Vlyn

So try having at least 3 different passwords for personal accounts/websites

That's an awful take. Grab a password manager and have a random password for every single account of yours. That way all you have to do is remember a single strong password and that's it. Instead of playing Russian roulette when one service you use gets hacked and someone gets a hold of your username / email and one of your 3 different passwords..

When it happens again open the task manager (might take a while), go to performance and look at your SSD. Is it at 100% disk usage?

I had this problem a few times before and it's annoying as hell. One time it was a Windows Store hiccup where it started to update in the background. One time Windows update. One time Nvidia Broadcast got stuck installing. And a lot of times I tried to play Apex Legends and EAC (Easy AntiCheat) scanned my entire drive for a few minutes..

I've tried a ton of tweaks, but start with the following (use CMD as Admin):

sfc /scannow → Scans for errors, will probably find some and fix them. Run again till no errors come up

chkdsk /f /r C: → Full SSD scan for broken sectors. Will probably ask you to restart, the scan happens after restarting. This fixed a ton of issues with my Windows 11 installation, even though the SSD tests and SMART showed no issues

The moment you make votes anonymous (which would theoretically be possible) you open up a million ways in which votes can be manipulated. So congratulations, that ad post from some random company has 12k upvotes now.

Only alternative is still connecting it to a user, but only registering that they voted (but not if it's an upvote or downvote, that's anonymous again), but then you can never change your vote again afterwards. So if you misclick the downvote button there is no way back.

With the current solutions in place, if you want to remain anonymous: Don't create an account, just lurk. Or don't upvote/downvote/comment on things. It's as easy as that.

Just like putting your real name online and then complaining when others can see it on Facebook.. your account is as anonymous as you want to make it.

I mean I didn't upvote or downvote porn on Reddit either. It's all personal information.

On Reddit there were plenty of people with access and the data was sold to advertisers.

Here it's public, not great but not terrible either. Also makes it easier to battle vote brigading?

Just don't vote then? Reddit also told advertisers what you're into, it was just over backchannels with money involved.

Or create an account that has no links to your private live, then you can vote as much as you want.

Bluetooth doesn't make much sense, as you usually only have one device active. But you can easily rule this out: If you have Android for example, long press the Bluetooth button, then check paired devices. Is there any device you don't recognize? Remove it. Done.

Bluetooth is usually encrypted, so if you didn't accidentally pair your device with your neighbor's there is no way they can listen in.

And even more important: Check for carbon monoxide in your home. You might be having health issues and are hallucinating or making things up.

Besides that: It might be possible your neighbor hears you talking on the phone (through the walls for example or with a bug in your home), but there is absolutely no way they'd hear the other side of the conversation. So either your side alone would already give them all the information or something else is up (see above).

There's no way this ends well. I can tell you exactly what would happen:

Meta creates a new fediverse app with their branding. Facebook users (and the general public) will start to see this as the fediverse. Like the official app/server/whatever. If it takes off millions of users will join on Meta instances and only hang out there (with some slight content influx at the start from other instances).

The moment they have enough content on Meta servers they'll defederate from everyone. The Meta users probably won't even notice, they are on massive Meta instances and 90%+ of the content is there.

Gratulations, you got Facebook 2.0, the rest of the fediverse dies.

No, I'm clumsy as shit, I nearly broke a toe once running against a door frame.

With my older phones I always used cases, so even if I did drop it (which happened rarely) nothing happened. With the S22.. I'm going without a case, so far only tiny drops (like out of my jeans when sitting down on the toilet). Knock on wood, it survived so far.

Next phone gets a case again, damn screen scratches :)

I haven't broken a single phone in the last 20 years :) Not even a screen crack.

My old phones all still work, including a Galaxy S, OnePlus One, OnePlus 5 and now my Galaxy S22. I have even older phones, but I can't remember their names.

Damn Galaxy S22 scratches like hell though, making the glass softer was a mistake.

That was released 6 years ago.. so what you have might be a bug that has been long fixed. Or the phone using WiFi for location services (to help GPS).

Either way, you need to update (custom ROM maybe?) or get a new phone. Using Android 8 is a security risk.

I did try custom OS in the past (Even overclocked my original Galaxy S), but they all had issues. Or were slow on updates and so on. Out of the box works best for me, I already tinker enough at work, I want my phone to just run :)

Not a fan of screen protectors, they all don't have great reviews, even the expensive glass ones. I also use the phone without a case, so the protector would make the handling of it worse unfortunately.

Thunderbird on Windows, I have used it as far as I can think back (10+ years).

On Android currently FairEmail because the native Gmail app sucks. But it's very much a power user app that's a bit complicated at first, but then works like a charm (It also has a one-time purchase of $5.99 for extra features, no ads, no tracking, no data sent to the app developer).