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You’d be surprised how often DDOS can be an inside job.

Glares at marketing department

I managed to work around it by unchecking “wait with pageload until all the blocklist are loaded” in ublock origin. Seems to work like normal now, though I’m unsure if that is actually a fix. I guess it might have some negative side effects like some ads coming through.

Oh hang on. My ad blocker was disabled. I turned it off to test something because my browser kept hanging when surfing the web on my phone.

It is related to ublock origin for some reason. Because the moment I turn it off I can browse like normal.

Case solved why I’m getting it :)

It takes a (short while to show ). I also have uBlock origin in my phone ( with fennec ) and it did show for me for some reason

I was on fennec, but I’ll have a look! :)

I got a video that started playing which only had an arrow to expand but no x to close. It kept following while scrolling.

Not sure why my ad blocker didn’t block it.

Edit: after staying on the page for about a minute it just auto showed up

That was one god awful website. Holy shit. Why would anybody willingly visit that site. Wtf

Worth every goddamn cent I paid for it.

I just checked,

google photos has permanent access to photos and videos. If you disable the app the camera roll no longer works. I get “activity not found”.

Maybe with a FOSS camera app it might still work? I haven’t tried.

Edit: and that is the only permission which it has ( photos and videos ). Everything else ( location, contacts, … ) is not allowed. But that one permission is auto permanently allowed.

If you disable Google photos storage access you don’t even have a camera roll :/

That’s how embedded the damn thing is

You are correct. I misread ( or my brain farted ) and looked up the wrong one.

Libreoffice their latest blogpost is from the 20th of August 2025. There have been a few releases in the past few months as well.

Openoffice their latest ( Apache Openoffice 4.1.15 ) was released almost 2 years ago ( December 2023 ).

Libreoffice seems like a more recent, better supported tool over Openoffice which hasn’t seen any updates since 2023 according to their own website.

I’m on my phone, so I didn’t search extensively. But I think that also plays a role in why there’s a much larger fanbase for libreoffice rather than Openoffice.

I’ve no recent experience with either so I can’t comment on how well either works.

Edit: I looked up the wrong one. My statement remains correct w.r.t. Openoffice, but they mentioned Onlyoffice which is a different product.

Connections timing out have always been a firewall issue for me.

Client sends packet, firewall drops packet, client waits for a reply that’ll never come. Client times out.

I would check firewall logs or temporarily disable it to see if it works without it.

so yeah check the firewall on the server, the client and in between ( if any ). That’s what I would do.

TIL doctors are easily shocked horrified.

Flatpaks are more common on the atomic distros I guess?

You also didn’t mention Ubuntu snaps. Which is the greatest horror of them all. I wondered why people kept using firefox since it was so goddamn slow. But it turned out to be a snap which just needed 6+ seconds of initial startup time ( every time there was no active browser ). Switching to a .deb installation made Firefox the snappy ( hah! ) program I expected it to be.

I will never install Ubuntu again unless they completely ditch snaps.

Half life 3 will simply never live up to the hype/fantasy people have for it ( I think ).

After all this time I feel they’re either never going to release it, or release it when the bar from the public becomes… Realistic.

I wish there were more banks offering virtual CCs.

If windows is free why are they still selling windows licenses. you might get* a free upgrade between 10/11. But windows is not free.

Eeeeh. I’m glad it’s working out of the box for all those people then. But that doesn’t really help you out.

Unfortunately I don’t own any of these games so I can’t test it to see if I could help out. Bizarre that you’re running into issues considering the games I checked are steam deck verified. Black Mesa people mention using the proton rather than the native ( Linux ) version.

If mullvad is wireguard based you can always import the wireguard config in your network manager and connect that way. It’s what I did for my VPN. Downside is that you won’t be able to use any features the app would offer you ( besides the VPN connection ).

Sorry I can’t be of more help. :(