Without giving too much info, I had to use it as part of a legal process a while ago, it’s what the solicitors use to verify ID so I didn’t really have a choice but to use it. But my thinking about using things like GrapheneOS etc. isn’t necessarily to be 100% anonymous online, it’s more to just minimize the amount of info they can get out of me.
Yeah there is: https://lemmy.ml/c/unixporn
Bibata Modern Ice here!
Good. As a European person using Linux in Canada, I refuse to engage with any extra nonsense on my computer just because some American states are being idiotic. Even if it’s just one extra click, I’m not doing it just because California says I should. Get fucked
My ideal scenario:
Although what will probably happen is the companies will fuck each other over, prices will stay high forever and the data centers that go out of business will just burn all their hardware and all of this will have meant nothing.
I agree nobody is 100% trustworthy, but as a side note Mullvad’s no-log policy has been proven fairly recently after they were raided and the police found nothing at all.
I’ve been using Vim for 20 years.
I only opened it once and I haven’t been able to close it yet
Yeah we had a sweet deal before and we pissed it away. I don’t see why we should get the same terms if we rejoin. That’s just the cost of being stupid IMO
I suspect the ideal outcome would have been to have Leave almost win, like if it went 52-48 the other way. That way they could still keep saying it’s “what the people want” and keep using it as a wedge issue, but without having to actually do anything.
I also got mine refurbished, so that way Google presumably doesn’t get any money from me, at least not directly.
I have a pixel 8 pro currently, but I was running it on a 4a before that. It’s a bit of a trade-off, you get more privacy obviously and some more manual control over stuff, but also you lose some convenience. I’m kind of used to it now though.
It also depends on how deep you want to go with de-googling and stuff too. Currently I’m trying to avoid Google as much as possible (which sounds weird to say when using a Google Pixel lol) so I’m using things like Aurora Store and Obtainium as app stores.
I am in this rabbit hole too! I recently discovered that 3/5 of my external drives are still using inferior LUKS1 encryption instead of LUKS2 so I have to figure that out. Also I just got a yubikey and set it up with challenge-response so now my laptop needs the yubikey inserted, and a password and you have to press the button on the yubikey to unlock it.
All of this is very unnecessary because I have no data that is of any use to anyone else, it’s just become a fun project to see how locked-down I can make my laptop.
Edit: also posting this from my phone running GrapheneOS lol
If we’re just talking famous people and not family/people I knew, Douglas Adams. I don’t like living in a world where Douglas Adams dies at 49 and Henry Kissenger lives to be 100.
Bulgaria’s tourism minister must be shitting it right now though lol. “We have to host WHAT next year?”
Also if you saw all the Moroccanoil sponsorship all over Eurovision this year - let’s just say that company is not Moroccan
I started putting together a RAID, got the housing and the first drive, the plan was to buy a drive with each paycheck until I had the 4 drives I need. The first drive was like $250, arrived last week. Then I checked the price this week and the same drive is now $650.
I use a yubikey on my laptop, but I use it to make it even harder to log in. It’s set to challenge-response so you have to have the key in and enter a password to unlock LUKS. Bit overkill but it was more just to see if I could do it lol
The word ‘dog’ is interesting because it essentially has no etymology. It has no known cognates in English/Germanic/other Indo-European languages. It first showed up in Old English as dogca, referring to some sort of mastiff, but other than that nobody really has any idea at all where it came from.
It’s such a shame because I really like Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor, but yeah her whole era was so badly written. She’s doing Big Finish now though so hopefully she’ll get some good stuff to work with there.
The 15th Doctor era is… odd. No spoilers but RTD is back as lead writer but he makes some… decisions lol. Including putting one of the worst episodes the show has ever had right at the start of 15’s run. You’ll probably know it when it happens! But then inbetween the oddness there are some genuinely really good single episodes too IMO.
I think one of the main hurdles for Linux is having to break habits and do things differently, and occasionally just accepting that there are some things you can’t do (like playing games that have certain anti-cheat things enabled etc.) As well as the occasional “well I could probably make this work eventually, but is it worth the effort?” kind of situation.
There’s nothing especially I miss from Windows, although I’ve been mostly Linux for 15+ years now so Windows is the other, weird OS to me these days lol