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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I've been off of WhatsApp for about 7 years. My only communication options with everyone else are phone calls or Signal, and for those that will not use at least signal, we'll, you can always call me.

I have arcane chat, but only 1 friend of mine from church uses it with me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Last windows I used was 10,and I've always found it lacking in the screen capture arena. Full disclosure, I had no idea Flameshot had a windows version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Gnome has an extension called GSConnect which is their re-implementation of KDE Connect. I have in my tablet and phone, and it's flawless.

But don't change yet, give me until the weekend, I'll spin Fedora with KDE in my laptop, and come back with my experience with FlameShot.

No need to change if that's what you like and it ends up working.

Flameshot does require some tweaking to work anyway, so I'll need check if it's the same in KDE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I honestly haven't tried on KDE, but I can give it a shot this coming weekend and report back. I'm up for a distro hopping round anyway.

But in Gnome, dual screens, it works like a charm, also on Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Absolutely. And they update pretty quickly when YouTube breaks something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but this is about self hosting and it's costs, so the comparison is relevant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How are the Chinese data hoarders providing government your information to the government any worse than the US ones doing the same? VPNs are only a small part of the full arsenal needed for obfuscating your identity, and the nationality of any of them is irrelevant, as pretty much all governments are gathering data from them.

I don't trust Chinese VPNs, and I don't trust American VPNs, or Russian, or Israeli. I feel somewhat safer with Mullvad or Proton VPNs, and even then, they are worthless if you're relying only on VPNs.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (7 children)

FlameShot. In my opinion, the best and most versatile screen capture app for Linux distros, especially if you use Gnome as your DE.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

If you're referring to the com.android.adservices.api module, in the GrapheneOS discussion forums they clarify this: "This is an open source component of the Android Open Source Project providing an implementation of alternatives to tracking users for targeted advertising. It isn't enabled by default, doesn't use any Google services and is not a privacy issue in any way."

They also mention that: "GrapheneOS isn't going to enable these features since we don't have any reason to enable targeted advertising."

We all would love to be able to reset this, but we can't, plus it appears to be irrelevant to our privacy as long as we don't install Google Play Store and Google Play Services (which I have chosen to NOT install).

We can't reset of disable it because, and I quote: "However, the systems it provides are much better than the approaches preceding them based on identifiers. Google Play provides an optional advertising ID which can be regenerated or disabled but most other SDKs don't provide similar controls.", so it seems that, because I don't have the optional advertising ID that Google Play provides, I can't, nor do I need to, reset or delete the ID.

This is the link to that discussion: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/2156-why-theres-a-package-named-android-adservices-installed-out-of-the-box/10

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Delirium Tremens at -12 Celsius 😍

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Glad this is happening. These are the same news outlets that provide Google with your information and pay Google for ads.

They can all bust for all I care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I get it, but GrapheneOS is meant to "disallow" those things precisely because they invade our privacy.

 

At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Because of crap like this is why I haven't been on any mainstream social media for 7+ years. And where do companies get off going over employees' personal crap anyway? For the record, I believe EVERYONE hates Mondays.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This is just a post about satisfaction. After years of using Linux exclusively, I was going over my Feeder just now, and just figured that I automatically dismiss anything containing the words "Microsoft" or "Windows" in it.

This made me realize how much better we Linux users actually have it.

Anyway, that's all this is about.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I want to use Radicale and do away with Joplin altogether. I finally understand JTX + Davx5 enough to be able to change my workflow to that. Now, I have around 400+ notes in Joplin. Is there any way to migrate from Markdown to ICS? So far I've only seen the option of an MD table to ICS, but I don't even know how to turn all those .md files into one markdown table.

Has any of you tried something similar before?

 

I didn't know where else to go, so if this is not the place, please let me know and I'll delete this.

I'm ready to port over to JMP.chat, and was wondering if anyone could share a referral link/code for me to avoid the 15 dollars activation of the number. I would really appreciate it.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm entertaining the idea of starting a digital privacy and security blog. As a matter of fact, I am self hosting it right now, but mainly for friends, family and acquaintances. It's super basic, more rants than articles honestly, 🤣

Since the only 2 social networks I have are Lemmy and Mastodon, I've been avoiding allowing sharing to Facebook, Twitter and other mainstream SNs.

My wife thinks I should just host it on a cloud and share it everywhere with the argument of, and I quote, "the platforms you use are already full of people as paranoid as you. If you really want to bring your knowledge and experience to others, you should allow us to share to the platforms full of people oblivious to the dangers you constantly slam us with" (which is absolutely true. I'm a thorn on their side, lol.

What do you guys think? Should I add features to share to those places? Would you if it was you? Under no circumstances will I post on any of them, and if I allow to share from my blog, my inner circle would be the one doing the sharing.

I do want to help spread our gospel, but I think that most people in those platforms are just to far gone to even care. I don't even know what to think anymore. I've only written 2 articles so far anyway, so it's not like I'd be the New York Times of privacy or anything.

 

This is absolutely ridiculous. Imagine some fuckers just coming into your room while you're with your SO making love or something.

 

If you are having issues with Mullvad in Linux (Flatpak) and getting a message along the lines of ""Your profile 'MullvadBrowser' could not be loaded"", it's a known bug and the only workaround right now is to use the test version:

flatpak install --user https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/112221/net.mullvad.MullvadBrowser.flatpakref

spoiler


 

I just got this email from Sony. My kids use their profiles offline (meaning they don't even have a playstation account) on their PS4, and use my games. And now they want to allow kids to link their other accounts (my kids only have a SimpleX user to chat with their family, LOL).

The sad thing is that a lot of parents will go: "Nice, they can now have it all in one place!"

Love how they say this at the end:

Stay tuned for more details. In the meantime, we recommend talking to your child about account linking so that they can safely enjoy these new features while playing on PlayStation.

They fucking call these FEATURES!

 

I just love this guy when he's riled up. Makes me feel all warm and cozy 🤣

 

This may end up being a bit convoluted, so I will do my best to keep it as short as possible and to the point.

I have a US number with Google Fi, have had it for about 8 years.

This is the only reason why I still maintain that one Google account. The benefit is that I only use it when I am in the United States, and when I'm not, I just pause the service and don't get charged.

However, I feel the string need to completely eliminate Google from my life permanently.

Does anyone know of a service similar to this one? It can be an MVNO or VOIP for my phone, and I would like to port my number as well. I found "phoner", but I can't pause the service, so I would be stuck paying a bill I don't use as much or loosing my number.

If the service is private (not to be confused with anonymous, of course) even better.

 

I have a trusty UnRaid server that has been running great for almost 3 years now, with some kinks and headaches here and there, but mostly very stable. Now I'm entertaining the idea of setting that box up with ProxMox, and running UnRaid virtualized. The reason being that I want to use UnRaid exclusively as a NAS and then run all dockers and VMs on ProxMox (at least that's how I'm picturing it). I would like to know your opinion on this idea. All I have is Nextcloud, Immich, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Calibre, Kavita and a Windows VM I use to update some hardware every now and then. I mainly want to do that for the backup capabilities in ProxMox for each instance. Storage is not a concern, and I have 64GB of ECC Ram running in that box. What are the Pros and Cons, or is it even worth it to move all this to ProxMox?

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