Use LibreWold and/or Mullvad. Done.
I use the whole 365 suite, including cloud pc, provided by my work, on Fedora. I block a whole lot of stuff, and everything works, minus the annoying ads and pushy up sales.
YMMV, but I strongly suggest you start blocking crap at the hosts level, if something breaks, start unblocking.
Absolutely critical feature. I'm spoiled and cannot live without haptics.
In that case, and please anyone correct me if you think I'm wrong, I would create a user just for that, entirely divorced from real life "me", including, but not limited to, different country, gender, age, all demographics, and use this persona exclusively for this purpose.
Know that if you are expecting to monetize directly from YouTube, this is most likely an exercise in futility, but if you you're not concerned with that, you're golden.
I would make sure to upload always over a VPN, just for good measure.
Here's the deal, YouTube belongs to Google, which makes the content inherently easy to find, unless YouTube doesn't want it to be. That removes any possibility of you controlling who can see and who can't.
Peertube is a completely different animal, you have much more control on who has access, in special if you self host.
My confusion with you post is that you say you want it to be hard to find, but at the same time you want it to be "successful", what do you mean by that? What would make it successful for you?
Use a DNS out of your jurisdiction, preferably a privacy focused one, that issue will go away.
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/a-dangerous-conflict-of-interest-between-firefox-and-google/
Look at the finances part: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
That's hooker behavior right there.
As far as I know, Samsung and LG both do that. But I'm guessing every manufacturer that adds wifi connectivity does the same.
Privacy invasive everything, forced arbitration, TOS bait and switch.,etc.
To the devil (Google).
No, I respect myself and you too much to say Brave. Mullvad and Libres Wolf. So, the fox while unfucked without a tail.
A VPN has it's advantages, mostly to avoid your ISP snooping on you (while having to trust another party not to snoop) and giving you access to stuff in the internet that may be geoblocked.
A solid DNS provider with Doh or DOT will encrypt your browsing, so I also believe it's better than a VPN, but I use both.
It's a matter of not overdoing it. Do it one step at a time. I feel you on the ADHD, I am also diagnosed, and now I inly check Lemmy and Mastodon every now and then. My mental health has improved dramatically since I dropped all the mainstream social networks.
I did the same on a PC I built like 10 years ago just because "why not?" 🤣
They sold their soul. I don't trust them farther than I can throw a fully loaded 787. On that same note, fuck Google, fuck Apple, fuck Adobe, fuck LG, I can go on forever.
Now keep down voting me, fuck those who do too. 🤣
I'll watch it right now and come back. BRB.
Edit: now I have to "arrr" that series and watch it. 🤣🤣
There are many reasons Microsoft software is only "good" (and I'm using that word loosely) in business and home settings. Can you imagine a rocket taking off and windows suddenly "rebooting to complete updates" (or whatever it is that it says along those lines)?
Suddenly today I cannot start the flatpak anymore. After start a popup appears with the text: "Profile not found" - "Your profile "MullvadBrowser" cannot be loaded. It may not exist or may not be a...
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
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Sony wants to get all of our kids' accounts, LOL
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!
Louis Rossmann ripped a new one on Adobe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxMCm941WA
I just love this guy when he's riled up. Makes me feel all warm and cozy 🤣
Looking for a VOIP service to replace Google Fi
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.
Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox
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?
System76 DKMS Drivers for Silverblue
I need some help figuring out how to install all the DKMS drivers, and firmware manager, firmware daemon, etc on Silverblue.
It's easy on Fedora but I haven't found a single instance explaining how to do it in a Fedora atomic distro.
These are the instructions for Fedora.
https://support.system76.com/articles/system76-driver/
Voyager constantly crashing
So, apparently for no reason, my Voyager app started crashing this morning whenever I touched any of the replies to my comments.
I tried with and without VPN, custom DNS, automatic DNS, Rethink enabled and disabled, and it just keeps crashing.
Yes, I cleared data, un-installed and reinstalled, and it is still happening.
Anyone else having this issue? I thought I'd ask here first before opening a bug report on Github.
Edit: Forgot to mention I'm on version 2.8.0 from Github.
Edit 2: Available version from F-Droid, 2.6.0, does not preset this issue.
Dual monitor suspend, one monitor does not turn on when waking up.
Finally got my wife away from Windows and on Fedora 40 (Gnome 46).
Now, when her PC goes to suspend and when she wakes it up, one of her 2 monitors doesn't wake up.
Both are connected to HDMI ports (no dedicated video card, just the integrated card in her Ryzen 9).
Any ideas on what could be happening? I wouldn't want her to go back to Winblows over something so insignificant, but she would.
Great FOSS Trailing service
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13523342
> I made wanderer - a self-hosted trail and GPS track database > > Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application. > > Core Features: > > - Manage your trails > - Extensive map integration and visualization > - Share trails with other people and explore theirs > - Advanced filter and search functionality > - Create custom lists to organize your trails further > - Chique design with a dark and light theme > - Fully mobile compatible > > wanderer is completely open-source. You can find the GitHub repo here: > https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer > > wanderer is still under active development so if you encounter any bugs/errors or have suggestions please let me know here or open an issue on GitHub.
In case you want something to send to your humans that say "I have nothing to hide" when you mention privacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7D6Fx0fTQ
Not 100% in agreement with some of her videos, but I believe this one is spot on, and probably easier to understand by regular folk.
Why you should #degoogle!
I set up a Raspberry Pi 3 with AdguardHome for a friend of mine, and told him to disconnect everything at home and try to watch anything on his phone, being the only device using his home's internet.
He just sent me this, and now he's ready to #degoogle 🤣🤣🤣
He says there were hundreds in less than 5 minutes.
Android Keyboard with keypad?
I've looked under my bed, in our pantry,and even went under the deck, nothing. Please help me find a FOSS android keyboard in which I can have the numbers to the right of the keyboard, like a computer keyboard keypad, even better if it has gifs.. The only android keyboard I know about that has that option is Swiftkey. Being a Microsoft app, you can understand why I'm not willing to use it anymore. AnySoftKeyboard and Florisboard don't have the option,at least I could not find it.