[-] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

😈😈 Finally an advantage to using rEFInd 😈😈

[-] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Thanks. I'm still learning how Lemmy works πŸ˜…

[-] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
[-] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Can you give some examples πŸ˜…

[-] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 88 points 2 months ago

I've read the "learn more" bit now and I'm going to leave it switched on. (although I use uBlock anyway β€πŸ˜…)

I think this is a legitimate attempt to 'fix' the internet. It seems only very basic information on interactions with ads is recorded by the browser, and then it is anonymised. As an example, the advertiser should only receive counts of how many people bought a product after seeing a particular ad. I don't think they can see what webpage anyone in particular came from, but maybe they can see that: 11% percentage of visitors came from example.com/some-page

Presumably the anonymised data is only provided once the pool is fairly large and wouldn't show 100% of visitors came from cornhub when you only had one visitor πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ Obviously websites will always see an IP address.

The idea is for this to substitute for traditional, more invasive, tracking. I think it may one day achieve that.

A warning though: I only just started reading about this.

[-] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

Excuse me while I go and click that 'learn more' button...

[-] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

A ghost πŸ‘»

[-] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

You can't trust what you can't see.

[-] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I was trying to avoid making it more complicated, but I might actually look into this anyway. It seems it might be a more tidy way to install them all together. Thanks πŸ‘

[-] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

--- Thank you to everyone for replying. I'm pretty satisfied now that there is no trick to prevent grub installing unless an option is given during installation. Maybe in future, more distros will have the option πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

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submitted 6 months ago by UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I use rEFInd as my boot manager and sometimes I like to dual boot a new linux distro (just to try out) which I install with a live USB. Unfortunately, after installing, GRUB has always taken the reigns and it becomes a slight inconvenience to get back to rEFInd every time.

Is there some trick that can request grub not to install?

[What prompted me to ask was I tried KaOS yesterday, and during installation it asked what bootloader i wanted and included the option for 'none'.]

UnH1ng3d

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