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Not to mention that if you want to type it in somewhere ( like your car for a Spotify account or whatever ) a passphrase like Hunter7-Tower-Ballsy9 is easier to type than some random gibberish with special chars.

In many places WhatsApp is the defacto standard unfortunately.....

If its not that its something like Viber, or badoo or telegram or some other nightmare service...

If you have kids there is also not really getting away from it. Friends of mine have never had Facebook accounts until they had kids because the local football team or boyscout or whatever only uses Facebook to communicate...

I agree you can live your life comfortably without meta services, but sometimes, like in the example above, you dont have any alternatives....

You can't keep harassing other parents to forward you messages or ask the team to print any messages specifically for you. Not having a Facebook account just gets "its easy to create" responses rather than "completely understandable, here's our private matrix server to stay in the loop".

Hey man,

Just let me buy my counterfeit art for € 1.3m

Remember when the real value were the people building amazing games and not just the IP?

Larion studios/krafton inc remembers.

And a smile. You gotta smile

They have their own launcher. Other times its gog.com, steam or epic.

I got things like both KOTOR games, deathloop, the force unleashed series and a few others.

I only really use it for the prime gaming free games :').

Note: codium and codeium are two completely separate products.

Idiocy trumps logic

Anonimity is keeping your identity private, but not your actions.

Privacy is keeping your actions hidden, but not your identity.

Using a VPN will hide your IP and make you more anonymous online. Using a personal CC to buy the vpn does not compromise that and does not defeat the purpose at all.

Only if your specific account ID is compromised could the personal CC be used against you by identifying you. E.g.: "they" found your bad email in an inbox of somebody who is less privacy conscious and are trying to figure out who festybear69@... is.

It depends on what your use-case/threat model is.

I think bitwarden checks all the boxes. It's 3.33$ per month for a family plan ( 6 users). I've used it for a long time and I'm happy with it.

If you want more privacy you can always self host vault warden and use that. In which case you have full access to the premium features and you just pay the hosting costs.

Bitwarden can be set as the default password manager in browsers. Stores TOTP codes, has a browser plugin, has android app and iOS app.

Works flawlessly in my experience ( Linux/macbook/android).

No experience with iphones, but I assume it is fully supported.

Any insight on why you prefer the nginx ingress vs the ALB ingress controller on AWS? you can group/combine ingresses as well and it will automatically load the correct certificate from ACM if it exists. Which means you won't have to mess around with certbot. Your TLS ends in the loadbalancer in that case though.

EKS managed addons now support custom configuration( might not have when you started out ) though maybe not all the custom features you're looking for are there. It's not as flexible as the helm chart obviously, but usually supports the most basic things you'd want to use.

Interesting read otherwise!

Personally I've had issues selling people on gitops/kustomize as they all find helm charts a lot easier.