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I didn’t say switching to Linux would be a tiny change.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure I had a w98 and xp key memorized at one point

Some people would rather just die than make even the tiniest change, even if that change will make their lives infinitely better

Windows 95 had a more successful launch. Believe me: I was there for it, and I had to run tech-support for half a dozen friends’ computers at the time, not to mention several family members.

And I had already been running Chicago betas for several months. What a shit show that was…

And these were the days before most people had either a functional Internet connection or any sort of home networking, so any kind of real fix or updates had to come through the sneakernet via floppies.

I was legit working for Dell tech Support when Windows 98 came out, and that really wasn’t so bad. except for the whole USB 2.0 thing…

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Gosh… I really do like food…

I’m not gonna tell you because I have an aunt named Patty McBride IRL, and this just got real weird

Yeah, and I foresee over $30 trillion of potential revenue in my OnlyFans page.

The difference? There is a realistic expectation of at least some guaranteed revenue from my onlyfans page without incurring tens of billions of dollars in debt first.

And I can show legitimate growth on my onlyfans page without the aid of “AI”. And while “AI” is a fad, the world‘s oldest profession isn’t going anywhere…

These sorts of attacks rely on a person finding themselves in a pretty shady situation already. You would have had to responded to some shady Web link or some shady email, and already clicked on a few shady links to get to the point where you were screen sharing with some bad actor somewhere. This exploit would have to be run on someone who was already pretty far down the rabbit hole.

If you’re pretty careful, you would never get started in the first place.

In fact, sometimes you will see these reports, and it turns out that these exploits exist only in a lab where they tested it, and haven’t been discovered in the real world

Yeah, that too.

As more and more people flee windows and seek alternatives, expect to see this sort of thing to increase.

Oh, I agree. It really would be nice if ublock origin light was installed by default.

I prefer uBlock Origin Lite on Safari. I switched a while back because adblock wasn’t catching ads in YouTube.

They have pretty good privacy and anti-fingerprinting stuff in Safari, but not ad blocking— although they do have an odd tool for “hiding distracting items“ that can work as an ad hoc ad blocker of sorts. On the other hand, ublock origin light works wonderfully for me. Both on macOS Safari and iOS Safari.