Are you saying I could get Linux running on my Fairphone 3+?

Mind you, yeah, 3G switch off would then make life difficult…

Enterprises just lease desktops / laptops and replace them with the latest version of Windows… my team used to be after reasons to get the latest OS / laptop, now IT have to prise them out of their hands

Ok, so setup a DC (in a VM on your linux laptop), install Win11 joined to that domain, create a local user, then leave the domain & destroy the VM…?

Or install Linux 👍🏻

Dunno how long you’ve been online, but you should’ve seen searching before Google came along… it’s still better now.

But, there was not much tracking back then…

+2 for the “coffee with ex-colleagues”… that’s how to really open doors.

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know

A friend almost got a new position created (for me) in a company that wasn’t even hiring!

Yeah, it’s a weird concept that I’m not sure how I feel about it…

On the one hand, I’m paying towards something which makes cleaning the ocean more cost effective

On the other hand, when I’m done with the shoes… do I… burn them?

Depends… if you use an offline password manager ( like keepass), you can ask it to autotype your credentials into anything… if that’s what you ask it to do (ie it’s not a fault)

Main point though: don’t reuse the same credentials across different sites.

They’ll get 1 site, but not all the rest of them…

Was that the one with the vertical task bar that couldn’t be changed??

Or is it better now…?

Proton VPN for Vivaldi is only available for desktop at the moment. We hope to include it for mobile in the future. https://vivaldi.com/protonvpn/

1. Agreed
2. Well, if it’s the free tier option, then I guess not a lot…?

I’m all for revenue income to support these tools - as long as I’m not the product - I just won’t be using this option.

Yeah, just read a bit more, where it’s implied that Vivaldi recommend you share your Vivaldi account recovery with Proton, which was the problem recently:

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/proton-vpn-for-vivaldi/

Allow Vivaldi to share your account’s recovery email address with Proton (only shown during first use).

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/vivaldi_proton_vpn/

Proton VPN is operated by the same company behind the encrypted email service, Proton Mail. The business found itself in hot water in 2024 after complying with a legal request to hand over the recovery email address for a Proton Mail account.

Hmm… this doesn’t sound good to me.

Yeah, I gave it a try and gotta admit, I really wasn’t sure what I was looking at when the results came back.

Reminds me of old 90’s search engines before Google (the good one, before it went evil) reinvented how a search engine should return results.

I’ll keep with them for a while as I believe in their goal (I installed the addon… not sure what it does…) but it’s a tough sell to anyone else at the moment…

Yeah, but -54DegC?! Minus fifty four!

Does it really get that cold in Finland?

LOL

Yeah, backups… Ok, cool, I’d not looked at Hetzner storage boxes. Thanks

I know this is a little off topic, but what’s a good alternative to Backblaze?

I actually think BB are doing good things, ie with their harddrive reports, etc. But, still, I’d like to consider somewhere more local for my data…

Yep, the small town butcher, bakery, etc.

Where we used to live, I could walk into town and buy local meat, organic veg and a warm fresh loaf of bread and it wasn’t that much more expensive than the (3!) supermarkets in town.

Considering I didn’t need fuel, then maybe it’s cost neutral.

The main difference? Well, much better quality food and the lives of those families…

It’s really just down to our choice to drive the price (read: quality / nutrition) down to the lowest possible… or not.

Just sayin’…

Or perhaps use local shops instead of supermarkets…?

Everything I get usually has it’s metadata updated / overwritten by Musicbrainz anyway

But, yeah, it’s slow going if you’re in a niche…

I’ve created / updated a few albums in there and it takes a few minutes to get it all done, but there’s some satisfaction in giving back

Kiwis, no… Australians… maybe (jk)

No, I’m a firm believer in meat and spice on a pizza: 'nduja, jalepeños and chorizo are my usual