Sounds like that’s the way I’ll have to go. Unfortunate, I hate increased layers of complexity, but I think that’s the move.

Yeah when I worked at BioWare we would do things gradually, then I moved to EA Mobile and staging and testing was like a foreign concept. It was wild. Fortunately that changed, but having a staging instance is really really important, as I’m sure many people now realize. Sometimes lessons are hard. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Ooo a pihole! That’s on the list.

It sounds exactly like a Microsoft fix.

Just imagine if it’s a build farm with hundreds of machines. Jesus. That’s a hell I wouldn’t even wish on my worst enemy.

That might be what I’ll have to do.

That sounds ideal, but I don’t currently have the resources to set up a home network. :⁠-⁠\

Right, it’s like the commentor above asking why I would use a private dns. Check the logs. I posted a screenshot above. A private dns is a great tool.

A mvno is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator, thus MVNO. They don’t own the network, they lease it.

I use a private dns for privacy. I don’t like my data and metrics being shared without my consent. It also blocks ads. Win win

edit: they had some sort of billing issue with me where my bill was consistently 40-50+ bucks over what it should be. So it would be correct one month then the next it would be like 200 bucks and back and forth. When I called, the garbage support had zero clue, and now that I have cancelled, they say they owe me 40 bucks. When I went to pay my bill, it was always 2 payments. Why? I called, again no clue. They did away with Google pass, well you want to know what they also did away with? The insurance on my phone and didn’t tell me. So with i needed it, I was not insured. Cool. Hard pass for me.

Edit: here’s an example of why a private dns is useful:

I used to work at video game company and Joplin was the code name for one of our projects, so now every time I see that word, I instantly think of that game. I think it was dragon age lol. Anyway, if I can get past that PTSD I might check out this editor! lol /s

For anyone who didn’t know about ed, such as I did not: https://linux.die.net/man/1/ed

Ooo vi how fancy! (The jealous inner dialogue wishing I knew more vi commands) 😝🤣

edit: it’s like when you’re programming and you need to use regex, but like you don’t know it, but you should, and you need help from that “one person that KNOWS regex”. That feeling. I need to get that regex card game and play that vi adventures game. lol

edit2: I actually love vim it’s a good tool

I think they provide tools to do this. You can do google takeout, then set your privacy settings to delete after X amount of time. We can hold good faith that they do so? Other than that, i guess you can contact them?

And layoffs all the way down.

Same. They’re are so many foss options out there, why discord?

MyAnonamouse

Lol whatcha need help with?

Honestly, what i do is install docker using brew and spin up a saltbox instance on localhost. You can always bring it down by telling docker to stop but it’s way better and it’s containerized.

edit: let me know if you need help.

Just like the exterior of their new gigafactory in Austin.

That’s better than me. I ran a security script that i… laugh and roll my eyes at myself about in a bad way, like i deserved what i got. I didn’t read the script…

So i restarted the system. Since i used an online Microsoft account to create the local user, and i didn’t read the script, the only account, and admin at that, was disabled. I couldn’t sign in AT ALL. Lol

I formatted the whole system and installed Fedora Plasma. I’m a Fedora fan. It’s what we use in a corporate environment (rhel) and it’s what i learned on.

TL;DR: Windows sucks. Linux is great and ProtonDB for those games you miss.