Sounds like you’ve got your own first world problem there :P

Awesome, thanks OP!

Thanks for the summary!

Why worse?

This happened in Scotland after the law was clarified on biological m/f:

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/trans-women-gather-topless-scottish-31666688

I wish there was a Pixel with an SD card slot. That is the main reason I’m still, grudgingly, on Samsung.

Im thinking of changing my daily driver for Win 10 to SteamOS. Any reason not to?

Arch best for gaming?

Good write up, thanks!

I’m the same. It is quite jaring to see an add now. They seems very obnoxious.

The only issue in have is ads in podcasts. This isn’t a huge deal as the provider usually determine add based on IP so i get a 30 second ad in a language I can’t understand.

Any solutions to this?

P.S. before I switched from YouTube I disabled all data collection and personalisation a few notable ads I used to receive:

• Ads for balls soap (this ad was repugnant)
• Ads for Muslim speed dating, with male chaperone (I’m not a Muslim)
• A 1hour Chinese party political conference, in Chinese (I don’t speak Chinese)

^ Ive got the last one saved out of curiosity.

I remember a time when YouTube was not owned by google and was ad free.

The internet was better before all of this tracking.

You could read the Red Mars series. It covers some of the points you’ve raised albeit it is Science Fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

God that game saying “Find Nathan Gould” over and over.

Get a dog next.

Sign the petition:

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

I think I saw this season of Westworld.

Thanks for the tips. I did some got training a few months ago but hadn’t considered using it for Linux configs.

That is good advice.

Thank you for your advice. I will take it. As a beginner, I’ll start with Mint.

Would your reccomend any other secure distro for the future?

Thanks for the reply. I’m fairy average Joe. I’ll mainly use this machine for downloading files and general browsing. I don’t have any personal files or accounts on that device.

I’m mainly concerned with neglecting to enable (or disabling) something critical or accidentally downloading something malicious (although this hasn’t happened for many many years).

Thanks!

Thanks!