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.
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About a year ago I had a bunch of different accounts hacked so I got hardcore about privacy. I started using 1password and went through and deleted 300+ different passwords from Google and started using 2fa everywhere. I’ve used windscribe vpn for years because of the mobile as blocking filters but I just recently saw that mullvad does the same thing now too so I spent some xmr on a mullvad subscription and dropped windscribe
EDIT: Also forgot to mention, I switched almost everything from Gmail/Drive over to Skiff mail/drive
Use Open Assistant where possible instead of ChatGPT or Bing Chat or the likes.
Also, the Open Assistant project needs practical support to train its model.
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You don’t need a Google account for open assistant.
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It’s a great project but literally worse the ChatGPT and Bard for privacy significantly right now. You can rate conversations to help the AI get better, but that also means your conversations will be made public so someone can rate the AI responses to what you said.
True.
On the upside, when a conversation is deleted, it’s actually gone.
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
Trying to get people to use signal is like pulling teeth
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.
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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
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 😒
Lmao I think you might be needing new friends.
Update: it worked
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@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.”
It was a successful attempt I got them to switch
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 😎.
I need this made for iOS 💀
I bought an anonaddy subscription. I am finally also able to use my domain.
I switched to Ubuntu-Touch, hated it, switched back to Lineage OS.
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I have a phone that I am not using tn, capable to run ubuntu touch. I constantly need to remind me why I switched back to lineage os, when I get the idea that I should try it again. The most annoying is the short battery life, which hasn’t been fixed for about 5 years.
For me, it really annoyed me, that it had some very frequent performance issues. Sometime’s it ran very smooth and other times it just was rocky.
If I could successfully sandbox just a few android apps, I would love UT.
Why not grapheneOS?
Finally switched from from Windows to Linux (specifically EndeavourOS, an Arch-based distro with a GUI installer).
I also bought a new phone, on which I intend to install GrapheneOS and distance myself from Google’s ecosystem.
I signed up for Proton Mail.
LibRedirect browser addon to switch to privacy-respecting frontends for popular websites.
I just did too but I went with manjaro. After getting it all set up I’m thinking of jumping to endeavor but I’m not sure I want to go through the entire setup again.
Manjaro will break on you a lot more often than EndeavorOS will because of their release schedule. Should be ok if you stay away from the AUR but that kinda defeats the biggest selling point of using an Arch-based distro in the first place. Manjaro is the one and only distro that I actively ward people away from.
Thanks for the sync thing recommendation, looks amazing!
It can be pretty annoying to set up with the quirks and problems you can come across, but if you stick with it it’s totally worth it
Tended to my garden. Hard to get info if you don’t post info.
Jokes on you. Now I know you have a garden.
Stopped using google search. Started using duckduckgo, brave, startpage, or SearXNG instead. Been using SearXNG the most.
Avoided using threads, worked on my custom blocklist on NextDNS, tinkered around with my uBlock origin settings in Brave
I apologise for my ignorance, but what’s the concern with Surfshark?
Would be great if some kind person could enlighten me on this, thanks!
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Replaced a lot of apps on my phone with FOSS alternatives.
Can you list a few examples?
I’ll do you a few better. Others have done it before. Here are some examples of excellent posts on the subject. Search Lemmy a bit and you’ll find many more.
A website that lists quite a number of Android FOSS apps:
And here is an entire community dedicated to that topic:
Started self hosting invidious and libreddit alongside the libredirect extension.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !selfhosted@lemmy.world
I already use Trisquel; libre kernel; Abrowser; DivestOS; SearXNG; Nextcloud; Matrix; XMPP; Session; Odysee and Peertube; KeePassXC; Tutanota and Protonmail; ProtonVPN. Not sure How much further I can go without going with a Talos II.
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