Selfhosted DNS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOfonONtIuk
Instead of letting some randomly assigned server do that, you have your own Server doing that, like a dictionary. And you can simply block addresses that transfer ads
There is an addon “activate reader view” that can force it if its not officially supported, sometimes works.
Yes I have do the same, layer small packages, use Flatpaks and complex stuff like (R + rstudio + COPR + Modules) or (QGis + grass + python + plugins) or IDEs in a distrobox.
At least in Distrobox you can also create rootful containers which could run an entire DE, or run libvirtd in there and use virt-manager in a rootless box, connected over ssh. Totally works but its a bit complicated. But for software with systemd or USB access this is needed.
Flatpaks share libraries, but they are sometimes not packaged well, contrary to distro packages, which on the other hand may pull in loots of dependencies.
Would be interesting to run all packages in a rootful distrobox and have Fedora RPMs on the other hand.
There are some hardening problems though, that I dont really understand, with user namespaces being blocked in the hardened kernel. On Arch there is bubblewrap-suid
which fixes that in a way I also dont understand yet, but Podman, Distrobox, Toolbox, Docker etc dont work yet, and may not work too.
Yup, Flatpaks are indeed great. Isolation, modern versions, no weird dependencies.
I have to manage a Debian PC fleet and I am too stupid for Ansible, so they all just got cleaned up extremely, all that bloat gone, apps replaced with flatpaks and now the system has like ⅓ the packages. Automatic updates then, VirtualBox is the only stupid thing with their kmod and all, but Virtmanager is also already on there.
Not all apps can be flatpaks, for example virt-manager, gnome-boxes can but its really restricted then.
But keeping the system slim just makes so much sense, its like removing this distro randomness which I am sure is needed for Linux to get their shit together and stop doing the same work at 10 different places.
Thats misinformation people that use Vanadium or Chromium spread. It increases attack surface if the addon is bad. But websites dont have the ability to randomly scan your browser, they can just detect weird behavior of your browser indirectly. And locally changing website rendering (this includes cookie banner removal and cosmetic ublock filters) are not one of them
Dark Background and Light Text - Firefox Addon
Also on mobile using my custom Addon Collection , especially useful on OLED screens!
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