In the last week:

I started using Syncthing. I was using cloud storage as a way of copying files from one device to another. Syncthing is so much better.

I signed up with Mullvad VPN yesterday.

Deleted my Surfshark account today which I signed up with over two years ago when I didn’t care about privacy.

Finally convinced my sister to start using Signal.

  • @PrivateOnions@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26•2 years ago

    I deleted Whatsapp but created a photoshopped screenshot of Whatsapp banning my account so that everybody around me thinks it is involuntary, going to try to get them to switch to Signal soon. Wish me luck

      • ChickenButt English
        1•2 years ago

        I’m always surprised when I get a notification that someone from my contacts is using signal when I never expected them to even know what it is.

      • @PrivateOnions@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        I will find out in a few days if it will work. I am unfortunately in the US so most people just use SMS/iMessage but within my social circle most used Whatsapp. Hopefully they install Signal instead of just texting via SMS

        • BagginsEnglish
          3•2 years ago

          Hopefully they install Signal instead of just texting via SMS

          Good luck with that. I got one person to move to Signal.

          My work team uses WhatsApp for group messages re shifts etc. SMS just doesn’t cut it for that, so I have to use WA.

          Also, we have a family group on there.

          Could be worse, the part time job I did recently used Teams 😒

    • Jackie
      2•2 years ago

      @PrivateOnions @BigTechBlows Holy fuck, this is the most funny and genius tactic i’ve seen. questionable? sure, but hey, still funny. I’d probably do the same, just to bypass “the persuasion phase”.

      has the same ingenuity as “have a screenshot of messages as your lockscreen wallpaper, that way you can sneak out of any social situation imaginable.”

      • @PrivateOnions@lemmy.ml
        7•2 years ago

        Nobody has questioned it yet. Here is the screenshot if you were curious:

        I photoshopped the top menu and the bottom and also made the picture the same as my phones resolution so there is no room for doubt 😎.