starlord

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starlord,

I haven’t been able to find this setting. I’ve heard about it on other devices but mine doesn’t seem to have it.

starlord,

I’ve been suspecting I’d need GrapheneOS for a while now. Might finally be time to jump.

starlord,

Yeah, I’ve seen this before but I just apparently don’t have that option. All I have is “Mobile Data” which appears to leak a little despite being turned off…

starlord,

What is your name?

What is your quest?

What is your favorite color?

starlord,

Eye of the Tiger

starlord,

I’ve gone tons of places that say use Google Authenticator (only) and I just summon the QR code and scan with Aegis anyway and it always works fine. I’ve never seen a place that required a certain one.

starlord,

Tried Aves at this suggestion. Really neat!

Alternative to Azure DevOps Boards

Hi All! I’m looking for an alternative to Azure DevOps boards for my project management. I particularly interested in the ability to create relationships between tasks (parent/child and predecessor/successor especially) and to organize cards/stories into parent features or epics or however (I don’t care what they’re...

starlord,

SSH or RustDesk

starlord,

Interesting. I found RustDesk recommended as an alternative to AnyDesk. Do you have alternate suggestions?

starlord,

Well…

starlord,

Couldn’t you just pay them enough so that they don’t need a second job?

starlord,

A little too the left

starlord,

I don’t really blame them for not making a switch; I understand their stance/reasoning. It’s just depressing to be the one guy left out, like I don’t get to dance with anyone at the party because I don’t like the music.

starlord,

A variety of answers, including but not limited to:

  • I don’t want to learn another new thing.
  • There aren’t enough other people I regularly contact using it.
  • I already have this thing, why add another?
  • I don’t care about the benefits of switching so why would I?
  • I like what I have.

Again, I can understand these reasons. (Especially universal adoption; it’s hard to get someone to switch to a messenger that almost nobody they talk to is using, just so they can talk to you.) But I’ve made my choice for a variety of reasons to which I wholeheartedly subscribe and don’t want to go back, but it’s had the effect of isolating me.–

starlord,

This is the argument I typically get from others (though, not as aggressive). I don’t blame this stance at all; it makes sense and is reasonable. I try to extol the benefits of the alternatives I propose but there’s simply no getting past “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” attitudes.

starlord,

That’s easy to say, but it feels to me as if I have to make a choice between engaging and interacting with the people I love or adhering to my beliefs about how I should manage/protect my information. It’s a difficult spot to be in and it’s neither fair that I should have to make that choice nor fair that I should have to force it on others. That’s what’s bothering me.

starlord,

This is really great advice, I guess the middle ground has always been a bit of a struggle for me.

This echoed for me, I’ll remember it:

Privacy maximalism and/or FOSS maximalism etc is natural impulse when you first begin to grasp just how quietly exploitive, invasive, and commoditized the modern internet is. But it also leads to burnout and can be isolating if you are too rigid about it.

starlord,

Jhereg series by Steven Brust

starlord,

Compassion

starlord,

Do you have comments as to how Feedly ranks from a privacy standpoint, ownership, data sharing, etc?

starlord,

This

starlord,

Obsidian is really great but I can’t recommend Standard Notes enough; it is my Google Keep replacement and has served me well.

starlord,

Going in-patient saved my life, but it did not cure it. It armed me for the war I would fight with myself on the path to healing, but did little to support it long-term. It is an effective stop-gap, but should be considered only the beginning of the journey, as continued work and treatment (for potentially very long after) may be on the menu.

starlord,

Freddy Mercury

starlord,

Let’s not forget that these directives originate from vastly different points in “our” moral evolutionary “history,” not to mention technological capability (especially versus the rest of the galaxy) and sense of safety/security. If the SGC were founded in the same century as The Federation, would they have a similar stance?

starlord,

When a single person is fighting multiple assailants but they still only attack one at a time while the others just stand there trying not to look odd while waiting for their turn.

starlord,

You killed my father. Prepare to die.

starlord,

Disclaimer: Joke!

To help native speakers identify foreigners.

starlord,

I, too, find striking the balance between staying informed and protecting myself from negativity to be daunting, disheartening, and frequently unrealistic.

What helped me was my coincidental transition to services that have little or no “algorithmic” influence, such as switching to Lemmy/Mastodon. It requires me to be more intentional with my willing exposure to content, at the cost of being less convenient to find new content.

Like, I don’t get as many new songs in my playlists since I jumped out of Spotify. It means I need to get creative in order to try new artists, but I’m not hitting the skip button as much, either.

starlord,

Drop the bass

starlord,

Disclaimer: I don’t have a suggestion for you. Just a thought experiment.

I rate a product/service against a bunch of things, like privacy, ease of use, utility, necessity, etc., and come to an important radio.

I have a similar scenario (very young spectrum child), so I tried this.

It’s gonna be hard to geo track anything without sharing the data unless you can launch your own satellites.

The trigger scenarios (natural disasters, kidnappers, or just general/accidental negligence/happenstance) really feel like fringe cases. While the utility of the tracking in these scenarios would be extremely high, the likelihood of their necessity is incredibly low. Especially given that the caretakers have already been extended enough trust to leave such a precious asset in their unmonitored care, so it may stand to reason that they can be entrusted to react and take care correctly in these cases.

I think the cost to benefit radio is a little off. I totally see the value, I just wonder if it isn’t too much effort/expense.

Those of you who are married, how do you go about privacy if your wife or husband does not care?

I have always been curious about this. Did you get them to use other services or did they stubbornly refuse and you just accepted it? I am talking using Chrome, using Windows, using social media like Tiktok or Facebook or Instagram, etc. Bonus points if you have kids because that is even more work in the privacy realm

starlord,

Please detail the arcane wizardry which allowed you to achieve the respectful of your choices part you described, because it is the only way your story differs from my own situation.

starlord,

Yes, I think that’s fairly accurate.

It’s really that, while I’ve respected her choice to not participate in any of the practices/protocols I’ve recommended, she doesn’t see my own involvement in them as anything more than a waste of time. Even more so, she’s said she worries about the way it might change me into a paranoid person (conspiracy theorist).

Which feels a little disrespectful of the beliefs I’ve chosen. Like being told you’re worshipping the wrong god, by your partner.

starlord,

I really can’t say, we simply don’t agree. I say “I’d just rather my data belongs to me and curate who I share it with” and she hears “GIANT SPACE LIZARDS ARE TRYING TO MELT THE AMAZON” and just pictures me wearing a tin-foil hat.

I once asked her “If someone was standing outside our window, watching and taking notes, would you draw the curtains?” and she spent more time arguing that the metaphor was ridiculous and irrelevant than actually rationalizing the point I was trying to make. Literally no argument I’ve seen works on her. She just doesn’t agree.

starlord,

I suppose we’ve reached a “agree to disagree and don’t talk about it as a result” status, which I’m willing to accept, sorta choosing which hill I wanna die on, ya know?

It’s just that I wish there was more support, whereas I feel instead that there’s ridicule or disrespect because her standpoint comes across more as “I’m right and you are wrong so I think less of you for it.”

But, focusing on the privacy topic rather than relationship advice, I really just wish there were a way for me to present her with a case that allowed her to validate my arguments and respect them, even if she doesn’t agree. I think that’s just asking too much because there isn’t a single justification I’ve ever put forth with which she could understand my opinion.

No privacy supporting suggestion works with her because she simply doesn’t value it. I guess I could be projecting expectations, but I think I’m valid in wanting my views respected, even if they aren’t conceded.

starlord,

Any chance you have a loanable copy?

starlord,

Awesome, thanks!

starlord,

I usually say “I’ve kept my work relationships exclusively professional and communication with references stayed within the scope of the project.”

starlord,

While there is some utility aded by this for some of the recipients, can you seriously tell me that a positive impact would be ubiquitous?

The data often suggests that gun related incidents increase and are correlated to density of guns. By adding more, you’re kindling the fire.

Bigger cloud, more rain.

starlord,

I would appreciate posts of various resources, especially (support) groups and reading material for those who communicate primarily through their keyboards and screens.

Privacy with Google's Gboard (lemm.ee)

The only app I can’t live without. Except for gboard, all of my applications are Foss. There is no competition for gboard’s swipe typing, not to mention its many capabilities like as searching for gifs, stickers, being able to paste copied images, translating, and so on. I’d like to know how I can use gboard while...

starlord,

I have my VPN block it from accessing the Internet so no data gets transmitted. You’d lose some features, but it works.

starlord,

Can you justify this suggestion?

starlord,

This

starlord,

Now show me how to get them off standard SMS…

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