Interlingua

How does one know if their DNS is encrypted?

And what would the benefits of a VPN be, if any, in this scenario?

Eh. Been using MPV as an alternative, and so many thanks to whoever mentioned that on Lemmy. Works way better than FreeTube currently. However, it also fails at times. At least in my experience. Which is rather annoying. Better than nothing, though

What can they collect, seeing as HTTPS is common nowadays? I mean, they could have DNS wueries, I guess. But then how does custom DNS vs VPN compare?

Okay, what exactly are the benefits of a VPN for the average user (non-corporate), besides pretending to be somewhere else?

Why couldn’t they just use usual Linux for that? Why a modified kernel? Is Linux as is not suitable for a phone?

Can’t they just, idk, make a distro? Maybe from scratch? Pop!_OS is working on COSMIC. Can’t they have their Linux-based OS, perhaps with its own things as needed, such as a phone-optimised DE? Or whatever the phone equivalent of a DESKTOP environment would be. A Mobile Environment, perhaps

If my laptop had touch screen with no other method of input built in, and were way smaller, could it not run Linux? Or is that different altogether?

I present to you the future: smart pipe

It’s a direct quote from when Sascha Kemmis-Powers visited Smart Pipe

I just find it kinda weird and annoying how y’all can turn unrelated topics into US news and politics. As someone who has never set foot there, I know way more than I need to about it because of how widespread your news and politics are, and how much it comes my way even when unrelated to the topic at hand.

Damn, y’all really can’t think 'bout nu’in else, innit?

And that’s not just a win for companies. The fact that my metadata is out there is great for me as a user. Like with targeted ads – I get tons of coupons from cool restaurants.

When you log into YouTube, a patented recog device does read your anus to confirm your identity. Its CCDs convert light into text-based codes, which represent your unique fingerprint of anal terrain.

Well, the reason I got an in the first place, when I saw US News & Politics. I knew, if I had an account, I could block that. If I log out… I don’t want to go back to unfiltered. Imagine all the US that would rule my feed…

Shi, how do I set account to “read-only”?

Well, I sure hope this doesn’t come to be. I don’t wanna use their official website, the 3rd party tools are great! But YouTube has become an essential part of my everyday life…

And yes, I have looked into alternatives. They lack what YouTube got, which is the creators I already like (pretty much all of them exclusive to YouTube). Best I could get is copycats. You might be able to find something similar, but not the same (unless you like tech, I guess. If all you consume is tech, you won’t lack options (especially if you don’t care for specific creators))

Disconnected in 2050

I say you like what you like. So long as it don’t hurt no one, I’m okay with it.

Fun pop song made by a team of songwriters? Cool.

Solo singer-songwriter writing from their heart and hatred for women & LGBT? GTFO

If it is fun, it is fun. If I like it, I like. Don’t care for details. So long as it’s not hurtful or offensive, I don’t GAFOS

LibreOffice is good, I use it and, for my use cases, it works.

Yeah, it sucks. Can’t go into much detail, cause of an NDA. All I can say is, read the Terms and Conditions of Use. You never know in what situation you might get yourself into

Wait, for real?! What the…

Well, let us hope none of The Beatles’ songs have been written by all members, then. Same goes for any band with more than three members. Cuz apparently many songwriters s bad. Only solo artists. In fact, to be safe, we should just ban group acts. Solo artists only. Anything else is corporate garbage. The best stuff is done by one person alone, not a group of people. Or so says this one person on the internet