It was already in effect last year when I had to get an ETSA. They wanted my:

• twitter account: don’t have one
• facebook account: don’t have one
• WhatsApp: don’t have
• Instagram: don’t have
• LinkedIn: OK, that I have

Yep, you can turn off some of it with the flags settings https://pureinfotech.com/disable-ai-mode-address-bar-new-tab-chrome/

The stats show people are using it for things like multiple my meal by 18% tip, or give me web link to x product. Instead of using a calculator app, or re gular search. Meanwhile the AI companies are having to build power station. People are stupid, and we will ruin out world because of idiots

Block your TV MAC address from accessing the internet at the router level. Local LAN phone apps will still control TV . but for streaming stuff you will want a raspberrypi loaded with Kodi or jellifin

Its looking like our future will be buying dumb industrial display panels and running a RaspberryPi as your streaming service device

In general its just wasteful use of power for answers that are easily found in other ways.

Yes 2FA is good, but most people default to their phone being the tool, but your phone number can be ported by scammers, or is often the target of theft

The solution to that is you purchase a backup key and enroll both when presented with the QR image for new OTP links, or add a secondary FIDO key on some accounts. Then you store the other one in a fireproof box.

Or you use a cryptographic key and print it out using shard tool. The shard tool lets you specify how many splits and how many required for a tebuild. It prints out the shards and you distribute to safe places or people. They are useless by themselves but if you scan in the required amount of pieces the tool will rebuild your cryptographic key

Use a yubikey hardware device, only the person with the hardware in hand and password can unlock your accounts

Just takes a brute force or 0 day vulnerability to get master password access, then they have everything.

Something that seems secure never is online, like the 2017 Intel managetment vulnerability where remote attackers could access your computer by sending a null password, and access your keyboard and camera etc

If you want it that way, but then I’d have a mix of synced folder and regular folders inside Documents.

I like to keep if completely separate, for backing up user documents via dejadup differently than the synced stuff.

Hardware folder (synced via sync thing). All hardware PDFs, notes images etc get subfolders by manufacturer. It is helpful for keeping track of use manuals, firmware or config settings for each piece of hardware.

Not sure about the distro being used, opensuse makes a docker zone to put docker interfaces on, those have their own ports and rules separate then the Ethernet assigned zone ports/services to allow. For me I had the opposite issue, I couldn’t reach my docker containers from my lan, onky from the local machine because the Ethernet was on an internal zone and Docker was on its own zone. I’m not a superskilled networker dude so I just turned on forwarding and masquerade so the incoming LAN zone would forward to doocker zone and pretend to be the local machine connecting and not a LAN or remote IP. I guess if you moved your dockers too the public zone you could get in trouble

Could be signing, if removing secure boot changed behaviour. The proprietary nvidia kernal module needs you to enroll the key in MOK interface at boot after an install or some updates.

You should have gotten a blue screen at boot that said options like, continue or enroll MOK, delete MOK, cancel, etc.

I always saw solitaire as a pass the time game, not really a puzzle.

Hardware raid is fine as long as you can still get the same hardware RAID card or Motherboard.

With OpenSUSE are you using the open source nvidia driver, or did you add the nvidia hosted repo and install their proprietary drivers?

The nvidia owned repo did work better for me.

But could be memory leak.

For anyone with laptop, and onboard graphics and nvidia RTX I had to install an opensuse swicher package to ensure appa start on the right GPU (right click option on the app) I forget the app name at the moment, it wanst the bumblebee or optimus, it was something else, Switcheroo maybe.

Ha. On Windows I had this ancient Ethernet Canon IP printer. Windows hated it, even with the supplied Canon drivers and network Utility. It always needed messing with every time to get it to show up as a printer on the network.

When I moved to OpenSUSE I went into YAST2 printer discovery. It found the printer right away, and suggested a model, and asked if I wanted to install the GutenPrint driver for it. Yes please. And do you want to announce this printer to others on your network (via CUPS) Yes. Done. Worked 100% with no Canon utilities.

Yep, it is helpful for corporate applications, where nothing can introduce possible behavioural changes, that affect users, program function or the application development.

Stable will still get security patches and bug updates, just no new major kernel jumps or new features.