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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

And that's fine. I agree. Becoming consumist hoarders is what got us to where we're at. Or rather, what allowed companies and institutions to take us here.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Lol, I was thinking the same thing. "plug it in, OK, done". No drivers and none of that shit.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Agreed. However, more users (personal, institutional or business) equals more devs focused on the OS.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

All I need is a sudden jolt of "I need to test other distros", distro hop for a day or 2,and then end up back in my distro of choice. This happens every couple of months give or take.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

Where are you? From your comment, I'm sure you live in my house 🤣

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

Totally doable, but also risky and convoluted as hell.

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

This is the route I took, and at 10 dollars per year or so to maintain a domain, this is a very cheap way to remove some of the hold big tech has over our lives.

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

Show us the evidence of this claim about "Proton owner". And yes, Tuta is great, I agree on that.

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

Hey, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I'm sick of one clueless idiot posting something and then a whole crowd of brainless followers jumping on the bandwagon just to smear someone's name (like what's happening with Proton and Andy Chen, for example).

Honestly, I couldn't care less if Andy was Trump’s biggest fan. Proton's track record on privacy is rock solid. I spent two years digging into Tuta, Proton, disroot, and a bunch of others until I finally settled on Proton for my family—and I've never looked back. My wife, who used to throw money at Google like it was cash to burn, finally got an email service she could actually trust. That's what matters here.

Now, I get it—Proton’s not perfect, and yeah, they're a business with their own quirks and maybe some shady stuff waiting to surface. But we need to stop blindly following one crappy post without doing our own homework.

And sure, I hate a lot about Trump (not to mention Musk, who I honestly think is even worse), but let's be real: the alternative of having Kamala Harris at the helm could’ve been a total nightmare. When I imagine her running the world's most powerful economy and military, I'm picturing a hot mess that would plunge everyone into chaos. You think you’re safe from one disastrous trainwreck, only to replace it with an even bigger one!

Trump is pure asshole material, and you could probably say that about 90% of his cabinet and most Republicans too. So yeah, if you just skim the last bit, you might think I'm a Trump supporter. But if you read the whole thing, you’ll see I'm simply saying that, given the choices, staying on this crazy rollercoaster was the lesser of two evils. We need to weigh the bigger picture rather than jump on every outrage train without doing any actual research.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

Ex-Google fan boy here. Been riding the fuck Google wagon for about 7 years now, no regrets, and certain I'm missing out on absolutely nothing. Moving away from all these self-serving BS "tech giants" is the smartest and healthiest move anyone can do.

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

Alright, let's tear this idea apart in plain, no-BS language. The whole "we gotta invest in AI to keep up with other nations" argument is like saying you need the flashiest new phone just because your neighbor got one—even if your old phone still works perfectly fine. Sure, some countries are all-in on AI like it's the latest craze, but that doesn't mean we have to jump on the bandwagon and mess up our lives.

The whole "end of skilled labor" hype is really just a cover-up. People have been doing amazing work with their hands and brains for ages—long before AI even existed. And let’s talk downsides: more people losing jobs, a privacy mess, and decisions being made by glitchy algorithms that might not give a damn about real-life problems. We didn't need AI to build everything we have today. We've been doing just fine without handing over our lives to a bunch of computer code.

So, if you're buying into the "we need AI to keep up with the cool kids on the global stage" nonsense, you're ignoring the fact that the smart move might just be hanging on to good old human skill. Instead of racing into an AI-fueled chaos, maybe we should just keep doing what we do best—using our brains and common sense.

 

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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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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