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Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 227 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Running Linux would block this feature too.

Just reason sayin.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Switching to Linux made me like computers again. Switching to Hyprland made me love computers again.

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Switching to TempleOS made me hear the voices again.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Running Linux would block this feature too.

    Keep In mind that you can still be captured by this feature indirectly, Discord for example certainly doesn’t intend to do anything to hide your messages, they recently went public so in their eyes more tracking the better.

    I’m thankful to have made a feature request to Element/Matrix asking for them to prevent this exact thing.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Discord... Still isn't public?

    They're certainly talking about it but they haven't announced a date yet.

    Having said that, element and matrix are both more privacy respecting so I do agree with the recommendation in general.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Discord... Still isn't public?

    They're certainly talking about it but they haven't announced a date yet.

    Apologies, I striked the lines out of my previous comment. It simply was an example of how you still can be captured.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's one in every thread.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Actually, Linux doesn't block windows, it just isn't windows.

    Just reason saying.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Actually it does! When youre installing, just delete the windows boot partition and your done!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Delete only the boot partition? Doug kick him off the tour!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I recently decided to switch from using Atomic Fedora to reg KDE Fedora (cause tinkering and bypassing atomic features got on my nerves), and I almost went through with wiping everything and only having Linux installed. And then I realized I probably wouldn't be able to do some tests for college cause they use anti-cheating software (lockdown browser) which they probably wouldn't like if I ran it in a VM or wine...

    But man, once I'm out of college, I'm probably wiping Windows for good! Also gonna factory reset that partition so it at least takes way less space on my drive.

    (Side note: the other hesitation is that I'm 90% kernel updates nuked Bluetooth for me around March (It worked when I rolled back to January/February releases) and I do have zoom classes sometimes. Like, do I just have to buy a Bluetooth dongle to deal with this?)

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