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netchami,

TL;DR: Yes it is, it’s terrible. What would you expect from a Facebook product? Use Signal instead.

netchami,

Get a Pixel, install GrapheneOS and something like this will never happen to you. And you will also be much more private and secure.

netchami,

I hope the availability will be better than with the Pi 4.

netchami,

And LibreWolf is better. It’s Firefox with all of the privacy settings preconfigured and uBlock Origin preinstalled. Also, crap like Sponsored sites and Pocket are removed.

netchami, (edited )

Check out this custom YouTube Music desktop client: github.com/th-ch/youtube-music. It has neat features like an adblocker and a download feature and many more things built-in and it’s open source. It’s available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

netchami,

Waterfox is more for look and feel, whereas LibreWolf makes significant privacy improvements. You can choose for yourself. Btw: You can also customize the UI on LibreWolf, just enable userChrome.css customization under Settings -> LibreWolf -> ‘Allow userChrome.css customization’. Now, you can customize everything you want.

netchami,

The Mullvad Browser is based on the Tor browser, but it doesn’t use the Tor network, whereas LibreWolf is based on Firefox + arkenfox user.js. LibreWolf is better for normal day-to-day browsing, where as Mullvad is meant to be used for high privacy/security tasks. Mullvad is kinda hard to daily drive, because it can’t be configured to save cookies, you can’t really use extensions and it lacks some other things. These features were removed in the Tor browser, because as I said, it’s meant for high thread model usage. Edit: I like the Mullvad browser and I use it myself, but not as my daily driver.

netchami,

The Tor browser is a modified version of Firefox, but you are not meant to modify the Tor Browser, in order for everyone using the Tor Browser to look the same and blend in. This is done for maximum privacy and anonymity.

netchami,

Explore. tor.taxi might be a good starting point.

How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') (www.zdnet.com)

Today, the Dell XPS-13 with Ubuntu Linux is easily the most well-known Linux laptop. Many users, especially developers – including Linus Torvalds – love it. As Torvalds recently said, “Normally, I wouldn’t name names, but I’m making an exception for the XPS 13 just because I liked it so much that I also ended up buying...

netchami,

For 1400 bucks you can get a really nice Framework Laptop. And when it breaks, you don’t have to spend 1400 on a new one or 2000 on a overpriced repair that can only be performed by the manufacturer, you can actually repair everything yourself!

netchami,

Modern ThinkPads are hard to repair and can’t really be upgraded and older ones don’t have good performance or battery life.

netchami,

Sure, but the performance and battery life will be terrible. I don’t think that buying old laptops solves the problems we have with most new ones. Buying something like a Framework Laptop instead of some Dell or Apple garbage actively supports a pro-right-to-repair company and you also get a really nice laptop with good performance, battery life, upgradability, reparability and customizability.

netchami,

What modern laptops does the P50 outperform? It has a 6th Generation Intel CPU…

netchami,

The Lenovo Yoga line is essentially the PC version of 2017-2020 MacBooks, thin, light, loud and hot with terrible performance. Even my toaster would outperform one of those. These are “Ultrabooks”, not real laptops. It’s a shame that they are calling some of these pieces of shit ThinkPads, but most other modern ThinkPads also suck. Quite sad how the ThinkPad brand has been ruined by Lenovo. Nowadays, I’d even take an ARM MacBook over a ThinkPad. The P50 was probably one of the last good ones, but it’s kinda outdated now. I’ve been really happy with my 13" Framework with the Ryzen 7 7840U, 32GB of RAM and a nice NVMe SSD running Gentoo. And I know that I can repair or upgrade almost everything on this laptop.

netchami,

I have a tip for you: Put GrapheneOS on it

netchami,

Then do that. There are many Linux communities on Lemmy, participate in them and try to make them a better place by contributing useful comments and posts.

netchami,

Any reason why you recommended Win 8.1 in particular?

netchami,

Ok that makes sense

netchami,

You don’t need to immediately delete your Windows installation, you can just dual boot and keep your Windows install around. Then, you can just start using Linux, and see over time if you missed anything. If you notice that you haven’t needed to boot into the Windows partition for some time, and you feel comfortable with getting rid of it, you can just delete it afterwards.

netchami,

Fellow ADHD guy here, back when I switched to Linux from macOS I encountered the same issue, maybe you can try to move all of the important stuff to Linux first, so when you use Windows for the things that you haven’t moved over yet you are forced to reboot into Linux to do other stuff

netchami,

Hope that works for you. If you have any further questions, don’t hesitate to DM me, I’d be happy to help you out!

netchami,

Enable ‘Block connections without VPN’ in the Android VPN settings.

netchami,

Plausible

netchami,

Shizuku uses adb to grant apps elevated privileges, which unnecessarily increases attack surface. For security reasons, I would not use it.

[Question] Which shell prompt do you use and why?

Hi. I’ve been using powerlevel10k for a long time, but a few days ago, I decided I wanted to customize it a bit. I opened the .p10k.zsh file, and I was shocked. It’s really massive, with TONS of options. I’ve been digging through for a few hours already, and it’s absolutely amazing how much you can customize it without...

netchami,

I’ve been using zsh for some time, but I finally switched to fish. I also checked out Nushell, it lacks some features, but it’s really interesting. On zsh I was using Powerlevel10k, on Fish I used oh-my-fish with the shellder theme before I switched to Starship. I’m very happy with this setup. My prompt looks like this: https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/9e0ef0c1-d121-44c1-be99-4d03b19af6bb.webp

My Terminal Emulator of choice is kitty, the font is Monocraft.

netchami,

I’ve been using this one pretty often lately

netchami,

Yes, but make sure to use a VPN or a Seedbox for the actual torrenting

netchami, (edited )

A few of those are not shown on the picture, but this is my personal list of favorites:

  • GrapheneOS

It’s just the best, most private and secure mobile OS.

  • Signal

End-to-end encrypted messenger with great history and track record

  • LibreWolf

A Firefox-based browser with out-of-the-box privacy improvements and pre-installed ad-blocker

  • Mull

Firefox for Android with privacy improvements

  • SearXNG

Self-hostable meta-search engine

  • Whoogle

Proxy for Google search

  • Piped

Private YouTube frontend

  • LibreTube

Piped client for Android

  • Notesnook

End-to-end encrypted notes app

  • Aegis

Good 2FA app for Android

  • Bitwarden

Secure, FOSS password manager

Edit:

  • NextDNS

Private DNS service with customizable filters

  • SimpleLogin

Email aliasing service allowing you to create a new email address for every service you want to sign up for

netchami,

Have fun! Don’t hesitate to ask me via DM if you have a question or encounter any problems as I’d say I’m quite experienced with all the tools I listed.

netchami,

I use Vanadium for high-security tasks, but Mull is my default browser for standard browsing. It has better privacy, because it has built-in anti-fingerprinting mechanisms and you can actually install proper adblockers like uBlock Origin. Also, I don’t want to support Google’s monopoly on browser rendering engines by using a Chromium-based browser, so I prefer Mull which is based on Gecko.

netchami,

In terms of security, Vanadium is better than Mulch. Mulch uses some of the patches of Vanadium, but it lacks many security improvements that are present in Vanadium. My current setup is Vanadium for tasks where high security is very important, and Mull for just standard browsing.

netchami, (edited )

Get the fuck out with this proprietary cancer. All of the software listed in the blog post is spyware. Google can go fuck themselves, no one on this planet should be giving up their privacy and freedom to such a garbage company, no one should be using their shitty software.

If you read this blog post and honestly thought about using any of this, I have some better advice for you.

  1. Don’t buy a foldable phone, it’s unnecessary as fuck and will break very quickly
  2. If you actually have a Pixel Fold or any Google Pixel Phone, you’re kinda lucky, you can remove the proprietary spyware OS and replace it with GrapheneOS, the most private and secure mobile operating system which is free and open source
  3. Don’t use Gmail, use ProtonMail or Tutanota instead
  4. Don’t use Google Docs, use something like Collabora Office instead
  5. Use Jitsi (preferabely on an instance that allows anonymous meetings) instead of Zoom
  6. Use the GrapheneOS Secure PDF Viewer instead of proprietary Adobe cancer (you definitely don’t need that garbage on your phone to read a PDF)
  7. Check out the Privacy Guides page on Cloud storage services, but definitely don’t use Dropbox as they participate in the NSA PRISM program, just like most of the other services mentioned in the Google article
  8. Fuck Evernote, use Notesnook instead
  9. Stay away from Todoist, use the FOSS Tasks.org app from F-Droid instead

Bonus tips: Read some more articles on Privacy Guides, set NextDNS as your private DNS service, use an Email aliasing service like SimpleLogin, try to use VOIP phone numbers and virtual credit cards from Privacy.com if you are from the US.

netchami,

Notesnook is cool, I used Standard Notes before but the Notesnook UI is much better, especially on the mobile apps. I don’t know if they are profitable right now, but their business model is just their premium plan for 5 bucks/month. They might have lower expenses for staff though because IIRC they’re a small team from Pakistan, where wages are obviously lower than in Western countries. Everything is end-to-end encrypted and their apps as well as their backend infrastructure are open source.

netchami,

Android supports DoT, and it can be easily configured by the user. They call it ‘Private DNS’ though, in order to not confuse users with terminology like ‘DNS-over-TLS’. Also most browsers support DoH, Chromium just calls it ‘Secure DNS’, again, in order not to confuse users. NetworkManager could definitely implement DNSCrypt, DoT and DoH, maybe even DoQ and just call it ‘Encrypted DNS’ and add a toggle to choose the protocol.

netchami,

Emacs because it lets you configure everything exactly the way you want it. You can also go with Neovim, but it only runs in the terminal.

netchami,

A Flatpak of Doom Emacs? No. But you can just install the normal Emacs flatpak and then install Doom Emacs with 2 simple commands:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs ~/.config/emacs

~/.config/emacs/bin/doom install

Emacs will read these config files from the .config/emacs directory. Doom Emacs is not a different version of the program, it’s essentially just a set of configuration files.

netchami,

I don’t have a Linux Mint installation right now, but when I used Mint a few months ago this worked for me. The two commands are from the official Doom Emacs install guide. Could you tell me exactly what doesn’t work?

netchami,

Try PATH=“/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/:$PATH” ~/.config/emacs/bin/doom install

netchami,

Yes, it’s one single command. No, I haven’t noticed any major downsides of Emacs as a Flatpak.

netchami,

I sent you my Matrix name via Lemmy DM

netchami,

Check out the Privacy Guides page on Email Aliasing Services

netchami,

I always use a VPN, no matter what network I’m on. I don’t need or want to trust my ISP, I just need to trust my VPN company. And when I don’t trust my VPN anymore, I can easily switch to another one, while I can’t switch ISPs that easily, because they actually own the fiber-optic cable that runs to my house. Censorship is not the only issue with ISPs, privacy is another reason why a trustworthy VPN is mandatory for me. You can’t fix ISPs, they are garbage, and they will always be. But you can use a VPN, so you don’t have to care about your ISP.

netchami,

For iOS, you can check out Privacy Redirect

netchami,

Piped is better for privacy because it proxies everything through the Piped server, with Invidious you still leak your IP to Google. I also prefer the UI of the Piped web client.

netchami,

Just installed Aliucord, I’m pretty happy with it so far

(Please see comments)Alternatives to Signal if they exit EU due to ending E2EE

Like the title states looking for E2EE apps (Android and iOS) without going into much details or needs to be robust enough and easy to use for anyone and stable for operations that are susceptible to constant electronic warfare. I did some research and thought about replacing Signal with Molly and wondering if it will still work...

netchami,

They’re not from the EU

Signal isn’t from the EU either, so why would different rules apply to it than to Threema

netchami,

Have you tried all of GrapheneOS’s first steps for maximizing app compatiblity?

netchami,

Glad you found a good solution

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