Here is Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons latest podcast. He is interviewing a cyber security expert and at the time stamp I gave he talks about the malware briefly. I’ve also read about this in the past as well but can’t supply evidence.

Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons Podcast: Life on the Blue Team Starting from: 00:23:02

Episode webpage: https://podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/04/14/life-on-the-blue-team/

Media file: https://media.blubrry.com/firewalls_dont_stop_dragons/content.blubrry.com/firewalls_dont_stop_dragons/2025-04-14_Ep424_Life_on_the_Blue_Team.mp3#t=1382

Block the email sender and don’t use the unsubscribe button as that can have malware

Totally agree

Care to elaborate?

One might try KDE Connect, Local Send, and Signal which has a desktop client

Gross

That sounds plausible but I’m trying to focus on the positive here

Let’s try and look at silver linings

What would be great is if price hikes cause people to purchase games that are worth it causing developers to release complete and feature rich games without further abysmal monetization strategies.

Use alternative ways of streaming content such as Kodi or Stremio with a debrid service that costs $17/6mo

Be prepared for your router to not work until you figure out how to set stuff up. So hopefully this isn’t your only router. I converted a router to OpenWRT and my knowledge of networking was super basic. It was very confusing but I did get it working in a few days. However, I couldn’t get some things working like a VPN or updating without wiping all my settings. OpenWRT is router firmware, not NAS software. You’ll need to run something like CasaOS, OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, etc for that.

This website is a great starting point for router configurations: https://routersecurity.org/#StartHere

I weight lift too and at my peak and any other time I never counted calories. I ate intuitively and foods from healthy sources. I understand everyone’s body metabolizes differently but I see, especially in the fitness world, people harming their minds by focusing too much on calories.

Counting calories is an unhealthy mental obsession. Please just stay active and eat healthy foods from a quality source not packed with crap ingredients. I’ve seen many people go down that path and it ends up doing a lot of harm to them mentally

I like getting audio books from Libro.FM. It’s all DRM free and some money gets donated to a bookstore of your choosing.

Ivpn, Proton, or mullvad

The only privacy related thing I can think of related to this is to delete the Messenger app. This is better posted in someother technology community.

What would you be referring to?

They make plenty of anti-consumer decisions

Not like the FTC did much to begin with

I haven’t used Acrescent but I believe it’s made by the GrapheneOS team. It’s focused on security, rather than totally FOSS programs.

IronFox is similar to what Mull was and similar-ish to fennec. You can also try Brave or Vanadium if you wish to go Chromium