jjlinux

joined 2 years ago
[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

What distro are you using? And what is the problem(s) you're having?

I ask because there's a bunch of really smart I dividuals with extensive experience in Linux (not me, sorry) and from my experience, most people here love to help others troubleshoot Linux (along other OSs).

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Took the words right out of my mouth.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I just told my wife she's going to have to share now🤣

You give the info, and then a link to the source? There's still hope for humanity 😉

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

I love how this went from ".deb" to "Mullvad VPN repo configuration" 🤣

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm already married, but, would you marry me? I'm guessing you're probably very useful to have around.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Oh, absolutely, but it's still an exercise in futility if the goal is to have any impact on the offending company's demeanor and course of action.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What do you use for things like: 1.Email: Protonmail

2.Cloud storage / file sync: Nextcloud/Syncthing

3.Maps & navigation: OSMAnd + Syncthing

4.Search engine: SearX (self-hosted) and Brave

5.Web browser: Brave, Libre wolf on Linux, Vanadium and Fennec on Mobile

6.Calendar: Etar (with Davx5 from Nextcloud)

7.Contacts management: Contacts in Linux and GrapheneOS (with Davx5 from Nextcloud)

8.Notes / to-do lists: Obsidian over Syncthing with a crapload of plug-ins.

9.Office suite (docs, spreadsheets, etc.): Libreoffice and Onlyoffice

10.Messaging / chat: Signal and some XMPP client (Cheogram on mobile and Dino on Linux)

11.Video calling: Signal for personal, nothing for business (or whatever was used by the person inviting, in an incognito browser tab)

12.Social media / microblogging RSS reader / news: Mastodon and Lemmy / nothing / FreshRSS (self-hosted) / FreshRSS (self-hosted)

13.Music streaming / podcast app: Don't stream music / AntennaPod

14.Video streaming / YouTube alternative: NewPipe, Smarttube (on TV) and Grayjay

15.Password manager: ProronPass, KeepassXC for secrets

16.VPN / DNS / Firewall: Nord VPN, Tailscale and Teleport (Unifi) / AdguardHome / Unifi UCG-Ultra

17.Launcher / Android OS (if you use custom ROMs): GrapheneOS stock launcher

18.App store / APKs: Neo Store and Obtainium (for everything I can get from git instead of f-droid and similar. Sometimes Aurora if I want to try something commonplace

19.Photo backup / gallery: Nextcloud

20.Weather: Breeze weather on mobile, Gnome weather on Linux

21.Smart assistant (if any): None (yet, still researching options on Home Assistant)

22.Anything else you’ve replaced?: I've been able to replace everything that matters to me, but that's a wiki-like long list.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Funny how that's the case for most people 🤣

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I would say that I RTFM about 75% of the times (give or take). Though I only do it to see if I can find something other than what I intended to use the software or hardware for.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 days ago (7 children)

For that to have any impact, the abusing company leadership would need to have the ability to feel some level of shame. I honestly believe that most don't have any ability for that.

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

Yeah, it was a statement, not a question. But it's partly my fault for not using the comma appropriately. Fixed.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

That's what I think too. And then I see "Their systems are built into everything around us", which basically only applies to PCs and laptops. What is built into pretty much everything around us, is GnuLinux.

 

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

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by jjlinux@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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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