Bipartisan is a really bad sign. My money says this is not going to be aimed at actually addressing the underlying profit motive that drives big tech to purposefully promote misery through their algorithm designs, instead it will be further restriction on users freedoms and privacy.
RDP is kind of limited because it’s a virtual session. It’s useful if you only need to do stuff while you’re actively connected but you can’t, for example, remote in and start an app or process going and then disconnect and have that app continue. When you d/c your profile is essentially logged out. Your activity also can’t be viewed by a user on the remote system, if you needed to collaborate or assist somehow.
UltraVNC has worked ok for me for windows systems. It has some of that open-source clunk to the UI, but is pretty straight forward and does what I need.
These idiots can’t help themselves, and they don’t understand that they’re hurting their own chances. Their brains simply aren’t wired to comprehend that normal human beings don’t respond positively to this stuff.
I did this during an international trip last year coming back into the country. The guy mostly seemed confused and kind of suspicious, but it was nbd.
They will potentially take you out of line to a side room to hand you off to someone else. It seemed to be an area where they deal with any oddball kind of things. There was a lady ahead of me who was more raucus and upset about some issue with her ID. The guy who checked mine mainly seemed kind of bemused, like it was unusual.
Be prepared for “We have the biometric data from your photo already, why do you care?”
You’re not obligated to give them a super detailed justification. Just remain polite and unconfrontational, and explain that you prefer not use the system as long as the right remains afforded to you to opt out.
I can’t say about XP or 7 but they’ve definitely saved my bacon on Win10 before on my home system. And the company I work for has them automatically created and it made dealing with the problem much easier as there was a restore point right before the crowdstrike update. No messing around with the file system drivers needed.
I’d really recommend at least creating one at a state when your computer is working ok, it doesn’t hurt anything even if it doesn’t work for you for whatever reason. It’s just important to understand that it’s not a cure all, it’s only designed to help with certain issues (primarily botched updates and file system trouble).
It might partly be that a lot of what is designed for a screen is made deliberately to be maximally appealing to begin with.
For example a film or tv show is shot with various lenses that create pleasing depth of field, color and light is carefully controlled. Same with high fidelity video games. Even the UI of your applications is made to be appealing and clean.
Sports are sort of shot like films too, and often the cameras can resolve much higher detail than our eyes alone can. The way a sports event is shot in high def can be like gaining the visual abilites of a hawk or something. The lens can zoom in close while our eyes can only squint.
Biden is basically a guarunteed loss, so anyone advocating Biden when there’s the possibility of replacing him with someone who polls better, like Harris, want a dem loss. It’s really that simple.
There aren’t enough pep talks or backhanded memes that will change Biden’s inability to drive out voters.
Is it possible to just hide the computer or to try and mask it as something else?
That’s kind of what the anti-fingerprinting settings in browsers are meant to do. A lot of the info that sites like reddit and many others use to identify you are based on browser settings and data. This is stuff like your canvas/monitor size, timezone, browser/OS version etc. Note that not all browsers have anti-fingerprinting settings.
Anti-fingerprinting isn’t perfect though, it’s just one tool to help scramble your identifiable info a bit. Ironically, really strict security settings themselves can also be used as a unique identifier, because you basically stand out against the crowd of normal users as an anomaly, so it’s a double-edged deal.
That’s why I recommend using a different computer to create the account and don’t use the official reddit app at all, make sure that the browser cache and cookies for the reddit site are wiped before going to create the account. If you can’t use a VPN, you’ll maybe want to go to a cafe or somewhere public to create ypur account. That first IP that reddit sees seems to be most important, once you establish yourself on that IP for a bit, you can potentially start using your home network.
The reason your other accounts got banned together was because reddit was able to link them closely enough that they IDed them as alts. They collect data and build up a correlation, your aim is to make it difficult as possible for them to correlate separate accounts.
This is all just trial and error by me though, I’m no expert and we can’t know for sure all the efforts reddit takes to ID users, I can only speak for what worked for me ~1 year ago or so. I’d read up on browser fingerprinting to get an idea of how that tracking works and how to combat it (it’s actually really gross and distressing to anyone concerned with privacy).
Alternatively, you could leave your router off all night and see if you can get a new public IP, though you may need to ask your ISP to issue you a new public IP address. They might not do it without justification, but that would go a long way to giving you a fresh start, especially with the other measures I’ve outlined.
I don’t use reddit anymore, but I’ve had plenty of accounts banned there, mostly for arguing with sock puppets and tankies and stuff who will stalk your account and mass report anything that can be construed as even remotely violating the rules. Or one of the power mods just back channels the admins, who will ban based on that alone, no questions asked.
The key is, you need to create your new account on a separate computer (so the browser fingerprint they get is unrelated), use a VPN for the creation, build up enough karma to get past the automated systems (answering stuff on AskReddit was usually my go to, but don’t spam, take your time and give thoughtful answers) then make sure you use strong anti-fingerprinting settings on your browser on whayever device you plan on using. Possibly use a different third-party app on your phone (though I dunno how well this works since the API changes). Boost worked well for me, and Bacon Reader. And obviously delete your browser/app cache if you eventually use your main device.
Also, when you create your new account, sub to a bunch of shit you normally wouldn’t, if you’re not a sports fan sub to a baseball subreddit, avoid subbing to any niche subreddits you had on your old account for a while. Try to be bland and unremarkable in your choices.
The key is to avoid as many connected data points to your old account as possible until you’re pretty well established as “someone else”. Avoid attracting too much attention, and have multiple accounts that live on separate devices (I had one that I used on my phone only, and usually only when not at home so it was a separate IP) and one I used at home. Then a couple created on a laptop that were just kind of aging, just in case.
That might seem like great lengths to circumvent a ban, but I have a thing about abuse of power where it just kind of sticks in my craw, plus getting one over on the reddit admins was fun and I was curious exactly how deep their profiling went. I left the site on my terms eventually, which puts a smile on my face.
They actually don’t even need Israel, Turkey is our NATO ally already and has the same access to the sea. Obviously Erdogan is a authoritarian dickshit, but at least they’re not actively committing a genocide.
Israel has no dramatic geopolitical value to the US at this point, they’re basically just a client. Though you wouldn’t think it by the way Netanyahu yanks Biden around by his testicles. The unquestioning support for Israel is ideological for people like Biden, and for others it’s all the money from AIPAC and JStreet
They really need to stop being spineless and so avoidant of offending Biden. He needs to be told to his face by as many democrats as possible to step down, because he literally is too thick and senile to grasp the political “hints” democrats are trying to send him.
The decades of propaganda about veganism by the meat and dairy industry is deeply embedded in cultures at this point, conservative culture especially.
People have been trained so thoroughly that they literally have a visceral, irrational response to the word veganism. It’s been made impossible to actually talk about in a coherent way with most people, and lemmy has a lot of redditor refugees who carry that kind of thing with them.
I’m not sure if it’s different per instance, but in lemmy.world instance you go out to the feed and scroll to the bottom. You can search by user name and such.
Bipartisan is a really bad sign. My money says this is not going to be aimed at actually addressing the underlying profit motive that drives big tech to purposefully promote misery through their algorithm designs, instead it will be further restriction on users freedoms and privacy.