So it’s just paranoia then…

Yea, not going to lie that is probably the primary motivator here.

I don’t trust Chrome, Zoom or Teams, but sometimes have to use them. I will keep them in a separate VM but will look into Firefox profiles.

Such as?

It’s not that much work. I created a VM which is running the same distro as the host. I removed all of the apps except for the terminal. Then I cloned it for each VM I need.

The Whatsapp/ email client VM and the Librewolf VM start with my OS so it’s like having them in separate windows. The others I only start if needs be.

I’m also based in the UK. I don’t run a business but have occasionally encountered problems trying to use Librewolf on the web, especially with Noscript on.

I tried to use Qubes to separate my activities into VMs but I found it difficult. So I did my own, less extreme, approach using KVM.

I created a virtual machine which only has Chrome on it. This is what I use for accessing my bank, Paypal and doing online shopping.

I have a second machine I use for Whatsapp and email and finally a third with Librewolf for general web browsing.

Each uses the same VPN service but different servers.

I only use Freetube and Retroarch on my main machine.

This is on a very beefy Thinkpad I essentially use as a desktop in my office. I use a smaller machine downstairs with VNC on it as a remote when I’m sat on my sofa.

Is it?

Would you hey, hey, hey me? I’d hey, hey, hey me…

I do. How did you know?

Are you describing what you do or giving me suggestions? Either way I love it.

Also very jealous if I’m right about what I imagine a “Johnson windmill” is. I could maybe do an “acorn in the breeze” but that’s about it.

Yea they sure do, just don’t understand how that’s connected to my original comment?

I can’t remember what I said but whilst deep in conversation with myself early one morning on the way to work I made eye contact with a woman who was getting out of her car. I froze, her expression quickly changed to something I can only describe as an “I’m not getting raped today” face with a mixture of sheer terror and indignant anger, before she got back in her car and sped away. That one also shook me for a good few months, mostly due to her parting visage.

I find myself often coming out with “finger in the butt” or some variation (finger in your butt, finger up the butt etc) which is a bit weird as I’m English and don’t use the word butt in normal conversation. Also, for some reason lately the “N” word in lots of permutations. It’s not completely involuntary as I can control it when I need to but I’m not really consciously doing it when it happens either. Like you, friend, I think something may indeed be wrong with me and that it’s time I have someone else check myself, before I wreck myself.

OK, this one got me pretty good. But does anyone else come out with some weird shit when they’re on their own? I do more and more as time goes on.

Damn, this could stop Invidious, Piped and Newpipe from being able to block ads.

At least in heaven, I can skate

There were probably also other human-like primates at a similar time to Neanderthals and it stopped us from fucking other homo-sapiens who were dead or very obviously ill.

When we were a tribal species we were unlikely to travel much at all in our lifetime and encounter someone who looked different to us so this instinct would have been beneficial. But now that we’re a global species we encounter people who look different to us often and this same instinct, compounded with cultural prejudice is holding back our development. We must learn to deal with it and our long standing hate so that we can become more genetically diverse as a species and as a result improve the health and intelligence of our offspring https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/people-born-to-geneticallydiverse-parents-more-likely-to-be-taller-and-more-intelligent-says-study-10358706.html

Hey, not all of us Debian users are lesbians.

It would be more accurate to call us lovers of lesbians.

Holy shit: “The company is recommending that customers do a factory reset on the product and find some way of responsibly recycling the hardware.”

So they’re not offering to dispose of it, or even giving any advice on how to dispose of it responsibly. Just suggesting people should probably do that.

If companies are allowed to behave this way we’re all screwed. Any efforts by the average person to avert the environmental damage caused by the waste they produce is completely futile and any politician who claims that they’re doing their best to try to hold companies accountable is a liar.