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Immich is generally regarded as the self hosted replacement for Google photos, personally I have been happy with nextcloud, it’s more basic for photos but still does the job for me.

Agreed. Get them a ChromeOS device, or get a good refurb business class laptop and put ChromeOS flex on it.

Yes it’s not what OP is probably wanting, but this gives them a device that is hard to mess up with a minimum of training.

Capacitors replacing batteries like this, similar to nuclear fusion power, is always only X years away.

Because many people are not smart. If they buy a 65w charger and see only 60w being pulled they’ll complain that either the charger or phone is defective and want a refund.

I would like to see it as an option to enable, at the moment though I just have a few cables that measure/display this for me. It’s a useful basic troubleshooting tool with laptops and phones. If you plug them in and dont see any current or only 0.1w, you know there’s a problem with the device getting power.

Honestly might be part of it, by going out of spec on the timestamps it probably let’s them more easily insert different length ads

Games need to live closer to the bleeding edge than a lot of other software.

Also, for wine/proton, and the other customisations built into the deck, it makes sense to pick a starting point that is more built for customisation. By that I mean there was probably less things they needed to add or remove at the start.

As mentioned, it’s also likely there was personal bias internally. But even that can be a valid reason as they need to be familiar/comfortable with the starting distro.

Not saying that Debian cannot do it, but doing it this way probably made valve’s employees lives easier.

If you have a dynamic IP from your ISP, could be you got unlucky and were given a address previously used by attackers.

Or if you have a static IP on a VPS or similar, they may have had a lot of attacks from the IP Range.

By attacks in this instance I mean people setting up phishing or similar websites as the most common example. A simple web form, probably with obfuscated code. They then send a bunch of emails line "click here to view your invoice"and gather office 365 credentials.

While it’s not good that this kind of false positive happens from time to time, I am more thankful this kind of service exists. Yes, there’s privacy and security implications, but smart screen has stopped legitimate attacks at our clients before, and we force it enabled wherever possible.

A sane firewall configuration should have no/minimal impact on a desktop focused OS.

On the other hand, sometimes programs are really badly made and expect stupid things like there being no firewall.

You should have one yes, but to each their own.

I manage a bunch of windows computers and regularly make adding firewall rules part of install scripts, good example: Dreamweaver.

I know I could have gone that path, but I’m a techie at heart who loves pushing buttons, sometimes having to get myself out of a mess I created.

It’s a hobby to self host things for me. Given that I host it in a docker container also means I’m yet to break it. I think the self host option also gives you a few more features than the free bitwarden official host option?

As far as I can remember and tell from searching around at the moment, they dropped effectively all VPN sponsorships.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/y1dcef/did_ltt_drop_pia_and_replace_them_with_nord/ (yes, it’s reddit, some people might see it as a dirty word at this point, but still valid)

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1411170-thoughts-on-private-internet-access/

I honestly didn’t even notice that! Disabled the extension and tested things out, it looks like there’s no automatic “open this website in container X” option without using the extension. If I’m wrong I must have missed it. That’s another main part of my workflow, basically have sharepoint sites for the various 365 accounts (one for the company I work for, others for clients), that way it always uses the correct account for each instance as an example.

These are the ones I cannot live without/use everyday:

• Bitwarden (I self host a vaultwarden instance)
• Facebook Container
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers (Makes using services like Office365 with multiple accounts at the same time much easier)
• Private Internet Access
• Return YouTube Dislike
• Redirect AMP to HTML

I have a few others installed that have already been mentioned plenty of times like SponsorBlock, uBlockOrigin. Not using an ad filter these days is like fucking a stranger without a condom, you’re just asking for super syphilis.

Samsung galaxy s21+ as my phone

I got it back at release when they let people stack discounts (paid like 40% the cost of the device). It’s still fast enough for everything, a good size, I also got the care plus option with it so swapped to a brand new one earlier this year, want to get another 2 years out of it.

I also have a galaxy tab s6, but haven’t ended up using it as much as I thought I would over the years.

I self host a Bitwarden instance.

They are a must in this day and age.