A firewall usually reads the rules from top to bottom and applies the first match. So when your first rule is deny everything , it will deny literally anything before the second rule will be applied.
Your deny rule should always be at the end.
I think you should provide more information about the rule you created.
- run the system completely without a gui, to save video RAM for other tasks
To be fair you can do these things with Windows too. There is a Windows server core edition without GUI.
Try switching to X11 if you are on Wayland.
Surely it’s for a mechanism to prevent hatespeech, right? Right?
you only need to do it once
More like once after a bigger update. Also you’ll always be paranoid that at some point the settings stopped working.
Abstract things like “better privacy” is not that valid for regular folks.
Why not? Normal folks can and should be concerned about privacy as well IMO.
Not sure if that’s a good idea but if you use Fedora, you also have your root on a BTRFS partition after a default installation. You could utilize the snapshot features of BTRFS to roll back after testing.
Yes of course, who doesn’t remember how woke Lenin created a woke revolution based on woke teachings of woke Marx and even woker Engels.