What I did was clone my windows drive as a virtual machine on an external drive, like a flash drive, then, I wiped the drive, installed kubuntu, moved the VM back to the drive, and when I run into something that I’m like “I can’t find an alternative to this app on Linux” or “I need a copy of that one thing from my old windows install” I just boot it up, use the app and do what I need, or transfer the file over, and I’m good.

In my case I will admit, I did not wipe the windows drive and ended up dual booting, but not very often, just because I haven’t been able to get a vm to run smooth using virtual manager since I switched, running windows or Linux, pretty sure it’s because of Nvidia and their proprietary driver. If I don’t need GPU, I can use the VM just fine. But for specific games or software, switching to Windows on bare metal is handy.

I’d say the VM thing isn’t the best solution to the problem you’re facing, but it is a solution that can make the transition a little easier, it helped for me anyways, so I figured I’d share.

You can sideload apps, whether they are on the blocklist or not. That’s what the sentence* you quoted says. Well, that’s what I interpret anyways. Maybe I’m wrong.

You misunderstand, the list of apps they block are “inside” the said list, while sideloading apps “outside” of the said list is possible. So you can only find and install whatever apps they’ve approved within whatever app store they use to serve apps to their customers, but you can install any apk on the phone by sideloading it, given the app supports the phones CPU architecture of course.

I was watching a show the other day where the wealthy protagonist got his phone thrown to the grown and smashed by someone and he freaked out because it was a $200 phone. I think the episode is like 10 years old or so. Phones used to be cheap to own as well as cool.

Letterkenny, I think it gets good around the end of season 1 or beginning of 2. You still have to watch the first episodes to get an idea of who everyone is and their relationships though. Might have to do with just how strange the characters are in this random small town in Canada. It’s pretty tough at first, but once you get to the end of the first season, something clicks and the show becomes pretty hilarious.

Honestly, I think not having MFA required for any account anywhere ever is bad practice. As others have mentioned MFA is something you know, something you own, something that’s you, and somewhere you are. Password or pin, phone or digital key, biometric like a fingerprint or face, geolocation or IP address. Having more than one of these things makes getting into your account harder. If you only need a password, then that’s all someone needs to figure out to get into your account, same with all the other examples. I feel like it’s pretty straight forward, but I tried my best to explain why we do need both…

If you run a server with thousands of users interacting with each other and someone gains access to all their accounts, what’s the harm? I don’t care if someone gets access to what I have access to through the account on x website, so it doesn’t matter right? Well what if real user accounts were used as bots to push propaganda or silence a competitor, damaging the community you’re hosting on your server, or posting bad reviews on products, etc. you lose trust in that community or website.

Idk, to me, there is a bigger picture that requiring secure accounts produces, and I think it helps me have more trust in the website I’m joining and want to be part of. It’s just about helping ensure genuine interactions, it’d be nice if it was guaranteed, but it at least helps me feel assured.

tldr; MFA is important for securing the things inside of an account, but it’s also important for creating confidence and trust in who or what you’re interacting with on a website.