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In Firefox its just a flip of a button. Private DNS.

I think it uses Cloudflare by default when activated, but there are also others like quad9 9.9.9.9

Works for me on my desktop. Latest kernel. USB Bluetooth stick.

Might depend on the hardware.

Bluetooth seems to be some kind of black magic. Difficult to get right.

LMS is an awesome app. It’s a shame things like Navidrome gets all the attention when LMS is so much better.

Haha

I wouldn’t be so sure this time around.

The world is a big uncertainly and the force in Europe for digital sovereignty is something I never seen before.

The initiative to protect Europes boarders and data information is justified.

Is it still braking changes when upgrading to a newer version?

In the past it felt like I was running an alpha version, which I spend more time fixing, than enjoying its features.

Heard of dual boot?

I have been doing that for around 10 years already, when I bought my first NAS with Docker capability.

I keep all my music locally. Ultrasonic app on the go.

Well who knows?

I have no problem switching to an alternative is Cromite bellies-up tomorrow.

For now though I’ll stick with it.

The biggest problem is the scarce availability outside the US.

Or should I say, that the biggest problem is software (OS) compatibility with other devices than the Pixel?

My money is on the latter.

Why?

Cromite is excellent.

Too bad it’s chromium based, but works a whole lot smoother and snappier than Firefox based browsers, oh and safer as well… So for the time being, Cromite it is.

Librewolf on desktop Linux is my weapon of choise.

Ouch!

Pierced my heart, that one.

Yeah, Tumbleweed has a good track record with NVIDIA drivers in my experience. As with updates in general.

Although I still use X11 as Wayland still has graphical issues in some apps for me. Usually Flatpaks. That makes it unusable for me for the time being.

Edit: I have an older card (1050ti), so maybe I don’t get the latests drivers anymore?? On version 550.

Yes, Docker apps are more appropriate for servers and most apps are “made” to run 24/7 to serv the home or workplace.

They are very much worth the “work to setup” as they can be transfered/replicated to any system.

Flatpak and the alike are for running apps on a desktop/laptop.

That’s funny since Nextcloud is a bloated mess.

“Unreliable Backup” is probably the worse.

Wait, I have a better name. Duplicati!

Criminals according to what standard ? In some countries, activism or sympathy with a cause is considered criminal behavior.

Exactly!

It is a slippery slope.

Even with services like Proton (big company in the privacy realm) etc, you can only fully trust yourself.

That’s why documents are always client side encrypted before I send my data, to any cloud platform.

And thanks to their Signal connection graph, the government can easily tell what other people they communicate privately with.

So what? I’m sure your neighbor couple talk privately to each other most of the time and you know that happens. The important part is that the conversation is private.

Signal is not an anonymous messenger app. It never claimed to be. It’s for you to have a private conversation where your device holds the encryption keys.

Not like WhatsApp, where Meta has access to the keys of all conversations. Also 95 % of the worlds population is on WhatsApp, so why don’t you go and complain to them for lack of privacy and security?

If you want an “anonymous” chat client they are out there to use. Good luck getting more people onboard other than your savy friend.

Well, they partly took that “feature” away because people thought they were sending encrypted SMS messages which is not true. False sense of security.

They just took the secure high road and ditched SMS. It also made the app leaner with a smaller attack surface.

I think they did the right decision. Signal is the secure choice for the masses.

Having said that, I’m using Molly-Foss as it has less footprints, no Google messaging framework, leaner than Signal, with no crypto payment, and an encrypted database at rest.