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I’d say it’s worth it. Another bonus with your own domain is that you basically have an infinite amount of receiving email addresses you can use for no extra charge e.g. you can just keep making up new email addresses @ yourdomain whenever you need to register to a new website or whatever.

Drastically cuts down on the amount of spam you get at your main/personal address(es). Also helps whenever a website or whatever has a data breach, just means your random made up email address was leaked and it’s easy enough to mark that as spam going forward.

That’s interesting, apparently it was mentioned on github but nothing seems to have changed in the end

https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/3784

Haven’t used that software in a long time but maybe there’s an opt-out somewhere during runtime? Although I don’t see why a user needs to be required to opt out of nonsense like this when just writing firmware to a USB disk.

Only ever touched balenaEtcher when some project or distro recommended it. Overall prefer Rufus for this sort of thing when working on Windows.

My bank doesn’t offer virtual credit cards sadly.

If you’re just looking for virtual cards, could you just apply for a credit card with that capability? In the U.S. there are credit card providers that can do that, not sure about Canada but I figured it’d be the same there.

Otherwise the comment from /u/brrt@sh.itjust.works is spot on, all the phone apps like Google Pay already virtualize your card number so you’re not actually sharing your full details with the merchant. Or make your own prepaid debit card via a separate checking account you put a bit of spending money into.

Yup there’s at least a few projects that can do in browser file transfer using WebRTC e.g.

https://sendfiles.dev/

https://sharedrop.io/

https://github.com/kern/filepizza

And of course https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole (they used to have a website too but maybe that went away?)

The service seems kind of generic, maybe even worse than the other generic VPN services. No statements about what they log, whether they allow p2p, no mention of port forwarding, servers in only 5 countries which you may/may not want to VPN through, etc.

Not sure about the software, I guess they think it will be an improvement over OpenVPN/WireGuard which is debatable.

Best not to overthink it - The sales clerk is trained to ask for this stuff.

Luckily most times I encounter this I just tell them no I don’t have a phone number with them & continue checkout like normal. Sometimes that means not getting a sale price on something but usually I avoid those type of member-specific sales anyway.

And worst case - Just make something up. At Best Buy a sales rep absolutely refused to sell me something from the mobile dept without my info. Which didn’t make sense because earlier I had bought something at that same Best Buy with a different rep & that rep took my order without my info no problem (she said she had to enter a phone number but just entered Best Buy’s).

Yet this particular sales rep refused to proceed without info, so yeah he got an entire fictional name/address/phone/email on the spot.

I believe because any site that has an extension with more than four characters is detected as invalid.

Usually it’s just badly coded apps/websites that only whitelisted some of the main domains e.g. most vanity domains don’t make it through. Or sometimes there are apps/websites that purposely block your domain if the admins think it’s too spammy or whatever.

If your current email provider allows you to use their own domains as an alias that’s one way to sidestep the issue e.g. you’d end up with [something]@[youremailprovider].com --> [name]@[name].rocks

I have Fastmail & they have a ton of their own internal domains so that’s one way I sidestep that issue. It’s pretty common among most/all email providers when you bring your own domain e.g. pretty sure Proton can do the same thing. Once you have your own domain you can make up any [alias]@[yourdomain] you like or just use the provider’s as a front facing alias [alias]@[youremailprovider] --> [anything]@[yourdomain].

Same here, mobile check deposit and Zelle are literally the only things I’ve ever needed a bank app for.

I used to never use Zelle for anything but too many friends/family want to use some sort of app for exchanging money & that’s usually what we settle on. And my old landlord wanted rent paid via Zelle so that was another thing that forced me to install a bank app for Zelle purposes.

Mobile check deposit is a requirement when dealing with a bank without any locations nearby. In practice I only need to use that once a year or so, checks are kind of rare nowadays unless you’re a business owner with clients/customers paying with checks.

Fastmail is great but it’s a totally different market /use case, you wouldn’t go with them if you’re privacy oriented. They’re better than Google in that sense but you’d go with Proton if you’re looking for privacy features.

Also keep in mind Fastmail is based in Australia and their government tends to be anti-privacy with the laws that get passed there.

Not sure if it fits what you’re looking for but I usually use YUMI for multi boot situations, can’t recall it giving me any issues over the years. But I don’t do anything overly complex either.

Never had the need to use Ventoy myself so can’t really give a good comparison but maybe others have used both & can give a better review.

PS - For what it’s worth my basic toolkit is YUMI with https://www.system-rescue.org and https://www.memtest.org, that alone covers the vast majority of my diagnostics/rescue situations. But I’ve also added Windows 10 ISO onto the multi boot on occasion which could be useful for getting to a Windows prompt with Windows tools when needed - though I have a habit of keeping Windows on its own USB via https://rufus.ie

It depends on the instance, you just have to try different instances until you find one that works for you. For what it’s worth I’ve found that dbzer0 works okay with Tor Browser.

Just to be sure, did you download some strange version of the .iso from some non-official source? Or did you modify your Windows install in some way?

And you’re definitely selecting to install Windows 10 Pro, not something else?

I assumed you downloaded the generic .iso direct from Microsoft at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 like most people do. (you can use the browser trick to get the page to give you .iso download options e.g. in Chrome I just hit F12, set the dimensions to something mobile looking, hit F5 to refresh the page, then go ahead & download the .iso)

The generic .iso is indeed a multi with the download option named “Windows 10 (multi-edition ISO)”, that itself doesn’t affect any of the steps above.

Then just use Rufus or similar to create a bootable USB with it.

LOL I didn’t know that works too, good to know :D

Technically you can just click “Domain join instead” to go into the local account creation.

You just need to select to “Domain join instead”, there is no need to actually go & set up an actual domain. See my other comment.

Hmm on the last few installs I’ve done (both Win 10 and 11) I just lead the installation to believe I’ll be doing a corporate/domain install & it always lets me create a normal user/password after that. Not necessary to unplug any ethernet/internet or anything of the sort.

It’s always worked for me both at work and at home.

Just to be sure, I spun up a virtual machine to install Windows 10 22H2, here are the steps I went through:

1. Boot into the Windows 10 installer, jump into the installer & run through all the initial install steps until we get to the OOBE (Windows 10 out-of-box-experience post installer)
2. Select your Region, click Yes
3. Select your Keyboard Layout, click Yes
4. Skip Second Keyboard Layout (unless you want one)
5. Let it keep going, it might restart (mine did)
6. At the Account screen select Set Up For An Organization then click Next
7. At the “Sign In With Microsoft” screen select “Domain join instead”
8. At the “What name do you want to use?” screen enter your new Windows user account name and click Next
9. At the Password screen enter a password for your Windows user account and click Next
10. Re-enter your password and click Next
11. Set up a security question/answer - Or do like I do & fake them all e.g. select a security question then enter random gibberish alphanumeric text - and click Next
12. (do the same for all 3 security questions)
13. Select your Privacy settings then click Accept
14. Accept or skip any customizations you want (I usually Skip)
15. For Cortana you can click “Not Now” or “Accept” up to you

Done! You now installed Windows 10 Pro without a Microsoft Account.

Sounds like you’re assuming there was some legal issue that triggered this community blocking? Lemmy.world admins did not receive any legal notices prior to this action, it was just their kneejerk response to a troll from another instance. You can view it yourself, browse to the post via !support@lemmy.world or see it directly https://lemmy.world/post/3175920

You can browse to it via !support@lemmy.world or see the post directly https://lemmy.world/post/3175920

EDIT: Lemmy.world seems to be down right this second so you may not be able to load it, LOL.

Piracy subreddits still exist on Reddit. Lemmy.world admins are apparently blocking communities that even Reddit allows.

Idk if it’ll let you edit them without deleting them.

Yup it does, that’s how I used it. Did a cycle to edit with random words, afterwards checked if it worked & if it looked okay went ahead with a delete.

The edit feature is to create a new entry on the database in case reddit isn’t actually deleting comments from their database when they show as deleted. Although if they’re doing that then they probably keep a change log of the comments as well.

You know I thought that too. But I’ve seen some people talk about their GDPR data requests & they received the last edited version of their posts/comments, not the original. The data request doesn’t even contain anything like a change log of every post/comment. But I guess you could argue the data request is fulfilled with just the last version regardless of how many versions of the same post/comment actually exists.

I used Power Delete Suite. It does work fine with one caveat: It’ll only action on posts/comments that are displayed in your Reddit user profile.

You’d think that’s enough but I’m pretty sure Reddit’s own backend database is broken. There are definitely posts/comments within Reddit that are yours but won’t display in your own Reddit profile. Like I think for older accounts sometimes posts/comments get disassociated from your profile page & you won’t see them anymore unless you search around in reddit.com or via google.

For example before I deleted anything I did a backup using Power Delete Suite. Now that my Reddit user profile is mostly empty I am still finding old comments using the standard reddit.com search, & I can still edit/delete those manually even though they do not display in my Reddit profile. And interestingly they don’t appear in my backup file that was created with Power Delete Suite - Leading me to believe that these comments exist in Reddit’s database but somehow got detached from displaying in my main Reddit profile.

… so depending how you want to go about it, maybe don’t close your Reddit account right away. You may need it if you want to search for & edit/delete posts/comments that don’t display in your Reddit profile.