Yeah… I’m currently really shocked and afraid of the ongoing push of chat control on Europe as well
That will be a major impact on privacy and without reason
And they just try again and again - they don’t even have a pause, they just start again and hope, that it will go through one time

Not sure how to escape it, and if, you are already labelled a terrorist
Like Spanish police looks if you have a pixel with GrapheneOS, because then they think you’re a drug dealer

Or years ago the apartment of a guy in Vienna got raided and all his work IT devices confiscated, just because he ran a remote VPS as Tor exit node

Not sure what we can do

I grew up in the internet and it was a great place.
Now people without any knowledge want to take this all away…

I was more thinking about 3rd parties using Microsoft, Google, Facebook logins for their shit, so can get tracked even better

But, yes, you’re right

…or a Google, Facebook, or… account

But yes

It’s a compromise.
It supports modern hardware well enough and the environment is good enough.
I do like the cleaned up state of BSD better, but the missing hardware support is pretty much killing that.

Also, all the machines I’m developing for and controlling are running some kind of RT Linux.
So I don’t have that much friction between systems.

So, you were putting down fences?
I guess, that’s good. Why did you stop?

I usually account for that, by starting to heat up before that

Maybe a thing of preference :⁠-⁠)

Since some months now we have a carbon steel pan and I absolutely love it, because it’s also very thin and adapts quickly to temperature changes

And also has the advantage to clean it quite roughly

Been there as well

And I tried to save a pan, but the fat and dust would never get of it, and I needed to throw it away anyway…

Because it’s cheaper and usually not necessary to have additional electrolytes

Edit: and I’m stopping here
This is getting beyond stupid
You guys defend an inferior system, because you don’t want to change, because it was always that way
At least, that I get from your answers

I can’t argue with that…

In Europe, I usually get a receipt and can write the tip on top of that, than I’ll pay everything and get the real receipt, including the tip

Why should I even need to check into a stupid app, I don’t even want to have?

It’s just so much easier to see the real paid amount at the end

Edit: and just saying, I’ve been doing that all my life, doesn’t make it better
“That’s how we’ve always done it” is the thing that stands against progress

If a system is better, than it’s better - and we can compare

So, what I’m up to:
Maybe I’m missing something here, which makes this blind trust better in some way, but nobody told me how

It’s just more work than it should be and it can be much easier

I just don’t understand, why USA-ians always defend this system

It’s much more effort and error prone

That’s the thing, it’s just so much more effort

Doing some bar hopping at night and paying with card, it becomes completely impossible to really keep track, if the waiter just upped the tip

Or maybe I just was to drunk and have written poorly

It’s just a shit system, without a way to directly verify on the spot

I’ll never understand, how it can be, that I don’t get a final receipt

Like, usually, I’m saying, I’m tipping (insert whatever), then in the US I’ll hand over my card and need to trust them to put in the amount I intended to

I have no way of directly verifying

And everyone was angry at my just for asking and the poor barkeeper cried…as she didn’t understand, that it wasn’t about her…

Felt like an ass, just questioning the system

I’m always getting sick, when the stress falls off
Body just demands its time…

But yeah, sucks, I’m with you

Well, not that I’m build like that, but there are some happy eremits

Those should be able to live their life, although it’s different from “the norm”

I’m still loving it

A remake with the same principle would be absolutely awesome

Edit: because of your comment, I’ve checked out, if there are still servers online
Seems to be :⁠-⁠)

https://www.uoservers.com/

It’s quite some time ago

I do remember something like, server events, the admin could trigger

Maybe I mixed that up with quests or I actually played a pretty late version

But yeah, UO was absolutely great :⁠-⁠)

Yeah, looking back…25(?) years, Ultima online was my go-to

You could just be making a living by running a shop and stuff.
In that sense it really was like a second world.
We had meetings there, where we discussed and decided together how to proceed with the city or some current problems.

The quests weren’t the main thing for me, much more the people there on this specific server

The fingerprint comes from your client.

So, if you use a browser, it will give away your operating system and quite some stuff more.
Pretty much every site you visit can do this, learn more about this here:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Persistent cookies can track you over different sites, that check for this cookie.
It’s not like the cookie has a life of its own, but different sites can check for that cookie and then they can report back to a server, so this server knows which sites you’ve accessed.

If you’re using a client app, like the official Reddit app, on your smartphone, it will have some permissions requested and that will be the data it has access to.
If it is running always in the background and has access to your location data, it potentially track your real world location.
If it wants to be linked with your Google/Apple account, it (maybe? (probably depends on the range of access requested)) has access to your real name.

But else, it can “only” gather data, that will help to identify you again - but this you is only your username.
Although I’m not sure how Reddit currently handles registrations, and if they now demand some real name.

But for example with browser fingerprints, they can with some probability identify the device again, but can’t really say who you are - like with a real name.

But every service you visit in the internet, independent of by browser or app, will see your IP - your numerical internet address, with which your devices communicate with any other device in the internet.
So, if you access a homepage, the web server will reply to your device by using your IP address, because that’s where the request came from and else it wouldn’t be able to send you the data you requested - like the data (text, images, code) of the homepage you want to access

The relation between your real name and the IP is known by your internet service provider (ISP) and for example law enforcement can get access to your real name, when they have your IP, but a typical homepage can’t get to that data.

So they’ll know that you accessed their homepage twice (and maybe some partner Homepages, with which they share this data), but they can’t really say who you are in the real.

For quite some time private IPs were also dynamic. So with every dial-in you’d get a new IP.
By now this isn’t the case anymore with many providers and connection types.
I’m still paying for a (rather) stable IP though, so I can access my server reliably with the same address - but you can also set up a script that updates a domain (like a www/“Internet” address) and you don’t need the IP, just like you can access google.com without knowing the IP of that server

Ok, that has gotten a bit off of topic, but I hope, it brought you some more understanding how those things work

If I got your question completely wrong, sorry.
Maybe I can give you better information, when you clarify where I went wrong
If someone sees, that I’m providing wrong or outdated information, please correct me :⁠-⁠)

Interesting how Telegram isn’t part of the attack
I guess, they already found way in or even have direct access