Contacts has a Trash can. Deleted contacts are deleted after 30 days. You can empty the Trash yourself. Log into the web interface and find Trash on the left.
Thats just a user frontend showing your personal view of things . Nobody outside Google knows for sure if they really remove it from their end. All we know is they COULD keep a copy for themselves.
@lemann Thank you! Yea, many of my contact's emails are probably on Yahoo instead, so it's not that much of a biggie. I know nobody using Tuta or Proton or whatever. And probably they no longer care since most people use their emails only for logging in to websites that don't support SSO with social networks/Google and just outright create a new email if they forget their password to that. But hey, less data for Google is still less data for Google.
I don't have a complete solution, but I do have some ideas:
Have you tried hooking it up to an external monitor? Sometimes auto-config can help you recover from weird states if you plug in a different display.
On my Deck, I can reach a terminal by using CTRL-ALT-F4 that is separate from the main desktop mode (CTRL-ALT-F1 switches back). Default user seems to be called "deck". You may need to set a password to use sudo. I am not sure exactly how the desktop environment is set up on the Deck so I am not sure exactly what you need to change or where the files would be -- maybe check under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d to see if anything is set to an insane value there?
You might try sending Valve a support request
As a last resort, you could try a factory reset. You'll nuke everything else on it too though...
@SatyrSack@e0qdk Thanks. I, unfortunately, do not have a dock. I will go to a friend tomorrow who has and I will be connecting it to a monitor. Hopefully this will help.
Once in a terminal, this command should change the resolution
If you have the ability to connect to an external monitor, you can likely fix it by changing the resolution in the system settings instead, if a GUI is easier for you. But if you still end up using that command, “eDP” refers to the internal display specifically, so you don’t have to worry about that command messing up the external monitor’s resolution or anything. Good luck!
Edit: So I solved it simply by plugging in to an external monitor. I had the resolution set at something like 200x[something] (probably just a dot on the Deck's screen, lol).
So I connected it, went to the display settings and adjusted the resolution of the Deck's screen from there.
Gosh, having a dock and an external monitor is really useful tbh, I gotta spare some money for this
I recently moved all my personal accounts to a VPS instance. I decided on Mailu’s docker compose setup because of its ease of use and it has been working great so far.
I used Oracle’s free tier cloud (4 ARM vcpus and 24GB of memory) and email delivery instances so it’s worth a try, but any other cloud provider offer similar options.
I could have had an x86 server running with that much RAM
You only get that much memory with ARM. With x86 I think you only get 2 vcpus and 4GB of RAM. But for containers, if they run on ARM, it’s great. And Mailu has been running very smoothly so far.
As of downsides… well, it’s Oracle. But other than that, I actually find Oracle Cloud interface and offerings much more intuitive and straightforward than other big providers such as AWS or specially Azure, at least for non power users.
Email hosting is hard for two reasons. The first is that there are too many parts to configure - MTA, MDA, DKIM, RDNS, spam filter, webmail, etc. The viable solution is to use a turnkey solution like mailinabox, mailcow or mailu.
The second problem is deliverability. At the minimum, you will have to ‘warm up’ the server. You will have to send a few dozen mails to others and ask them to mark as not-spam. Even then, a lot of other factors come into play - like the IP address block (for example, mails from AWS always gets blocked), domain name and even the top-level domain - they all influence the spam filter score.
Meanwhile, deliverability with Google and Microsoft (incl google workspace and ms 365) are lost causes. Google sends your mail to the spam folder irrespective of your spamassasin score. They provide no viable solution to this. MS on the other hand just drops mail silently. This isn’t a bug. Both of them are trying to destroy the federated nature of email and consolidate all email business to themselves.
Meanwhile, the big players like fastmail and migadu get better treatment. Especially, migadu is a good choice if you want unlimited aliases.
Finally, talking about aliases. Most services (except migadu) offer only a few aliases. That limitation is not there for selfhosted email. An alternative to aliases is to use + addresses (eg: [email protected]). The advantage of this method is that you can make up multiple addresses on the fly (without registering) using a single alias/address. You can use this in combination with a filter like sieve (server-side) or notmuch (client-side) to sort and filter incoming mail.
@tesseract Yea, I was thinking about using aliases and alias providers as a middle-man to send&receive emails to&from providers that are known to be hard to tackle for people self-hosting their email. I understood from the article I linked that setting up an email server and maintaining it is a hassle itself, but I was wondering whether doing what I said above does make things easier for me or if it would be an extra burden.
Using a public service like proton or firefox for that has the advantage of you blending in with the crowd, i.e. the service doesn’t know who the account belongs to whereas the service knows exactly that it belongs to you because only you have the top level domain.
In theory … in the real world it doesn’t matter too much because noone will hunt you down.
I guess that it’s no more of a hassle than using one email with your own top level domain.
I’m not surprised. Propaganda as a systematic process of human psychological manipulation was essentially born in Russia, and they’ve been honing in and practicing those skills ever since.
also free speech and independent media civilizations tend to provide more attack surface. so countering it is inefficient and only resilience really helps.
luckily it’s not very subtle and rarely hard to spot.
Edit: after typing all of this, I re-read your comment and realized I simply argued your point for you further. Initially misread.
luckily it’s not very subtle and rarely hard to spot.
The abrasive propaganda that’s easy to spot, sure. But I’m positive that’s a minority of if unless you’re hyper vigilant in which case you’re also going to have a ton of false positives.
Now to preface this next bit. I don’t categorize myself politically. I’m very open to many different viewpoints but I saw Trump winning as a very dangerous thing, so some people would call me liberal, although plenty of liberals have called me a conservative in the past. I’m pro-choice, but I can understand that many really do see it as murder. I’ve had insults from all across the spectrum accusing me of fitting nicely into a box.
The first example of a western media type of propaganda that comes to mind in America-centric media is how the COVID lab leak theory was so heavily associated and linked with the far-right and discredited that even when the Department of Energy (they handle nuclear secrecy and many other things) and other official agencies released their assessments earlier this year that said the lab leak theory is the most likely by far, few seemed to believe it and not many news networks reported on it longer than a day, if that. And, since scientists work in provable facts and China hid the initial infections for over a month, even though they studied all the data and said it’s the most likely theory, they said they had “low confidence” in that assessment, because you can’t go back into the past and investigate things that are now covered up. Many if not most virologists who specialize in coronaviruses extensively now say that coronavirus jumping from an animal to a human with the highly-contagious specific modifications it had for binding to the specific receptor say it’s highly unlikely that it occured naturally in the wild. We (including American and other western scientists) went searching in caves and forests for many months for any mammals that had a previous version of the specific mutation that led to COVID-19 before it jumped to humans. No animal coronavirus with that precursor mutation has ever been found.
We now know that at least 3 people who were working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology where gain-of-function research was being done (in a level 2 lab – only medium security, if I recall correctly - think gloves, masks, change of outfit… no serious sanitization) were hospitalized for COVID symptoms a month before the first infected masses started showing up to hospitals with covid symptoms. The 3 scientists tested negative for everything they tested them for.
But the majority of people will still tell you it was caused by a wet market infected animal, and if you bring up the evidence and official opinion that it was a lab leak they will fight you on it and make up excuses.
Whether it’s a case of political bias, or self-censorship for fear of repercussions of subscriber numbers, or a message came from the top of the networks, it was a very effective campaign of propaganda. Even though it would be beneficial for the “China is incompetent, and dangerous, and we need to spend as much as we can to protect ourselves from them” narrative the DoD has been pushing (true as it may (or may not, I’m not an expert in geopolitics) - the majority of major news networks decided to brush it under the rug.
Also consider that you’re arguing from high grounds.
While we will read/hear/agree majorly about the true origin of COVID eventually, in places like Russia there’s no open discourse ever or discussing sensitive topics is dangerous and almost only happens between closely related people behind closed doors. There is almost no development of public opinion beyond closed online discussions outside of echo chambers.
If the USSR would still exist, russians & east germans would still believe that AIDS/HIV was manufactured by the USA although even the worst critcis of the US have agreed on proof, that it must have developed outside of labs.
Links out of order but are the sources. I’m short on time right now. You’ll notice the US IC still thinks it was not a lab leak, while the FBI and DoE think it is from their research, but China won’t cooperate in the investigation of the source of COVID-19 so that makes things hard… Biden is attempting to get the IC to declassify and release their info about the origins. Right after the reports from DoE and FBI, China released data showing it appeared to come from wet markets again. I’m happy to be proven wrong but my understanding from people discussing the experts is that the lab leak theory is most likely. The article about the toxic debate is full of info and I believe newest iirc.
Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here
In your linked WHO report:
Assessment of likelihood In view of the above, a laboratory origin of the pandemic was considered to be extremely unlikely.
In your FBI article which blames China lab with no evidence:
Many scientists point out there is no evidence that it leaked from a lab. And other US government agencies have drawn differing conclusions to the FBI’s.
Why did you even link a news article citing Energy Dept. making the accusation with, by their own words, “low confidence”?
I’m happy to be proven wrong but my understanding from people discussing the experts is that the lab leak theory is most likely
Your own evidence argues against your point. Your understanding is wrong. Scientists will ofc hedge and say the probability it was an accidental release from the Wuhan lab is ‘not zero’, but this is what being precise with language and honest looks like. It does not mean they believe it is actually what happened or that it is even likely. There is no actual evidence to suggest it was an accidental release, and even less that it was engineered.
Biologists know that as the population of the planet increases so too will the occurrence of pandemics. Just look at the last century or so: Spanish flu, Hong Kong Flu, Bird Flu, Aids, Bubonic Plague. Look earlier than the 1700s and you get 1 pandemic a century at most.
;tldr get used to it and stop believing conspiracy theories on something that is going to be a regular occurrence.
That's the epitome of peaceful operations right there... Take over people's land, make fake elections to say that the people want you there, then force them to renounce their citizenship to you in order to get healthcare.
Hey Putin, you know if those people wanted to Russian, you wouldn't have to force them to be!
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