only one idiot to blame in that case

1. yup that’s the same thing I was using.

2. I use linux mint, haven’t tried it on any windows system. tried on my phone and no browser can beat it, I’m totally 100% unique.

3. score is 75% for me too. on any other browser it’s 27%, even without any extensions so this is still a lot better. oh and I just assumed 0% was bad because it’s shown in red, but if it’s the opposite then js engine and mimetypes are the big giveaways as they have 50 and 20%.

4. it started at 55 and has been alive for a month. before I changed something in the settings it was 300. it still counts up when I refresh, open in a new tab, restart or even clean identity. can’t fool it. I suppose it wouldn’t matter as long as it confuses me with a few others too, I’m just not convinced it can fool google and meta.

so out of the box it blends in, but it still knows me even after cleaning the identity. in prediction section almost everything is red 0%, and it seems to know the browser is lying. if I use dark reader, I am unique.

the problem they will eventually solve is how to spy you better and feed you more AI crap

I use mullvad vpn, and I tested with mullvad browser, and it always detects me. doesn’t even matter if I use daita etc…something gives me away. unique fp and it sticks between refreshes and restarts. I recall my gpu being one giveaway but I’ll have to check that again tomorrow.

try creepjs with mullvad browser, 100% traceable. it will always know it was you even if you clean the identity and restart the browser. and I bet googles tracking is even more advanced.

I use libredirect, it works for piped at least. make sure youtube is turned on in services, and “redirect only in incognito” is unchecked. every now and then it might miss one, just refresh the page.

hmm robert is the only one in the family with fingers

I’m not going to recommend arch to a new user. flatstore is a blessing, but on mint not every flatpak app works. sometimes they won’t launch and you need to use the system package.

if you want to scan the the qr code from your phone screen, this app can scan from an image: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.example.barcodescanner/

I believe you will get a code that you can paste as virtual barcode to your bank app?

I tried mx for 7 minutes. it installed nvidia drivers and that killed it. off to the next distro I hopped, knowing the problem could have been easy to fix. shame, it seemed interesting.

I have tried most known distros but not bazzite, yet. might be the next one on my distrohop journey since everyone recommends it. hope it works better than fedora kde, it does not get along with my hardware AT ALL

the bike paths are perfectly good for even 30 km/h in my experience, I don’t go driving in the airport because I feel like I need to go 320 km/h…(but I absolutely would if that was possible)

1. the distro matters, but as a general rule, start with mint cinnamon because it’s easy and super stable. different distros use different components and they are configured differently, so if you face issues and incompatibility on mint, fedora may work better for example. for me it’s the other way around. also on debian or ubuntu based distros you have the biggest selection of programs available. not sure what packages you are referring to…just applications in general? it’s as easy as just installing or uninstalling them from your package manager / software center or whatever.

2. ubuntu is owned by canonical, I’d say avoid that. mint is derived from ubuntu, but it has a debian edition so it’s not threatened if ubuntu gets further enshittified.

3. I recently used kububtu for a week, something to note: it’s running very far behind, using plasma 5.27. in my experience, kde in general seems to have lots of customization but a lot of it is just broken. all the themes you can find, most won’t install, animations are laggy (I suspect nvidia issue). downvotes incoming, but that’s just my experience. it may work for you though idk. fedora official and pop use gnome, which I have very limited experience with, but I remember it not giving too much control to the user with customization if that’s what you’re after, also what’s with the full screen app launcher? in cinnamon you will find a lot of customization and it all works. it’s also very familiar to use if you’re coming from windows.

4. do your monitors have different refresh rates? that was an issue, I think that got fixed in wayland. x11 will not be your friend. someone correct me on this one if I’m wrong.

5. I stand by what I said in 3, but go ahead and try them in usb live environment and see if you find it okay to use. btw you can install KDE plasma in mint too, you’re not married to the DE that your distro ships with.

you are probably going to need to set up a virtualbox and use photoshop in windows, I hear it doesn’t work well in wine.

nope, they are well designed and maintained. I know because I rode them for two years on my ebike. I think they use roads because they want to go faster, so they block traffic on 60 km/h zone by going 40, which is way too fast for bike lanes.

ah, well that would be it then. couldn’t figure out how to get a newer kernel to install with it so I used xanmod…until it started giving issues too. the default one is good enough anyway.

mainline does not work on mint (at least on my end). it has failed to install any kernel, for like the last year.

in finland we have bike lanes everywhere, still these spandex people be cycling on the roads.

I fifth it. I want a framework.

show them a picture of zuckersuckers face and ask if they would trust him with your secrets