CrypticCoffee

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[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have same issue on my lemmy.ml acount. It returns a 400 bad request on firefox.

Edit: resolved as of 26/07/23. Can now login.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"Still doing correctly"? They are very generous with their space allowance and you gotta wonder why. I haven't read the privacy policy, but I wouldn't be surprised if every email you receive, everything you buy, every account you own is feeding into advertising profiles about you as a user.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I also know that they had some shady decisions in the past." I am assuming this is a reference to responding to a legal order to hand over details for a user. Any company would have to do the same. The problem is with the law, not the company.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Have you considered Proton Mail? It's by folk from CERN in Switzerland. So non-5 eyes. It's a very solid and reliable email service.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I appreciate some of this could be controversial or opinionated so I will try and keep that to a minimum. I will link to discussion threads for each topic so people can dig into the are a bit more and why different things are recommended. This list will be regularly updated.

I want to keep this thread clean, so I’m wondering if it would be better to discuss this in a separate thread.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

A delayed response, but thanks for the recommendation. Looks pretty good so far :).

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

This is probably the best answer I will get. Thanks for that :)

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A fully working Linux Phone with good battery life that supports a good matrix client with e2 encryption. GrapheneOS is good, but we need initiatives independent from Google.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I was on windows 10 without an SSD. There is only so much dog slow you can handle before you want to change it. I was amazed by how much faster linux was. Windows 10 was the first windows I noticed that struggled this much. It's like they gave up on performance and just relied on the hardware. I dual booted from there with linux mint and over time, I started windows less. I haven't used it in months.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I would suggest Linux Mint Cinnamon. It's very Windows like, and just works. It's a great distro to get started. I started on it, and many others have. Non-techy relatives really took to it also.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

If they can turn it over, then it isn't exactly end to end encrypted... You don't own the keys.

I'll just avoid the cloud... the cloud... is just someone else's computer....

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For myself no. I did find it with PinePhone. It just wasn't there yet and the pain to convenience factor was too great.

GrapheneOS was a real game changer. I had a lot of stress and anxiety knowing how much my privacy was being infringed and every day I felt that tension. When I got a phone with GrapheneOS, and got the few needed Android apps I used, I felt nothing but liberated. Yes, there are inconveniences, but that pure feeling of it being my hardware (rather than Google's), and that feeling of control over it is exhilarating to me. I feel free, and I cannot put a price on that.

This is a process though, and it takes months, or years to get to where you want to be. I knew what exposures I had, and I had to find a solution to each one.

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