Developer of NeedCoolerShoes, the site in question here. Yes, absolutely correct, spot on! For anyone else interested in researching this more, the technique is called farbling.

In fact, as my tool also has layers, this subtle noise would compound with each additional layer added, until the noise was not subtle at all.

I received many bug reports about this, and it took me ages to track down the root cause, by asking users what browsers they were using and joining the dots.

I do worry that maybe I worded the popup poorly leading some more skeptical folk to worry my site was attempting to fingerprint them, which it is not.

Zerotier has been the best alternative in my experience.

The following is just my own assumptions, take with a grain of salt.

Phones are often taken out to perform a quick task, then stashed back in a pocket/bag many times a day. As such, being able to unlock a phone quickly is a rather useful feature.

On the other hand, laptops are usually taken out to be used for larger tasks, and as such, do not need to be unlocked as often.

Fingerprint scanners add less value to a laptop than they do a phone.

My dad got me a Linux laptop as a kid (I was 10 I think?), and I am so grateful that he did.

To be fair, I already had a huge passion for computing, and it meant that I would constantly toy around with Linux, breaking things and learning how to fix them.

I have been a Linux user ever since, and I feel have learnt so much about computing because of it.

(I started on Ubuntu 12.04, with the glorious Unity desktop)

Suyu has to be an ironic name right?

aight np

I’m a web dev, happy to lend a hand if need be.

adhd prolly idk

Using Rice/Ricing is perfectly fine. Words change meaning and evolve with different communities. In a Linux minded community such as this, you’ll be hard pressed to find people that will confuse Ricing for anything other than a fancy DE/WM.

Most people will understand Rice by the r/unixporn definition: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/wiki/themeing/dictionary/#wiki_rice

I love xonotic!

Do you know why there’s KDE, XFCE and others? Because there’s also a lot of people who dislike GNOME.

If we are getting pedantic here, the above quote is clearly implying that alternatives exist and are actively developed because people dislike GNOME. Your statement does not take in to account the possibility that people just like the other alternatives, and may still like GNOME as well, or feel indifference towards it.

No one is claiming that GNOME has the superior desktop experience. Rather, GNOME has a more opinionated experience, that suits some people, and not others. For some people, it will be superior. For others, they will prefer KDE, XFCE etc.

Umm well akshually 🤓👆: KDE doesn’t exist because people don’t like GNOME lol. GNOME was made because KDE uses QT, which used to be proprietary.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#History

unironically

wdym, its Tribblicious™️

Thanks for the reply :)

Good site, thank you! :)

Thanks for the recommendations! (I should have done this around Black Friday lol, that would have been smart)

Heh, I think the link is a little broken…

No issues tho, others have linked it in other comments. Thanks for the reply!

Thanks for the recommendations! Linking to a build was a nice touch :)

This is all a lot to take in lol, I might have to start a spreadsheet.

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