Yeah, that’s really the most straightforward solution unfortunately.

In case you’re not already familiar look into sunshine/moonlight for quick access to the windows machine

If you need to use abusive windows software while retaining some privacy you really have 2 options:

1. Have a separate PC with windows and your games installed. Isolate your activities so all your normal work and personal stuff is on linux, and then you switch input on your display, or use sunshine/moonlight to access windows when you want to.

2. Use linux and do all your gaming etc. in a windows VM. This is what I do but it is not easy to set up, if you’re interested in this idea keep it in mind and come back to it later.

If you’re using VM hostile software though which it sounds like you are, #2 becomes even more complicated so I say bite the bullet and do #1.

Dualboot is pretty ass and breaks all the time. I strongly suspect that was part of your issue

I am baffled to read you had to troubleshoot your linux installation every day, what kind of distro were you using?

Sorry you didn’t have a good time.

If you know what you’re doing yes (not guaranteed to work in all games), but you’re always at constant threat of being potentially banned.

The info is hard to find but I assure you tons of people play anticheat games in VMs all the time. I personally avoid those games so I don’t know the specifics of all the tricks they do to hide the VM.

Being it’s a VM I could see some people just restoring from a template if they get banned and not really caring. No way to be hardware banned afaik.

This VM detection and VM anti detection is a reguarly evolving arms race, and some games invest a LOT more effort into staying on top of it than others.

There is no evidence. safety is about staying multiple steps ahead and risk mitigation when possible.

Centralized servers are a single point of failure that could be compromised in the future.

My contact’s devices they use signal on are insecure and could be easily compromised in the future.

SMS/Cell network in general are insecure as hell and I avoid it as much as possible.

Why would I expose all that sensitive data when there’s literally no need to? Simplex works great for me.

stremio works on ios dude you just have to add the web ui to homescreen and use external player

Yeah, for me personally I’m sticking to simplex. I can get an anonymous sim card, but none of the people I’d be talking to would do that. I don’t want this relationship/network map out there at all if I can avoid it.

Huh? You mean manifest v3?

Wow I didn’t know about this, very blatant.

LocalSend can also send installed .apks if you’re on android.

Localsend is just awesome in general, use it if you need to send files wirelessly over lan

Since you asked

It’s a proprietary closed source flavor of chrome which supports google’s monopoly and does not respect your privacy or freedom.

Here is some quick info if you’re interested: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/opera

https://digdeeper.club/articles/browsers.xhtml

https://digdeeper.club/articles/liftingtheveil.xhtml

If you don’t like that I’d suggest looking at librewolf (firefox/gecko based) or ungoogled chromium (chromium based)

ya the desktop gui is pretty ram hungry as well. It’s not perfect but weighing the pros and cons of all available options I have come to like and appreciate simplex quite a bit. The client has also gotten a lot better recently.

The main downside on android for me is the battery drain but I think that is a consequence of me not using google push notifications

Simplex is an option, you can host your own servers and it has crossplatform GUI + CLI

I think it’s pretty cool, and it’s pretty easy to set up (there are a lot of options you may wanna look at though)

https://simplex.chat/

https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat

Just wanted to say I’m still using and enjoying this, thank you for providing an onion to us

You don’t have to download a cracked .iso, you can download legit windows from microsoft’s website, and then use massgrave MAS (Microsoft Activation Script) On github to activate it

Interesting, thank you for letting me know about that.

I wish KDE Connect was able to integrate this feature but I’m sure if it was easy it would already have been done

EDIT: Got GrayJay Fcast set up, pretty cool! Thanks.

As far as the HDMI cord I use that all the time and young people ask “is that aircast?” lol

Maybe look into residential proxies

I have a w11 KVM with a 4080 passed through it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be

I highly recommend you try, it’s sweet

Alright thank you very much for the info.

Proxmox is really cool you should check it out when you get a chance regardless