flashgnash

PC is powered off when not in use because it's only for gaming and occasionally a build server.

Laptop locked if I'm going out of sight of it, hibernated if I'm going away for more than half an hour or so/need to put it in my bag

Occasionally left on with the screen off if I need it for something remotely but then I'll remotely shut it down when I've got what I need

Does sound pretty reassuring assuming all that works for non http traffic too

It's hard to say whether it's difficult or not coming into it already knowing how to program

More people than not struggle to come to terms with what a variable is let alone all the stuff you can do in nix

There are definitely other hard parts, but I didn't want to write a wall of text lol

I don't imagine the app can do that anyway unless you explicitly give it permission to run in background at all times

I never got on with librewolf, it just feels like one of those things that doesn't really benefit me much and needlessly makes life harder

I would still always be worried it'd been silently bot netted or something if it's accessible, even through cloudflare

I guess cloudflare does a lot to stop attacks from bots though right?

Is that not essentially the same issue as opening your firewall though? You're still taking requests from outside your network into your network without any authentication until they actually hit the server

Either you make a deal with the devil or use the company that made the deal so you don't have to

Floorp is just Firefox with some extensions, Vivaldi iirc is still chromium underneath etc etc

Your best option is just plain old Firefox configured the way you like it

There are a couple of new "from the ground up" browsers being developed at the moment but they aren't ready from what I understand

People have already answered well enough though many of them mention IP addresses and you said you were non techy so wanted to add this

Giving away your IP address is not that big a deal, you do it every time you visit a website without a VPN or connect to pretty much any web service

(You still shouldn't post it publicly of course but it's unlikely your employer is going to dox you, and if they do it's probably illegal)

They didn't say their employer needed them to do it, they said they wanted to

As others have pointed out duo seems to collect pretty minimal data

The problem for me is I believe you need to open your network firewall for Lemmy and other federated services to work right?

Not really a fan of opening up more attack surface on my home network