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This always baffled me when I had a friend who showed me his Plex server years ago.

So you’re using a service which makes it easy for you to host and access everything wherever you are, pulls in all the metadata for shows and movies and you’re not worried about them tracking all of that?

When I finally set my own up I used Jellyfin from the start, I prefer as little tracking as possible but thats just me

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Other than for work purposes, I will never go back to using Windows

I haven’t had a gaming system.in over 10 years and I was so glad I got the steam deck. It just worked out of the box, no messing around having to set anything up or play around with settings.

I bought a few games, downloaded them and everything has been seamless. Its been the most worthwhile purchase I’ve made in quite some time.

I’ve been using Pop for years, I just feel like its always worked so well for me and never given me any major gripes. Web browsing, playing a few basic games, editing documents and even recently setting up another home server with it for media streaming with Jellyfin.

I’m a big advocate for any OS which works well out the box and is mostly hands off once configured!

If PopOS isn’t your thing you’ll find it eventually 🙂

The alternative is you could use a Windows server… Bear in mind a lot of code for windows is private and isn’t open to scrutiny from the public so chances are there could possibly be built-in backdoors no one is aware of except for Microsoft or there are backdoors which are only known to a hacker who’s discovered them.

The recent xz backdoor, I think is a stellar example of how powerful open source software can be, a community came together and noticed this in such a short period of time and had a way to quickly resolve this without this being a large scale issue, looking back at things like Log4j which caused so much pain across the entire industry, we are so lucky to have open source software communities.

This almost looks like it could provide all the benefits of what Google Maps does with tracking your movents with the benefits of being totally private! I know this isn’t the intention but it would be awesome if it could offer this!

I’m all in favor of privacy and people moving away from Google services and it does suck that so many different apps and services will perform DNS checks like this which in turn, can compromise your security and give away information which can be used by third parties but at the same time, is reviewing all of this not exhausting?

I’m always keen to upgrade and improve my privacy, to some degree I’m happy to compromise on convenience but there is a limit. If I have to consistently review a firewall like this I think I’d get sick of it pretty quick. Not to mention when blocking something unexpectedly breaks something and the time you spend figuring all of that out.

I’m an idiot so excuse me if this is just way too simple. If you’re able to remove DRM and get the file, is it not just possible to copy the content out of the file and make a brand new file?

I know I’m probably over simplifying things but I know if I’m paranoid about stuff like exif data in an image, if I’m in a pinch I’ll just screenshot the original image instead.

Something like this to restore the fun mindless games of the 2000’s is definitely needed. Basic HTML webpages with links to ad free browser games, the internet had so much fun free stuff for kids, now its like 5 websites that track your every move