Never stay logged in with any device on Google & use a VPN for Twitter

Twitter users baiting other people into liking their post by lying that there's a new like animation.

Perhaps there should be government controlled licenses for some technologies

He kinda looks like that puppet from Five Nights at Freddy's

I do care because I don't want to fall victim to their dark patterns and be coerced into providing them with free market research

This right here. 100%.

I'm pretty sure Mental Outlaw helped a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBhDWTZDH9c

It's Odysee.com showcasing a banner of popular Linux YouTuber "Mental Outlaw" (https://www.youtube.com/@MentalOutlaw/videos) on their landing page

I did so when I was uninstalling it. Great piece of software

I have no clue what a RAID is to be honest. I was using a VM with 6 GB RAM to do some work in another operating system and passed through my physical hard drive (Host to Guest) to write the data on when suddenly my VM got stuck.

Funny you say that because I'm submitting the ticket because I can't migrate my account.. Speak of irony

I did initially try this on two different browsers, Firefox & Librewolf (with uBlock) and it didn't work. After reading your comment, I downloaded ungoogled Chromium, didn't install any addons or change any settings and it worked. Thank you!

My filesystem was NTFS

I've seen a quick video about it on YouTube from a reputable Windows security YouTuber. Can't remember which exactly, probably "ThioJoe" or "The PC Security Channel". I wrote the softwares name down a long time ago and decided to give it a try today.

Times simular to your exaggeration will come and people will say "But it's their service! If you want to use it, you have to follow their rules". Not understanding that they're slowly handing over control over their lives because we live in a modern time where everything is about technology. Sad to see how many people don't understand this and disagree with me when I say that I'm infuriated over this.

The 44 GB of data that got lost consisted of 191 files each around ~220 MiB in one single folder. I used testdisk to inspect my drive and I couldn't find the data..

TAKING THE PISS 100

Also worth mentioning is "Session". Doesn't require a phone number or email.

It actually might be, because now a magic file appeared on my hard drive (a file that was once deleted) that I can't delete. When I try to delete it, even with admin rights, it says No such file or directory

I understand that Google already has my phone number. That's not so much of a problem for me. I am trying to limit the amount of personal information that I hand out to websites & services. I believe that companies shouldn't need my personal phone number to create, maintain or secure my account. If I need security, I'll install 2FA TOTP. If not, that's still my decision and I shouldn't be forced. Especially not in form of having to provide my phone number.