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  • Which method are you trying that fails? Clicking a menu icon? reboot in terminal? Tty?

    What is the status of your systemd ?

    systemctl status

    Any failed units?

    systemctl --failed

    Have you tried

    systemctl reboot ?

    What does your boot log look like?

    For maximum fun :

    journalctl -xe -b -o verbose -o with-unit -H | grep -i err -C10 --color=always | less --use-color

    ** corrected –failed to is-failed (I was right the first time) and --include to -o with-unit



  • A wireless/ethernet router as access point, a personal proxy server, or pihole, between your devices and theirs. Or, if possible your own modem and router.

    [ISP modem/router]<–LAN–>[personal wifi router]<wifi>[cheap pc proxy @ 192.168.x.x]<wifi>[all your devices]

    Proxy could be ssh(socks5), tor, shadowsocks (not microsocks), dnscrypt, tinyproxy, nekobox, whatever. They’d all have the same internal address from the proxy (if set up that way) and then again one address from the router to their device. (Router and proxy order could be reversed : or just router for some basic device identity privacy - it doesn’t encrypt your data though. An encrypted proxy will. And tor or a VPN will mask your external ip) Some proxies/VPN are more secure than others.

    And,RTFM. A bad configuration can be worse than no configuration.






  • The source code is freely available for you to run all the tests yourself. On any browser you like.

    Brave sucks. Peter Thiel can suck the corn out of my shit.

    But, the tests and results are still accurate. *based on fresh install and no config changes. (FF can be hardened well beyond what’s shown)

    As you can see in the results tor/mull/mullvad/librewolf are basically the best for all around privacy and security.

    They’re all based on FF.

    Ps: The guy was doing this long before he went to work at brave. (Maybe that’s why they hired him? Hmmm)







  • I use a very old (circa ~2010), very underpowered (6Gb ram because one slot is dead) optiplex 760 with a DP to HDMI adapter to watch movies and live sports on a projector.

    I can watch my pirate streamed movie or sports in one window and do other nerd stuff in another no problem.

    Running Linux mint-xfce with Firefox, ublock, and containers.

    Internet is acquired by tethering one of my old android phones running dnscrypt-proxy and tor (invisible pro), with KDE connect for remote control.