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Is it a new action from them? I’ve been reading a lot complaints about it lately.

If they’re banning people for using VPN, they’ve reached a new low. Not that I care though… Reddit is just a shadow of what it once was.

Not saying you’re wrong, but I wonder how many people that were willing to pay 250 dollars for lifetime would actually pay more than 3 years of subscription.

I believe most lifetime buyers do it for FOMO. They pay it believing that they won’t ever need to worry about it again and that they’re making a good or safe deal… but most of them won’t be using Plex that much anyway.

With this price hike Plex is basically killing the lifetime option. Sure, they might get more subscribers at first, but in the other hand they will also lose a lot of impulse buyers that will hardly pay them 250 dollars in monthly subscriptions at the long run. At least, that’s what I think…

Considering the average time for game development nowadays, these studios barely had time under the Microsoft umbrella. It’s just ridiculous they’re getting shut down already.

Nope. Distrobox does not offer any meaningful protection, since its purpose is to integrate with the system. It’s basically meant to make downloading and managing packages from different distros, on the same system, much easier… but it’s not meant to protect and isolate your device the same way that Flatpak or other type of containers do. That baing said, stop relying on Distrobox as a safety measure, and check your recently installed and updated packages since 9th June, to make sure you were not infected.

I was starting to get too confident in AUR. Thankfully I wasn’t affected. Just replaced all possible AUR packages to their respective Arch and Flatpak alternatives, with exception of very few or from the ones I had no option. But will definitely check before updating them, and will only install AUR packages as a last resort.

No. If it came from AUR, it doesnt matter the method you used. You should check all the AUR apps you recently updated (from 9th to 12th June), and compare it to the lists. Only AUR though… Arch official repos are not affected by it.

Proton Mail is operated by Proton AG, which is a for-profit corporation.

That being said, even though Proton Mail is probably more trustworthy than Google and Microsoft services, it’s still handled by a for-profit corporation and therefore can’t be fully trusted.

Nowadays if something is owned by a corp I wouldn’t recommend anyone to get too attached to it. Use it while you feel it’s worth, but prepare to swap for something else eventually.

In other words: don’t ever fully trust your data to company owned software, and always look for a backup solution.

Not much, really. I’ve heard Zen had memory leak issues on Windows, but I was using it on CachyOS and didn’t bother to swap. But I use Waterfox on Android and on Windows, and I like it very much.

If I had to choose just one nowadays though, I would probably stick with Waterfox. I like Zen, but sometimes it feels more experimental.

The only Microsoft service I was using was Game Pass. For me, it was never cheap… the price was fair for what they offered. But after they doubled it I cancelled immediately and never looked back. And I would not, even if they decided to drop the price back again to what it was. Because now I know it is unreliable, and they will raise the price again as soon as they feel comfortable.

Typical of MS though, so that didn’t surprise me at all. They just can’t keep a reliable and fair priced service for long. As soon as they believe they can fuck people up, they do.

But thankfully nowadays we have so many options, to whatever product Microsoft offers, that’s actually not as hard to get free of them as they might think.

Mozilla Firefox has gone downhill…

Not sure if they’re the best options nowadays (balancing privacy and usability), but I’ve been enjoying Waterfox and Zen for a while and don’t see any reason to go back to Firefox.

I don’t know if Ubuntu has fixed it, because trying to enforce their Snap store was intentional. But I can’t say for sure because there have been years that I don’t use it.

But yeah, for anyone using it, I’d recommend to just remove Snap entirely, since it’s totally unnecessary and goes against pretty much every Linux core concept.

Or just use something like Kubuntu or Linux Mint, that have Ubuntu under hood but are more community driven instead of relying on Canonical.

Thank you! That’s the difference between rhetorical freedom and substantive freedom.

What gets me is how people will look at China’s poverty alleviation (actual material liberation from hunger and desperation) and call that “authoritarianism”. Meanwhile, the US lets people die of treatable illnesses, go bankrupt from medical bills, and drown in student debt… and for some reason that’s perceived as natural.

And on wealth inequality, you’re right. The CPC doesn’t let billionaires write policy the way the Kochs, Bezos, or Musk do, which shouldn’t be acceptable anywhere in the world.

Mostly avoid downloading and running packages from sources you don’t trust. And if you’re going to run something you don’t fully trust, try to run it sandboxed (like firejail or a vm, for example). Linux is generally safer than Windows because a lot of malware are created to exploit Windows weakness… also, if you use Flatpak (sepecially verified ones) or your distro package manager, you will hardly get infected.

I disagree with the anti-west part. Anti-USA (as government or as an example for ethical governance) then, sure, but with good reasons.

And regarding pro CCP views, it depends on the context actually. You can’t just throw everything on a bubble… The thing is that for a LONG time we have been fed by North American or European media the idea that China = Evil and USA/EU = Good, but nowadays, thanks to the expansion of information and people accessibility to other sources (such as the Fediverse), we know that’s simply not true at all.

When you see, for example, powerful countries allying to Israel genocidal acts, maintaining civilians under siege for almost 20 years, or just turning their back to it as if they can’t see the fucking obvious, you realize these governments are full of shit.

But it’s not that people here are anti-west, or that they don’t like western people as a whole. In fact, I’m sure most of users here are westerns. We just don’t like how big western governments deal with things, and here people can actually talk about it. When you say some of these things on platforms such as Reddit or X, the rigged algorithms will sure punish you.

This, AND the fact that companies usually don’t give a flying fuck for developing countries. They want to sell their services for USA and European markets, and then they just make it “available” for the rest of the word with absolutely no regard for the monetary reality of each of these countries. You can’t expect people to think it’s fair to pay 70 USD on a game, for example, or 15 USD a month on a subscription service, when this translates to 30% of a minimum wage somewhere else.