Idk how apps “inform” the password manager (maybe via url’s in a metadata file or maybe passwors managers have ro keep theor own internal db?),

no idea about 1password, but bitwarden uses the package name (unique to each app), prepended with a special url scheme

I fear just the same will happen to all the other encrypted messengers too, to discourage everyone from using it. it’s a bit like if this was connected to the same gang that so much wants to outlaw secure encryption

I’ve set it up last December for 3 systems, changed the collection interval from the default 1 minute to 15 sec, and now it uses 15 GB

Besides the caveats about disks living longer if they are kept spinning,

I think that’s not necessarily true. I think spinning 24/7/365 has its downsides too, higher temperatures and others I’m less certain about.

are there reasons why I shouldn’t setup a cron job (well, a systemd timer) that runs hdparm -Y every 10 minutes? (for example, could hdparm -y cause errors if run while the drive is being backed up?)

because you’ll often shut it down while someone would be using it. and then it can spin up immediately. the processes accessing it would probably hang for half a minute or such.

there is a better solution, hd-idle, as said in the other response

hd-idle is the solution. it’s strictly better than the HDDs own feature, because if you have some system monitoring software that queries your disk stats every minute, that will always reset that timer. hd-idle is smarter than that.

how do you remote control HTPC?

wireless keyboard and mouse is not a real solution. all other such devices that you mentioned used a handheld remote controller

that is exactly what the parents will not accept, as stated by OP

it says “games that was made in the city”

btw grafana does make connections out, at least for when installing plugins, possibly more.

if you are not in the EU, they even load fucking fecesbook scripts on their main website! a few months ago that was happening in the EU too. if you’re in the EU, you can see it for yourself with thea VPN or the Tor browser, request a new circuit until the bottom one is USA or something like that, and check the network traffic with the devtools (reload the site if you don’t see it there)

even if this is not the case in the EU (for now), there are no excuses for doing this. no, letting your website be handled solely by marketing heads is not an excuse.

it’s a bit more complicated than that. grafana is only for displaying of the collected info. you still need a database, and something that collects data from systems.

what I do is grafana + prometheus for storage + prometheusnode exporter for collection.
but, I’m not totally satisfied with this setup, because long term storage is unsolved (cranking up the retention time in prom will maje sure it’ll cost a lot of storage after a few months), and I haven’t found a way to collect info about top users of resources (e.g. top 10 processes by cpu usage)

at that point we could just flip the switch for the case insensitive mode

I don’t understand, could you reword it?

yes, it was made for Firefox too. did I say it wasn’t? but I think there was no real reason for anyone to use it on Firefox.

I thought they have lost that a few months ago. Firefox though claimed that

• they will keep Mv2 support for some time
• their version of Mv3 will keep the superior network filtering API

I can’t think of a reason why it wouldn’t be possible

I was in the impression that the protocol was designed with that in mind that the server can do certain things in response to certain other things happening. I think the room membership management part of the client spec writes about this.

But yeah, this can probably change, especially that they are now doing versioning

yeah, on Firefox it’s not really useful, other than for very underpowered mobile devices. it was only made because of chrome.

because of the lack of capabilities I think regular uBO with only the default lists would be the same as uBOL performance wise, and more effectivein cleaning up websites in all aspects

that too, but not just that. how does access control work, how is memory safety around the receiving and authenticating code, is the traffic encrypted and how…because keystrokes, and I think mouse actions are also sensitive

I don’t see how it’s unusable as a chat platform. Yeah it’s not suitable for becoming a social media platform, but isn’t that a plus for a chat app?

haven’t been following what’s going on with fediseer, but it’s good that we have something like it! :) I especially like that cloudflare instances are automatically hesitated, and that there are different levels of mistrust

on the more technical side, for x86, chromebooks have a special UEFI firmware that only makes it possible to boot chromeos, and so the first step is to replace it with the firmware distributed by MrChromebox, which makes it work similarly to a regular laptop.

but, MrChromebox does not have firmware for ARM chromebooks, so replacing the OS may not be that “easy” in your case. if you don’t find a way, it’s best to treat it as an untrusted device, and follow what I have written in my other comment