I am not sure if advertising is a necessary evil. I guess I do not like being sold something constantly, and when I am in the market for anything, I will expose myself to advertising willingly, but it is, in way, a matter of consent. I can imagine that there is also people who like being sold things unsolicited, you know, they might say that they like discovering new products through advertisements.
Uhm, xdg-desktop-portal? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal
Workrave. Does not work at all on Wayland. But I have been using Wayland the last two years and I am glad that I made the switch. The beginning was a bit rough, but I am glad that I never have to deal with screen tearing ever again on Linux.
Excuse me if this is an obnoxious question: But why not just Firefox with the DDG extension (if you really need it)? Search engine-specific browsers tend to be… bad in general. It’s going to be a wrapper around some other browser anyway.
The RPi was always very overpriced. I think they knew they were selling a lifestyle product from day 1, you know, “here’s the new toy for the tech crowd that has too much money anyway”. Sometimes I cannot believe what ridiculous sums of cash people give out for SoCs with custom cases that are definitely not worth the pay-up, ex. the whole clockworkOS computers which got abandoned by the manufacturer few months going forward, and the massive financial hurdle to become a part of the user community means the community/fan crowd just implodes as soon as the tech bros find a more shiny device to waste money on. Then all you got is abandoned hardware with no community support.
Remote? Do you connect yourself over telnet or what?
I had Opera on my Nokia 2600. I think it was called a WAP browser back then. Tiny mouse cursor on a 150x170px screen, good times.
If only it wouldn’t cost… 200€. I could buy 6 Ergo MXs for that same price. Of course, you avoid e-waste and all, but come on now, that’s a lifestyle product if I have ever seen one.
“Keys can be stolen or hacked”. Assuming that an adversary gains access to your user account on your local computer? Well, there is no messaging protocol that will “protect” you and your data when an adversary has unrestricted access to your user account.
I am not sure for whom this article was written. “It’s hard to exchange keys” is Computer Security 101. That’s how public-key cryptography without a centeralized PKI works. The only valid argument against PGP I could recognize here is the fact that PGP provides no forward secrecy.
GNUbuntu was an Ubuntu derivative that delivered only free software in the default install. It was abandoned for gNewSense and ultimately, Trisquel.
Uhm, no? I can still start calls on meet.jit.si without logging in.
No, do that. Fully legitimate to choose friends with similar values. If privacy awareness is a big thing for you, do that, really. I survived college without installing Discord. It did bar me out of many groups, but I still had a fairly large circle of friends. I guess Germany is a bit different regarding privacy awareness among younger people, though.
If you are not in the mood for doing much tinkering, there is a German electronics manufacturer called TechniSat and they sell a multi-function radio called DIGITRADIO 3 VOICE. It has an offline voice assistant. The voice commands can be used to pause, change audio source, increase volume, etc. The radio deck has okay-ish sound, I wouldn’t call it hi-fi but it doesn’t sound like two tin cans. The function is actually for blind people (I bought one for my grandma who is legally blind), but I guess privacy enthusiasts would find it adequate, too.
The PineTime has a great feature set, but the build quality is terrible. I guess it’s perfectly justified for the price, but I don’t know; I don’t feel good having to order a new PineTime every six months once the last one I bought dies.
I am planning to buy a Casio B5600. There is a FLOS companion app for it, and it has a G-Shock frame; that thing ought to endure a bit before giving up :P
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=_IZw2CoYztk
I didn’t know the “Machines should work. People should think.” slogan had a name. I thought it was something they came up for the Paperwork Explosion ad campaign.
Exactly. At times, Debian offers more package granularity than Arch, which is really the key to minimize bloat. imo one should use Arch for the bleeding-edge packages it provides, not for the rather exaggerated minimalism argument. Almost every distro can be reduced and micro-optimized to be as minimal as possible.
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I’d buy a Nokia flip phone immediately if HMD would stop locking the bootloaders of their KaiOS devices. Great little gadget, very little customizability.