The file system was not unmounted cleanly so the dirty bit is 1 -> windows tells you to check the drive. This clears the dirty bit even if nothing was wrong.

laughs in btrfs and xfs

Have a look at https://european-alternatives.eu/, https://www.privacytools.io/ and https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

It’s all Fediverse. You can follow things on lemmy on mastodon and vice versa and so on.

Not the same thing. With session saving I don’t have configure anything.

KDE + wayland on Tumbleweed gave me this experience.

Wayland has at least one deal breaker for me. It doesn’t remember where my windows were at logout when saving the session. I have six virtual desktops and have specific windows in certain desktops. Putting everything back where they belong after each login, no thank you. Until they add that I’ll stick to X11.

On a related note. Why would creators add sponsored segments/other sponsoring/patreon etc if YT pays them enough?

Even youtube doesn’t pay the creators that much. Lois Rossman in a recent video showed some of his video in YT that had over 200k views and generated ~100 USD of income.

Nebula pays creators, and you pay to Nebula.

Even university students studying computer science don’t have this basic knowledge anymore.

It’s good to keep pounding this info to normies. Maybe they’ll understand one day.

Java is baxkbone of modern web app and a privacy and security nightmare.

JavaScript. Two very different things. Though Java can also be as it’s used in backend quite a lot.

Grim Dawn with Reign Of Terror mod.

Have a look at Grayjay for youtube and other video sites.

If it’s a matroska (mkv) file you can use mktoolnix (use the header editor) to set default tracks.

If developers want to make a desktop application they should use proper cross platform desktop frameworks like QT or GTK or even JavaFX instead of a webpage disguised as an application.

Windows update, at least since the inception of the concept has never required me to go to a browser

In xp it still was an website which required IE due to activex used to do the updates.

It is against the GDPR.

In the EU this kind of automatic opting-in to marketing/data sharing is against the GDPR as it requires explicit consent from user/customer. I’m in the EU and have those settings but they were both toggled off, as expected.