CrypticCoffee

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

Because it's the pro-business wing of the party. They did a hostile takeover from the left, shunned unions and funded by wealthy folk. It's corruption of the party. Hence why they ditched Green New Deal and pushed back net zero targets. Return on investment.

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

A friend of mine has hundreds of hours on House Flipper. Definitely got their money's worth.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A wee bit crispy. Worth covering with foil at first and regularly basting as Turkey can get a bit dry.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

I'm quite impressed you've been running Windows 10 on a HDD. It was dog slow for me, especially starting up and how I started using Linux.

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

Who cares about toxic LTT?

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have bought both Lenovo and Asus multiple times. I always felt I got more for my money with ASUS. Never used customer support though. In UK, we have a 1 year electronics warranty with retailer so can take straight back if any problems.

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

You're welcome. Good luck :)

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You shouldn't need to constantly defend yourself. The most important persons opinion on you, is you. Who do you want to be, how do you want to act? If x decision happens, was it the best decision you could make at the time with the information you have? If so, good call. Even if in hindsight it was wrong, no one can see the future.

If you constantly have to defend yourself, do you have toxic people in your life? Is the criticism aimed at you for your benefit or theirs? If theirs, learn to take a step back.

Rather than defending yourself which drags you into the mud with them, deflect it away. "If you say so." "I'm sorry you feel that way". There is a book called When I Say No, I feel Guilty, and it's great at teaching you practical ways to resist other manipulation etc.

Most importantly, if you wouldn't change your decisions, take comfort and pride in them. If you make a mistake, don't feel guilty, think how you'd do things differently next time. How you can learn from it. Guilt is wasted energy, redemption is much more positive way to channel things. "Well, I did this and maybe I wronged x, one thing I could do to improve things for person is this".

I wish you luck on building yourself up, one step at a time. At your own time. Bad days happen and it's OK, tomorrow is a new day. A new opportunity to change and improve things for your self.

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

How about family support and running on Linux. There is a reason steam is ahead, and it's not first mover advantage. It's superior features. The first isn't even a complicated feature but is important.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is why you have requirements which are agreed upon and affect payment if not upheld. If you start being firmer, they might move quicker. 24 month lead team is bullshit.

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

Do they do testing? Is there no SLA on bug fixes and availability? That should be essential come renewal time.

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

I was glad when crypto hype died down and folk could buy graphics cards again.

Now this. They can fuck off.

Everyone turn your AI off in your search engine. Avoid AI, don't encourage this shit. Bubble will pop quicker.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11253421

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11253225

Fossify Contacts (fork of Simple Contacts) and Fossify SMS Messenger (fork of Simple SMS Messenger) have been released on F-Droid.

Other Fossify apps available for download on F-Droid:

(ICYMI, Simple Mobile Tools suite was acquired by an adware company and their apps on the Google Play Store now contain trackers and unnecessary permissions. This report from Exodus shows that the old version of Simple Gallery had 0 trackers and 10 permissions, whereas the app, after sale, contains 9 trackers and 21 permissions!)

About Fossify: Fossify is all about community-backed, open-source, and ad-free mobile apps. A fork of the SimpleMobileTools, which is no longer maintained, and we’re here to continue the legacy, bringing simple and private tech to everyone.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10796117

Fossify Gallery (fork of Simple Gallery), Fossify File Manager (fork of Simple File Manager) and Fossify Calendar (fork of Simple Calendar) are now available for download on F-Droid.

(Simple Mobile Tools suite was acquired by an Israeli adware company)

About Fossify: Fossify is all about community-backed, open-source, and ad-free mobile apps. A fork of the SimpleMobileTools, which is no longer maintained, and we're here to continue the legacy, bringing simple and private tech to everyone.

Some folks recommended SimpleMobileTools such as calendar. After it was sold off, a fork was created by one of their contributors, and it's released on F-droid now.

Wanted to give this update in case folk were curious.

 

Looks like UK is going the same way as a few states. Spare a thought for us. So messed up this increasing surveillance state.

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/5707453

The Chrome team says they're not going to pursue Web Integrity but...

it is piloting a new Android WebView Media Integrity API that’s “narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps.”

They say its because the team "heard your feedback." I'm sure that's true, and I can wildly speculate that all the current anti-trust attention was a factor too.

Many said we couldn't stop it. We, like many, applied pressure, and they backed the fuck off.

We have no room for complacency now though. Google cannot be allowed to dictate web standards. Firefox needs to eat into that Chromium market share. Never forgive. Never forget.

 

Hi, all.

We've grown considerably since rebuilding the sub (see https://lemmy.ml/post/2262830). Active monthly users 150 -> 380. 3.5k -> 5.42k subs. It seems to be growing organically now, and the higher we go, the more people will stumble across it. There is always a need to get away from Google, and hopefully our community can help people with this.

If you'd like to join us to help moderate so we have folk in place as we need them, that would be awesome.

If you are interested. Please send a message about why you think you'd be good for the role, and also an example post/comment in this community previously.

Thanks,

CrypticCoffee

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2437896

also on r/privacy

Apologies for multiple posts today. I hadn't planned on doing so. I stumbled across this and it communicates effectively what this is. As many are confused by this, it could be a reasonable bit of information.

 

Mozilla's position on WEI is pretty solid.

 

Oh boy, it's happening. Google is flexing it's muscles and abusing it's market position. It has never been a better way to convince and support family and friends in moving across to Firefox, a fast and privacy supporting browser.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blackeco.com/post/25574

And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is... interesting to say the least.

It does seem that using Chrome (or Chrome based browsers) is just going to going to perpetuate this. Firefox has never been more important IMHO.

 

Discuss software recommendations. I locked it as I don't want it to be messy and hard to consume. Feel free to say anything here regarding that thread.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
 

Here I will pin a list of recommendations for software. Getting started can be daunting, and it'd be great to pull that information together here for newcomers so they can take practical steps to degoogle their lives.

Disclaimer: These are recommendations by regulars here and on privacy forums. Use at own risk. We cannot due diligence on these, so if people do have issue with items in the list, please create a post and raise your concerns.

Recommendations

Browser -

  • Firefox (Strongly recommend in light of WEI and Google's plan that could potentially restrict access to websites)
  • Librewolf
  • Brave (Not recommended, due to Google's WEI changes. Using chromium is a bad idea. I left this in case you really must)

Search

  • Duck Duck Go
  • Brave

Email

  • Proton mail
  • Tutanota

Cloud storage

  • Proton mail

Productivity Suite (Alternative to google docs)

  • Libre office (Maybe not cloud based)
  • Only office (for MS doc compatibility)

Degoogled Android phones

Phone OS - https://lemm.ee/post/663113

  • GrapheneOS

  • LineageOS (wihh or without MicroG)

  • /e/OS

Android app store -

  • F-droid

Messaging

  • Signal

  • Element (Matrix)

Maps - https://lemmy.ml/post/2211048

  • Organic Maps

  • OsmAnd+

SMS - https://lemmy.ml/post/2256135

Organisation

Task lists - https://lemmy.ml/post/2249613

Calendar - https://lemm.ee/post/704703

Discussion

These items are ones either recommended multiple times or seem to have some form of consensus on them being good and privacy focussed. I will link discussion topics so people can see the logic and reasoning behind recommendation. If you are not happy with anything here, please discuss here: https://lemmy.ml/post/2262409

If you would like another item in this, please create a post discussion and we can pull it in and link to it.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
 

Does anyone know a good FOSS app for managing task lists or notes where you can use checkboxes to mark off what is completed and what isn't?

Thanks.

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