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Woah, that’s wild. If you run the browser in fullscreen mode (F11) it’s almost like you’re running it on your own machine. Pretty cool service.

I use multiple reusable bags every time I go shopping and I’ve only kissed one man. How do I become even more gay green?

I guess in theory you’re right. If you’re executing code, you’re executing code. But usually when executing EXE files it tends to target Windows machines, but yeah, there’s no way of telling if it’ll recognize it’s in a linux environment and do it’s thing there as well.
Especially because OP mentioned he just clicked “Yes”/“Allow” to all the super user prompts.

Now personally I don’t run an Arch system and only install software from my distro + flatpak; So I feel pretty secure for now. But I can see that trend buckling as the AUR is already under attack.

Lest we forget about the Xubuntu malware thing that just happened recently. It only targeted windows users though.

You’re probably not wrong. The AUR has become an increasingly more popular target for malware.

I literally just watched this video yesterday which, as you mention yourself, talks about how modern malware will add itself to the exclusion list aka whitelist.

_{Anyway this is a good reason to try linux…}

For romantic reason I think I lean more towards the community building side. There used to be a Hospitaller monastery in the city I live in, was built about around 1170 CE, was initially deserted around 1536 because of the reformation from Catholicism to Protestantism, which kicked out the monks (whom were most likely the reason Denmark got its flag, Dannebrog, as it’s practically the same as the Knights Hospitaller), then converted into barracks for the light infantry, then into a castle, and finally around 1800 it was abandoned, and nearby farmers used the bricks from the ruin to build their own farmsteads.
And in the 1800s I’m pretty sure that stealing bricks wasn’t just a minor offense. Of course, said farms probably perpetuated the exploitation of cheap working class labor for their own benefir, so not sure how great of a community those bricks built. So maybe I do lean more towards the side of throwing them…

But at what cost… At what cost…

I did consider taking a screenshot before the edit from POW to POV, but eh.

Prisoner of war?

It won’t affect linux itself, you can restore the bootloader and get into linux when windows does that, it’s just that it’s a pain in the arse to restore. But yes, it has happened not too long ago that windows overwrote the linux bootloader. Microsoft obviously claimed it was an accident, but they obviously don’t care.
And no, on a separate drive windows won’t touch it at all.

EDIT: Maybe it’s not so hard to restore grub loader as I thought, could be as simple as these steps.

Yes. But like @18107@aussie.zone said, Windows has a bad tendency to overwrite the bootloader, and that can happen down the road during an update of theirs.
That’s why people recommend using a separate physical drive to install linux on if dualbooting with windows, because then you choose what you want to boot up on with the UEFI boot menu instead which Windows can’t overwrite (yet?).

Eh. There’s also a bunch of bozos there that’ll literally rip 128 kbps mp3s from youtube and store them as FLACs. I saw it with my own 2 beady eyes right after the release of “The end of you” by Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante. So there’s no way of knowing what source they’ve used.
EDIT: I do like Soulseek a lot tho!

I got my YT algo trained well enough that I saw the release trailer earlier this morning. Unsurprisingly there’s quite a few comments about the rainbow logo…

Thanks for sharing your thought process going through this. Theming is important, perhaps more important than we think of regularly, it’s actually one of the main things I enjoy about linux. I believe it’s also a reason why people are leaving Windows as it has become way too corporate and soulless.

I regularly sign off using “I remain,”. I think it sends the right message, that I’m still alive.

They do mention a plasmoid for KDE plasma, although according to their documentation that requires distro specific packaging. For Debian it looks like there’s a community package (right side).
EDIT:

By systems service you’re talking about systemd, right? I found this guide that sets up syncthing as a systemd service. Archwiki has a different one though.
And as the Archwiki alludes to, there’s this Syncthingtray tool that can be set up to show notifications.

Oof. Luckily it seems to only be DNS blocks for now.