Blaster M

However, allowing ads means allowing tracking. You got corelation with the ads being served from ad brokers, who can now see what sites you been on and have a record of where you’ve been.

Don’t use your Tor session to sign in. Also banks will probably not let you sign in via Tor.

Yes, turning off adblocker is worse. You should be using Tor browser with default configuration to browse privately, and never sign in to anything to further avoid getting tracked.

Browser fingerprinting takes measurement of things the browser exposes. If a browser exposes installed extensions, this can be used to corelate information. If awebsite checks if the browser loaded something or not, that also can be used to corelate.

Example, you (ip address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) visited this website (trackingsite.xyz), with a screen resolution of 1920x1080, using a (Mozilla/firefox) browser. The three trigger pixels did not load, meaning you’re using an adblocker, and the remote font loaded from localhost, not google. Your canvas, microphone, and camera are all blocked. Your browser also responded to an api ping for (useful extension). Interesting. This same configuration was also on (othertrackingsite.xyz) and (definitelyalegalsite.xyz), both of which a browser with the same info navigated to for at least 5 minutes, so we know it wasn’t a mistype. This same browser configuration was seen regularly browsing these sites on [days of the week] at [time of day], indicating a regular habit.

We know who you are and where you have gone.

Ironically, the Aztek is way better, despite its age…

And yet, state actors have done exactly what you’ve laid out. This is challenge accepted to a hacker.

If hypervisor security is an addon I can add via a suite of packages, okay. But, I don’t see that. Besides, OP is asking about why it isn’t part of the system natively. What’s the fault in the point?

Incorrect. The difference is not that there’s a server edition or desktop edition (which for many linux distros, there very much are server and desktop editions, even if the only difference is which packages are installed by default), but that when you properly setup a server with internet-exposed services, you usually are smart enough, have gone to school for this, learned from experience, or all of the above, how to secure a linux system for server use, and should have a configuration setup that would be inconvenient at best for a desktop, but is more secure for the purpose of a server. In addition, when running a server, you stick to what you need, you don’t arbitrarily download stuff onto a server, as that could break your live service(s) if something goes wrong.

The average desktop user does not have any of that experience or knowledge to lock down their system like ft knox, nor do they have the willpower to resist clicking on / downloading and running what they shouldn’t, so if most of everyone stopped using Windows and jumped to Linux, you would see a lot more serious issues than the occasional halfass attempt at linux malware.

If a browserjack malware does a complicated zero-click attack to gain root when you accidently typo a website, unfettered access to the system by root is a big problem. This is why SELinux exists. This is why browser sandboxing exists. This is why virtualization of modules and drivers and so on exists. This “security theatre” as you call it is to provide protection. Is protection guaranteed? No, but it’s the difference between locking your door at night and leaving it wide open.

Ah, yes, I do enjoy spending 6 months rebuilding my daily driven car in the garage because the air filter is integrated deep in the engine and not easily replaceable.

The whole “I compile all my linux from source” might work if you are an IT major or have a lot of free time you can devote to maintaining your PC, but the majority of people that use a PC do not have the time, skill, attention span, or knowledge to do any more than press “Easy” and let the system have at it.

This is a question I myself have wondered for a long while now. Before the Arch warriors come in to shout about how Secure Boot is evil and also useless and how everything Windows, Mac, and so on does for security is only needed because they’re insecure and not free and spyware and other angry words, I agree with your assessment.

The problem is that while Linux is well tested in Server environments, it is still an insignificant factor on the desktop. Servers are very well locked down in a lot of cases, so if something makes its way into the system itself, many security mitigations on the way have already failed.

Desktops are different because the user is a lot more likely to install/run/browse to stuff that is dangerous.

Right now, the only saving grace for Linux is that malware targets Windows and Android primarily, the most commonly used operating systems. What’s the point of targeting less than 4 percent of the world when you can target 90 percent of the world?

This will change if “The year of Linux desktop” actually happens and people start mass using Linux desktops. You can bet on more Linux malware happening.

Whatever you do, do not put these next to the urine samples

Now that’s something I’m looking for

The lights are combined link/act, not separate link act. left for upper side, right for lower side. 2 and 4 are blinking, 1 and 3 (the empty ports) are not.

It’s alive and kicking on standalone android thanks to Quest, but soon more android headsets that aren’t from meta are about to come out. Being able to PC VR with these is always a preference.

also the lack of good VR support - it’s a super hacky mess to get it working right

Changing lights on 99 percent of cars: twist it pull it push it turn it

Changing lights on a VW: dismantles the entire front end to gain access

Laypis

The blue stuff you mine in minecraft.

Works fine for me

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