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How do you connect with tor with the new icecat v60.3? I dont know what tor is or what it does but apparently it helps with muh privacy or something so im kinda interested
Theres a new button thingymajig at the top right but I dont know how to use it
Andrew Gutierrez
Use the Tor Browser.
Noah Harris
What does a unix newfag who's paranoid about being surveil'd upon to do, distro-wise? I used to use windows7 on 'traditional' hardware, but intelME spooked me enough that I jumped ship to a libreboot X200 w/ Trisquel preinstalled However now I am all paranoid about systemd so I'm thumbing my way through non-systemd distros but I really don't know enough at the moment to decide intelligently My usecase is pretty mundane all things considered I just want to shitpost and collate my ebook and music collections in privacy, nothing that really NEEDS to be super-secure please advise
Dominic Brooks
Tor is a network of proxies, it works like this: You -> Many circling proxies -> Server. When you want to run a connection through the Tor network, you go to the program's network settings and set your connection to localhost:torport. However, when you use it with a web browser, it's recommended to use the Tor Browser to avoid browser fingerprints.
Ryder Watson
green is my pecker
Jason Adams
Calibre is the best for ebooks and works basically everywhere, even Mac and Windows. Use whatever distro you want, although if you're going non systemd it might be worth trying Slackware.
Hudson Bailey
systemd is free software. It's not spying on you. Install a .deb bistro and then use your computer to do stuff instead of making your computer something to do.
Brandon Campbell
gentoo and i3-gaps have you heard of a comfier setup?
