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I’ve heard it from a Hungarian friend.

Dropping the spoon. :)

If Firefox is now considered a bad choice based on what the new CEO said, what do you think of Ladybird’s leader?

https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html (relevant section about halfway through)

Off the top of my head, no. What I do remember is that I couldn’t use Librewolf as my daily browser because I had trouble using every other website. Might be an exaggeration, and it could have been due to other factors, not just resisting fingerprinting.

I’ve just come across this article: https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html

The author describes the situation pretty well:

you enable fingerprinting resistance in Firefox, or use Librewolf, you’ll immediately encounter oddities. Most obviously, every time you open a new browser window, it will be the same size. Resizing the window may have odd results, as the browser will try to constrain certain screen elements to common size multiples. In addition, you won’t be able to change the theme.

You’ll probably find yourself facing more ‘CAPTCHA’ and similar identity challenges, because your browser will be unknown to the server. Websites don’t do this out of spite: hacking and fraud are rife on the Internet, and the operators of web-based services are rightly paranoid about client behaviour.

You’ll likely find that some websites just don’t work properly, in many small ways: wrong colours, misplaced text, that kind of thing. I’ve found these issues to be irritations rather than show-stoppers, but you might discover otherwise.

It could be done on the browser level (maybe it’s something browsers like LibreWolf do), however, it would break sites that require the fingerprints to be the same for “security reasons” which may or may not be a legitimate claim.

You could say “well, I’m not going to use that particular website then”, but the problem is that there are less and less websites that don’t require these technologies to function properly.

In case you are willing to use the beta version of the app: if I remember correctly it’s available in beta.

One hour seems too long for a nap. Have you tried shorter ones, e. g. 20 minutes? AFAIK napping for only a few minutes doesn’t affect you much, too long of a nap causes issues you described.

It seems to have been fixed, try this: GitHub

Or try the suggestion above (revert to the old kernel).

I’m no expert either, but I think the section mentioned above allows Nebula and the advertising companies to do a lot more than just collecting info about whether you visited the sign-up page or not.

To me it looks like they do just that:

Interest-Based Advertising. We may work with third-party advertising companies and social media companies to help us advertise our business and to display ads for our products and services. These companies may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about you (including the online activity information and device information described above in the section called “Personal Information Automatically Collected”) over time across our Services and other websites and services or your interaction with our emails, and use that information to serve ads that they think will interest you. In addition, some of these companies may use hashed customer lists that we share with them to deliver ads to you and to similar users on their platforms.

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One can only undefined

I completely agree, I guess what they call “privacy win” is that this feature can now work without storing data on Google (highlighted by me):

Based on Google’s email, it seems the company will allow Gemini to access messages, WhatsApp, and control device system settings without requiring that you enable the Gemini Apps Activity setting for your account. This setting saves your Gemini history to your Google account, potentially allowing for better personalization.

Previously, if you had this setting disabled for your Google account, you weren’t able to use the Messages, Phone, Utilities, or WhatsApp extensions in Gemini (via 9to5Google). Once this change rolls out to your account, you will be able to access these features without having to save your Gemini history on Google’s servers.

When they say

potentially allowing for better personalization

they sound like the companies trying to sell you these features without mentioning the privacy implications of said features. :/

In #1 when you say the monitor displays the DE, is the Dock visible? If not, it could be that you’re trying to interact with the DE but the dock and application launcher is on the laptop display.

I didn’t have to change any config values and it works. The only other thing I can think of is that I have Gnome Tweaks installed and the ‘Suspend when laptop lid is closed’ is disabled in the ‘General’ tab.

Another thing to try is to see what Pop!_OS outputs in the /var/log/syslog file when this happens. What I would suggest you do is:

1. open the terminal app
2. type sudo /var/log/syslog -f (this will start writing all sorts of messages to the screen)
3. do your step #1 (when it becomes unresponsive)
4. open the lid again so the system becomes reponsive
5. press Ctrl + c to stop outputting the contents of the systog file.

Scroll up and see if there’s any error, warning or something to that affect in the log related to power management, displays or the desktop environment.

And one more thing which is probably obvious: make sure your system is up do date (both the operating system and the BIOS).

I blocked Microsoft in WhatsApp and they reverted back to sending SMS messages. However, this won’t help if you (like me) I refuse to install Microsoft apps on your phone.

Whereabouts are you riding? Group ride?

Children with stupid names should be allowed to change their parents’ names!

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