Thanks for the info. It looks like that’s what .NET / C# uses: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/2b60d82ef3e87876128b7f71922a1b72908b6fcf/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Environment.GetFolderPathCore.Unix.cs#L103

but please don’t hard-code ~/.config or $HOME/.config. Use the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable, with $HOME/.config as a fallback if it’s not set.

Many programming languages have a cross-platform implementation of this built in to their standard library. C# has Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData) which uses XDG_CONFIG_HOME on Linux, local AppData on Windows, and whatever is the correct thing on MacOS (not very familiar with how things work on MacOS)

Which players? FLAC has been around for over 20 years, so players that don’t recognize it probably need to be updated :D

Good points. I was using KDE with both and didn’t have any issues (even though Debian’s version of KDE was older) but that might not work in all scenarios.

I don’t have compiled things in the home folder - they go in either /usr/local/bin or /opt.

What type of issues? Did you get error messages?

Install a few and see which one you like the most. You can install several distros at the same time and they’ll all appear in the boot menu. When I was deciding which distro to use on my laptop, I was dual booting Debian and Fedora, with one /home partition shared between both of them.

Mint and Fedora are good choices IMO. Everyone is different though :)

Fedora tends to “just work” too. Some manufacturers that support Ubuntu also support Fedora for customers that need a “RedHat-ish” distro instead of a “Debian-ish” one.

Shout out to DeArrow, from the same developer as SponsorBlock. It replaces video titles and thumbnails with community-provided non-clickbait versions. Available as a browser extension, and is also built-in to several third-party YouTube apps, such as SmartTube.

That’s correct.

Reposting the same comment I made on another post:

It’s not just Honey swapping the affiliate codes. Practically all the major coupon sites do it too. That’s why they require you to click on a coupon code to reveal it. When you click, they usually reveal the coupon code in a new tab, and helpfully redirect the current tab to the store, using their affiliate link.

It’s more obvious when websites do it though, since they can’t auto-close the tab like Honey does. They also don’t automatically pop up at checkout like Honey does.

I imagine some of the other coupon extensions do the exact same thing as Honey though.

Look for Bobs. Maybe they need furniture

I didn’t even realise they have an extension. I just use the site.

I also use CashbackMonitor.com, which lets you look up a site and see a list of all the cashback sites that support it. Sometimes, during promotions (like Black Friday), Rakuten’s cashback is temporarily higher than TopCashback’s.

and California (where this lawsuit is coming from)

Based on what I’m reading in the post (since I don’t use Discord), it’s still obstructing the cancelation flow and making the user go through more steps, which is illegal in California.

All TopCashback is doing is taking the commission and giving you some of it. They take less of a cut than other sites like Rakuten, which I guess they can do since they have fewer overheads (eg I’ve never seen a TV ad for them). I don’t think they’re selling any user data.

It’s not just Honey swapping the affiliate codes. Practically all the major coupon sites do it too. That’s why they require you to click on a coupon code to reveal it. When you click, they usually reveal the coupon code in a new tab, and helpfully redirect the current tab to the store, using their affiliate link.

It’s more obvious when websites do it though, since they can’t auto-close the tab like Honey does. They also don’t automatically pop up at checkout like Honey does.

I imagine some of the other coupon extensions do the exact same thing as Honey though.

People realised years ago but didn’t really care much. End users generally don’t care since it doesn’t directly impact them, and “influencers” will often take a sponsorship deal without thoroughly researching the product or service being advertised, and probably just figured that people were buying less stuff due to the economy or whatever.

The tech-savvy people that realised what’s happening tend to either avoid afilliate links, or use a cash back service (TopCashback, Rakuten, etc) that requires you to use their affiliate link.

It’s not just Honey doing this. Practically all the major coupon sites do it too.

That kinda how it already works, assuming your ISP knows what they’re doing and gives you at least a /64 range. IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long. The first 64 bits are the network address and are set by your ISP (or by both you and your ISP if they give you range larger than /64), and the last 64 bits can be whatever you want. Usually it’s randomly generated and changes periodically, as long as IPv6 Privacy Extensions are enabled (enabled by default on client OSes, but usually disabled by default on server-oriented OSes).

Note that IPv6 is different to IPv4 in that it does not use NAT. Each device on your network gets its own public IPv6 address. That doesn’t mean they’re exposed to the internet though; your router will still have a firewall to block incoming connections.

HE IPv6 tunnels and Cloudflare don’t get along well though, so you’ll hit issues with a bunch of sites. You’ll have a better experience with a $10/year VPS that has a routed /64 IPv6 range.

What are you trying to protect against? Having a separate burner phone just for Target feels like overkill to me. If you’re worried about Target spying then why not just go into the store to buy things, and pay in cash?

Can anyone explain what is happening in Android a

It’s using Firebase Cloud Messaging which is a Google service

Are there Android app permissions associated with this, that I can revoke?

You can revoke notification permissions for an app, but then you won’t get notifications of course.