Oof, contacts being leaked is a bad one.
MangoPenguin
joined 2 years ago
The one that comes with your DE is generally just fine, unless you're a serious terminal user.
One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such
I think that's a quick way to nuke your install, LLMs are generally wrong about what commands to run and don't understand enough to know when something is dangerous. All it takes is changing one wrong file and everything breaks.
If you're a casual privacy user, then accepting monero and making accounts with no personal info isn't really something to be concerned about having.
Instead I would use a well known VPN with audits done that is shown to not hold logs, like Mullvad.
If you uninstalled the app or disabled it, then it can't run in the background.
makes me wonder what “services” are running in the background on my mobile.
A lot unless it's a degoogled ROM, especially on non-Pixel phones like Samsung, they add a massive amount of background processes.
The forks won't last long without firefox.
I guess the next best thing is a cheap used Pixel and flash it yourself, then you're recycling!
I'd say if you have a relatively clean phone such as a Pixel or another one with minimal bloat, and install a ROM that comes with all the google apps and everything, then the benefit is probably fairly minimal.
But if you do a degoogled ROM then it's a huge difference. Stuff like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS.
Or if you have a phone with a ton of bloat and additional crap added like Samsung or the many Chinese brands, then even a ROM like LineageOS with google apps would be a big improvement in where data is getting sent.
Is there no way to backup your saves before attempting the transfer? Like just copy the save file?
You can use a VPN client that supports split tunneling.
I believe the openvpn client does, and there's also https://tunnl.to/
Yes but it should always be opt-in. Just present a nice message telling users how it helps development with a checkbox they can hit.
I've been using Zen which is nice and has some stuff removed that we don't want.
But it'll only be around as long as Firefox is around.
Yeah, running a 240V 50A outlet in a garage in most homes would be fairly cheap, since it's usually not going very far from the main panel. So might as well do it if you're already spending a huge chunk of change on an electric car.
The last time we hired an electrician to run about 30 feet from a panel to a new 50A sub-panel across the shop for a project was around $800 IIRC.