jjlinux

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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

You can minimize surveillance, but right now it's impossible to avoid it completely. The next best thing is is keeping whatever you can private, and what you can't, try to have it sent to someone irrelevant, like in my case are the Chinese.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wonder where you're getting this information. BYD alone is second worldwide if you account for the US market, and 1st if you don't.

59% of all EVs sold in January of this year were Chinese.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

China can have all the images they want from my car's. I don't live in China or anywhere near them. I'm more concerned about US made EVs and their surveillance because I travel there regularly, and they are digging hard on everything for people coming into the US.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

That's halfway true, depending on the part, and where you live. But the warranty they provide (at least in my country) covers everything that you don't damage yourself, and the warranty is transferable if you sell it still being under warranty.

The only expense I've had with mine are new tires and correcting some body scratches caused by other people (and public charging if on long road trips, because I charge at home with solar power).

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

We have 2 BYD plug-in EVs in our house, absolutely delighted with the brand. Before that I had a Model 3 Tesla, which I could not get rid of fast enough.

Honor where honor is due, Tesla did open the door for mainstreaming EVs, there's no doubt about it, but it was through marketing based on gimmicks, not through quality products. But the reality is that BYD, Xiaomi, Avatr and a few other Chinese manufacturing cars are way better value and even quality than their Occidental counterparts.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Next we'll see all US cops wearing masks in their regular day to day activities, like in the Watchmen series.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If you don't understand the concept of cancel culture, there's not much I can explain, sorry.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 week ago

Point in case. The moment I mentioned it, the down votes started pouring in.

Humanity has lost the capacity for critical thinking and civil communication.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It blows my mind how comments that don't fit the narrative of the liberals get down voted to doom and canceled, by the same groups that want "equality", but only if it's their definition of equality.

I'm all for equality, which is why I can't stand left-wingers or right-wingers. They're all full of shit.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Pepperidge farm remembers, and so do I. Lots of people I know use XMPP (Cheogram, Dino, etc).

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

These companies are really seeing how far they can get away with shit. It's mind blowing.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Wao, did you not read what I said? No app store is inherently safer or more dangerous than any other. They all require some level of trust, plus trust in the devs of the apps available on each store.

About freedom, nobody is taking anything away from you, other than Apple. Again, if you want to remain in their ecosystem exclusively, nobody is going to force you to use alternative app stores. However, your argument does go entirely against choice, the same choice you claim I am soiling with my comments.

We do agree on 1 thing, when someone buys an Apple product, there's a very good chance that they want that walled garden. Then there's those that did not buy from Apple, but had no option other than an iPhone, some of those I can guarantee that they hate being controlled by the company that manufactured what is supposed to be theirs.

If you can't do everything you want with what you bought and paid for, is it really yours?

I suggest that you look at the current status of technology in the world right now. You do not own your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Same with most Android devices and Windows computers. They force shit into the users, to the point that you will lose functionality if you were to disable most of what's in the devices.

Sure, Android is a bit more flexible, but other than GrapheneOS, CalyxOS or LineageOS, it's the same crap as iPhone, locking you to have apps forcibly, whether you like or use them or not. The only difference is that in Android you do have the ability to use other stores.

Enjoy your locked iPhone, and let those who want more choice just have the choice.

 

At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by jjlinux@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

Because of crap like this is why I haven't been on any mainstream social media for 7+ years. And where do companies get off going over employees' personal crap anyway? For the record, I believe EVERYONE hates Mondays.

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This is just a post about satisfaction. After years of using Linux exclusively, I was going over my Feeder just now, and just figured that I automatically dismiss anything containing the words "Microsoft" or "Windows" in it.

This made me realize how much better we Linux users actually have it.

Anyway, that's all this is about.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by jjlinux@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

I want to use Radicale and do away with Joplin altogether. I finally understand JTX + Davx5 enough to be able to change my workflow to that. Now, I have around 400+ notes in Joplin. Is there any way to migrate from Markdown to ICS? So far I've only seen the option of an MD table to ICS, but I don't even know how to turn all those .md files into one markdown table.

Has any of you tried something similar before?

 

I didn't know where else to go, so if this is not the place, please let me know and I'll delete this.

I'm ready to port over to JMP.chat, and was wondering if anyone could share a referral link/code for me to avoid the 15 dollars activation of the number. I would really appreciate it.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by jjlinux@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

I'm entertaining the idea of starting a digital privacy and security blog. As a matter of fact, I am self hosting it right now, but mainly for friends, family and acquaintances. It's super basic, more rants than articles honestly, 🤣

Since the only 2 social networks I have are Lemmy and Mastodon, I've been avoiding allowing sharing to Facebook, Twitter and other mainstream SNs.

My wife thinks I should just host it on a cloud and share it everywhere with the argument of, and I quote, "the platforms you use are already full of people as paranoid as you. If you really want to bring your knowledge and experience to others, you should allow us to share to the platforms full of people oblivious to the dangers you constantly slam us with" (which is absolutely true. I'm a thorn on their side, lol.

What do you guys think? Should I add features to share to those places? Would you if it was you? Under no circumstances will I post on any of them, and if I allow to share from my blog, my inner circle would be the one doing the sharing.

I do want to help spread our gospel, but I think that most people in those platforms are just to far gone to even care. I don't even know what to think anymore. I've only written 2 articles so far anyway, so it's not like I'd be the New York Times of privacy or anything.

 

This is absolutely ridiculous. Imagine some fuckers just coming into your room while you're with your SO making love or something.

 

If you are having issues with Mullvad in Linux (Flatpak) and getting a message along the lines of ""Your profile 'MullvadBrowser' could not be loaded"", it's a known bug and the only workaround right now is to use the test version:

flatpak install --user https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/112221/net.mullvad.MullvadBrowser.flatpakref

spoiler


 

I just got this email from Sony. My kids use their profiles offline (meaning they don't even have a playstation account) on their PS4, and use my games. And now they want to allow kids to link their other accounts (my kids only have a SimpleX user to chat with their family, LOL).

The sad thing is that a lot of parents will go: "Nice, they can now have it all in one place!"

Love how they say this at the end:

Stay tuned for more details. In the meantime, we recommend talking to your child about account linking so that they can safely enjoy these new features while playing on PlayStation.

They fucking call these FEATURES!

 

I just love this guy when he's riled up. Makes me feel all warm and cozy 🤣

 

This may end up being a bit convoluted, so I will do my best to keep it as short as possible and to the point.

I have a US number with Google Fi, have had it for about 8 years.

This is the only reason why I still maintain that one Google account. The benefit is that I only use it when I am in the United States, and when I'm not, I just pause the service and don't get charged.

However, I feel the string need to completely eliminate Google from my life permanently.

Does anyone know of a service similar to this one? It can be an MVNO or VOIP for my phone, and I would like to port my number as well. I found "phoner", but I can't pause the service, so I would be stuck paying a bill I don't use as much or loosing my number.

If the service is private (not to be confused with anonymous, of course) even better.

 

I have a trusty UnRaid server that has been running great for almost 3 years now, with some kinks and headaches here and there, but mostly very stable. Now I'm entertaining the idea of setting that box up with ProxMox, and running UnRaid virtualized. The reason being that I want to use UnRaid exclusively as a NAS and then run all dockers and VMs on ProxMox (at least that's how I'm picturing it). I would like to know your opinion on this idea. All I have is Nextcloud, Immich, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Calibre, Kavita and a Windows VM I use to update some hardware every now and then. I mainly want to do that for the backup capabilities in ProxMox for each instance. Storage is not a concern, and I have 64GB of ECC Ram running in that box. What are the Pros and Cons, or is it even worth it to move all this to ProxMox?

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