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Pretty sure banks have a pretty good track record of “keeping your money safe”. Why the fork would anybody trust banks to keep their money safe if they can’t keep your money safe?

I don’t really understand why that statement is even on there?

Unless you mean to argue some anonimity point, which I could agree with considering e.g. Monero would be more anonymous than a bank.

But safe? I’d say the bank is quite safe to store money.

Step 1: Get chickens

Step 2: add oats ( oat flakes ) to the pan with grease

Step 3: stir until they’ve absorbed the fat

Step 4: treat the chickens

Step 5: ???

Step 6: Profit!

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I think it’s MAC based, but I’m not sure

Specifically talking about the FireTV, 99% sure the app doesn’t have a Killswitch, I’ve checked. I use it all the time on PC and Mobile though :)

Ah! I can’t get a fire stick here so no experience with that.

Setting up the VPN on the router sounds great, but can home routers (I have Cox) flash VPN software on them (thought they couldn’t)?

The asus router I have has a feature called VPN fusion. I specifically bought a set of routers for my home that are in front of my ISP router because I wanted a single SSID and wanted to set my own DNS servers without having to specify them per device . They (ISP) keep restricting features on their router ( can barely do anything on them nowadays ). Also switching ISPs became easier as any config is done in my devices rather than theirs.

Also is it MAC or IP filtering (would I have to set a device to static IP) for deciding which devices use the VPN tunnel? How good is it about switching servers (like if a server I’m connected to is on maintenance or is overloaded)? Not too worried about the web issues, can always hop back on the regular Wi-Fi and use the app.

I THINK it’s Mac based, but I really can’t say. I named the devices on my router and they keep reconnecting as the same device. Either that or it uses some combination of info from the device to identify it.

E.g.: my work MacBook should switch MAC addresses every time it connects to a WiFi, but it’s consistently identified by my router.

Additionally, they have some routers that are supported by custom firmware ( asuswrt-merlin ). Mine don’t support it unfortunately. https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/

Protonvpn has a Killswitch: https://protonvpn.com/support/what-is-kill-switch

A kill switch is available to all Proton VPN users on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and iPadOS. Newer versions of Android now have built-in kill switch feature, as explained below.

Please note that our regular kill switch feature can’t protect you if you intentionally disconnect from a VPN server. However, the feature does protect you while switching servers with Proton VPN.

Our Windows and Linux apps now also feature an Advanced kill switch. In addition to protecting you from accidental VPN disconnections, this prevents you from accidentally using the internet without the VPN turned on, and it will persist when you shut down and restart your device. You will not be able to connect to the internet if you manually disconnect the VPN without also disabling Advanced kill switch.

or are you in a different scenario where that doesn’t work?

I’ve configured my router to set up a VPN connection to proton ( wireguard config ). I then decide which devices gonout without vpn and which with VPN. ( Default being with VPN ). If the wireguard tunnel happens to go down, the devices can’t surf the web.

RDBMS shines on getbyId queries. Queries where the value starts with should also work well. But queries where the word is in the middle of the value or column generally don’t perform well. Since it’s just for personal use that might not matter too much. If you’re querying on exact values it’ll go pretty smooth. If you’re querying on ‘deniro’ while the value contains ‘bob deniro’ and others it’ll be less performant. But it’s possible it works well enough for your case.

Elasticsearch is well known for text searches and being incredibly flexible with queries and filtering. https://www.elastic.co/

Manticore is one that’s been on my check-it-out for I don’t know how long. It looks great imo: https://manticoresearch.com/

Open search: https://opensearch.org/

Disclaimer: I haven’t really used any RDBMS systems extensively for years so it’s possible there are some that added support for full text searches being more performant.

Aleph also seems to be able to cross reference data between documents. I don’t think any of the ones listed above do this. But I also don’t know if this is part of your requirements.

Win11 start menu is a react native component.

Users report that clicking the Start button can spike CPU usage by 30% to 70% on at least one core, depending on the hardware configuration. The issue doesn’t occur consistently across all systems, with some users noting it happens in about 50% of clicks.

Quotes from: https://winaero.com/windows-11-start-menu-revealed-as-resource-heavy-react-native-app-sparks-performance-concerns/

If just one or those passwords gets leaked you might find a lot of other ones get cracked as well.

It may not be sites that you care about. But using a password manager is a lot less effort and a lot safer than whatever technique the average Joe will come up with.

Any password that leaks which could indicate a potential system ( e.g.: sitename in lower/upper/leetspeak) makes the whole thing even more vulnerable.

Just use something. Bitwarden, vault warden, keepassxc, …

Knowing my social circle I’d recommend bitwarden. Even paying for it costs a measly 10$/year, while the free version is very usable in itself. And generating passphrases or 32char passwords will be a lot safer than whatever the hell they can come up with.

Just avoid the default browser ones, big tech and LastPass.

How do you expect a degree to be worth something if the only proof they have of you taking the exam fairly is “trust me bro”.

If you take an exam for AWS in a managed center you do it on their computer with a person watching you on a camera and listening to your desk with microphones.

If you take the same exam at home you’re monitored by a remote employee constantly looking at you. You have to show the room you’re in to prove there’s nobody there.

If you don’t want the latter you take the former.

From my personal point of view I feel the school should offer a way to do the exam in person and on a device provided by the school which they know is secure if you so desire as a student. Perhaps that’s not possible in the college you’re attending. Or it’s a fully remote course.

In any case. They school needs some guarentee that you aren’t cheating. Either by attending in person, or by having a “secure browser”.

Secure browser meaning a way for them to check you aren’t just searching the web/LLM/course material for the answer ( or an external party helping/doing the exam for you ).

Unfortunately none of that is possible without looking at your room, listening to the environment you’re working in and have you work in a browser they know isn’t tampered with and isn’t being minimized/left unfocused to do something else.

If you’re worried about what happens with the recording post exam you’re better off asking them rather than assuming they use it for whatever. They likely have to store it for a certain amount of time before it’s deleted.

I don’t know about that specific browser. But there is something similar in use in schools here. Basically they know when you’re leaving the browser window ( e.g.: to open a text file or a different browser ). Other features probably are that they can monitor you through your webcam and/or listen to your audio as you are making the test. The reason is so you don’t have somebody under your desk reading you the answers. Or you don’t have your course book open while making the exam.

The school could honestly provide the alternative to go make the tests in the school itself under supervision on paper or on a school device.

It’s a secure anti-cheating browser, not a secure privacy/anonimity/hardened browser.

It’s not meant for day-to-day use. Only for making the exams.

You can always get a secondary cheapo device purely for the exams ( or an old laptop).

Le pr0n

Didn’t Vista get a ton of hate for its new UI?

You’d expect governments to sue over this. Instead they’ll queue up to buy the data

Nice doctor who reference :D

And using a simple system means that once somebody figures out the system, all your passwords become compromised potentially.

Ugh! Forking nerds checking my citations! Curses!

~ somebody in his cabinet - probably

But look at all these cost savings! I made the company profitable /s

Has it gotten a makeover yet? Last time I used it ~3 years ago it still looked like it was built in the early 90s.

It was functional, not a complaint about that. The super old design just got on my nerves.

Maybe one of these is interesting? I have no actual experience with them though:

https://actualbudget.org/

https://github.com/DumbWareio/DumbBudget

https://maybefinance.com/

https://paisa.fyi/

They should all be self-hostable.

Edit: I don’t know of these all match your criteria. Maybe finance looks pretty Sleek imho. I just dread the thought of exporting my transactions and importing them because my bank is forking horrible w.r.t. integrations.

And logging in every time to do a CSV export is just annoying.

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Sorry I don’t fully understand your question. Forced/hooked on what exactly?

The Xbox eco system?

Switching between consoles is a costly switch which will likely not pay off the price hike. That is assuming the competitor you’re switching to also doesn’t do a price hike shortly after you decide to switch.

They can switch to games from other publishers or other platforms ( e.g.: Nvidia ) instead of gamepass. But that would depend if the game is on there to begin with ( which is also an argument against game pass ). If all your friends are playing cod or Minecraft there isn’t really an alternative to switch to either.

Switching from Windows to Linux is ‘harder’ because people think it’s all terminals and magic and difficult. It generally isn’t nowadays. But there isn’t an initial cost to that. You don’t need to buy new hardware, there’s just a learning curve which doesn’t have to be that steep. But I have a technical background so could be biassed on that.

People can still buy games second hand or through the various discount websites I suppose. But I suppose you’ll still feel the price hike there as well. 10% off on a 60 or 80€ game is still the difference between paying 54 and 72.

Note: I actually didn’t read the article, but only the headline. So I could be completely beside the point.

That’s one way to try and shift your audience to your game pass subscription I guess.