Are you saying I could get Linux running on my Fairphone 3+?

Mind you, yeah, 3G switch off would then make life difficult…

Enterprises just lease desktops / laptops and replace them with the latest version of Windows… my team used to be after reasons to get the latest OS / laptop, now IT have to prise them out of their hands

🤯 I can generally follow the gist of that, but, wow, how the hell do these people work this stuff out

Ok, so setup a DC (in a VM on your linux laptop), install Win11 joined to that domain, create a local user, then leave the domain & destroy the VM…?

Or install Linux 👍🏻

Dunno how long you’ve been online, but you should’ve seen searching before Google came along… it’s still better now.

But, there was not much tracking back then…

Depends… if you use an offline password manager ( like keepass), you can ask it to autotype your credentials into anything… if that’s what you ask it to do (ie it’s not a fault)

Main point though: don’t reuse the same credentials across different sites.

They’ll get 1 site, but not all the rest of them…

Was that the one with the vertical task bar that couldn’t be changed??

Or is it better now…?

Proton VPN for Vivaldi is only available for desktop at the moment. We hope to include it for mobile in the future. https://vivaldi.com/protonvpn/

1. Agreed
2. Well, if it’s the free tier option, then I guess not a lot…?

I’m all for revenue income to support these tools - as long as I’m not the product - I just won’t be using this option.

Yeah, just read a bit more, where it’s implied that Vivaldi recommend you share your Vivaldi account recovery with Proton, which was the problem recently:

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/privacy/proton-vpn-for-vivaldi/

Allow Vivaldi to share your account’s recovery email address with Proton (only shown during first use).

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/vivaldi_proton_vpn/

Proton VPN is operated by the same company behind the encrypted email service, Proton Mail. The business found itself in hot water in 2024 after complying with a legal request to hand over the recovery email address for a Proton Mail account.

Hmm… this doesn’t sound good to me.

Everything I get usually has it’s metadata updated / overwritten by Musicbrainz anyway

But, yeah, it’s slow going if you’re in a niche…

I’ve created / updated a few albums in there and it takes a few minutes to get it all done, but there’s some satisfaction in giving back

🤔 Maybe I’ll try that next time… I kinda feel loyal to Grub, it’s been my friend for sooo looong.

Might help to draw it out on paper

But, when you’re done, you’ll be the Encrypted Dual-Boot God !

Why not… or try another brick in the wall

They’re my preferred platform for buying music.

I purchase from Bandcamp, should I be looking to move over?

Ah, yeah, you’ve just reminded me, I must move my stuff off proxmox when I get a chance.

I tried that proxmox backup thing when I first set it up, good god what a complex mess… backup & recovery needs to be as simple and as smooth as possible.

Pretty much everytime I try to do fancy stuff with the bootloader I get pretty close to nuking systems. Worst was my 1st UEFI system where I was trying to get rEFInd to show multiple OS to boot from… eventually gave up and went back to the warm embrace of GRUB

Ah, have you found the land of IoT? Bricks everywhere, you’d love it.

Ah yes, reminds me of messing with my 1st pfSense firewall… I learned how good their recovery process was that evening

Nah, if you’re installing something user friendly (ie Linux Mint just for an example) it’ll work 1st time, guaranteed - or your money back.

But… you’ll only really learn once you’ve fubar’d something… just like falling off riding a bike