’t get fixed.

Yeah I mean even if it was trained specifically for that, they often will still be incorrect because they don’t actually understand the concepts they’re presenting.

Oof, contacts being leaked is a bad one.

The one that comes with your DE is generally just fine, unless you’re a serious terminal user.

One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such

I think that’s a quick way to nuke your install, LLMs are generally wrong about what commands to run and don’t understand enough to know when something is dangerous. All it takes is changing one wrong file and everything breaks.

If you’re a casual privacy user, then accepting monero and making accounts with no personal info isn’t really something to be concerned about having.

Instead I would use a well known VPN with audits done that is shown to not hold logs, like Mullvad.

I guess the next best thing is a cheap used Pixel and flash it yourself, then you’re recycling!

I’d say if you have a relatively clean phone such as a Pixel or another one with minimal bloat, and install a ROM that comes with all the google apps and everything, then the benefit is probably fairly minimal.

But if you do a degoogled ROM then it’s a huge difference. Stuff like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS.

Or if you have a phone with a ton of bloat and additional crap added like Samsung or the many Chinese brands, then even a ROM like LineageOS with google apps would be a big improvement in where data is getting sent.

It’s more that I have to re-enable scripts on most websites, so it’s not giving me much benefit.

Yeah alt+select doesn’t work 100% of the time too so the extension sounds nice lol

Yes ublock will just completely block/remove all tracking and annoyances, plus whatever other filters you enable.

uBlock Origin is a lot better.

Privacy Badger can actually be detrimental because it makes you more unique while adding basically nothing useful.

BTW for plain text, ctrl+shift+V pastes as plain text.

For copying link text if you hold alt and drag you can select text without activating the link, then ctrl+C as usual.

Make sure tracking protection is set to strict in the settings.

Otherwise you only really need uBlock, other extensions can be useful but the more you add the more unique your browser is and stands out more.