With KDE any telemetry is opt in only, so by default there’s zero telemetry

Fedora or Nobara are worth checking out too!

KDE or bust in my book, zero telemetry by default is how all software should be setup!

That’s it

Thanks for the breakdown, I’ll be sure to stay away from Converso! You should 100% check out DataBag. It’s my current favorite as its pretty much selfhosted signal. Except without the need for phone numbers and while decentralized, it can be federated too. Definitely my current favorite up and comer in the messaging world

https://searx.thegpm.org is working on my end. So at least this instance is working. I’d assume it’s those instances or possibly a browser issue

Is this going to mess with invidious?!?

Is it eeally that much safer vs running Graphene? I’m sincerely curious as I don’t know the specific benefits of a landline vs a secure ROM.

I recently heard about Data Bag. It’s a decentralized and federated end to end encrypted messaging service. It could help with the issue. As long as you have or know someone who could run a node on some server spsce or even a rasberry pi

Probably plays into their purchase of SimpleLogin, seems to never be an issue if you setup your own domain name with them.

SMS & email are antiquated services, this is why Protonmail is rad as they’re making a program which was never designed for encryption, encrypted. But the thing is even encrypted data is being stored in hopes of being decrypted by quantum computers in the near future…

You can download MpDiag here: https://www.winpcware.com/extension/bin/mpdiag-bin

But FYI, it looks like its a Disk Image and Microsoft strongly recommends against downloading and/or copying MpDiag.bin. So tread lightly, is not even offered my Microsoft directly as it’s embedded into their software installer.

If it’s still occuring after a restart I’d assume there’s something up with the file. Maybe open it and screen shot the material. Or redownload it and save it on a USB. Those would be my moves

Seems like Microsoft/Windows Defender is scanning the files. You should be able to copy them afterwards. Easiest way to fix it (I believe) is to wait. The table flip option + my recommendation is to load Linux as it wipes windows in seconds!

I have yet to give it a go, but I’m excited to run through the service here in the near future

To take things beyond face value, isn’t reading outlooks from those who’ve spenta lot of time in digital rights a good next step?

If you’re looking for an open sourced Picasa option, digiKam is great. Faststone Image Viewer is supposed to be fantastic as well but its proprietary, still free though

According to F-Droid, Drip was updated 7 months ago and before that it was updated two years prior. Maybe it doesn’t need much updating 🤷‍♂️

F-Droid has Periodical too and it was updated 9 days back

That’s Big K, your plug’s plug

Makes sense, as a Fedora fan due to it’s security, privacy & functionality, maybe try it out for a bit in a VM before locking in with Debian. Debian using proprietary firmware makes me unsure about their overall direction. But different strokes for different folks 100%, especially with linux based OS’s

Interesting, I had no idea. I played around with Whonix in a VM then plunged into Fedora, so I’m not all that familiar outside Red Hat/KDE based OS’s

Just curious, what made you choose Debian over say Fedora or Arch option?

Not exactly, real climate change info is rarely covered as it is, but the Trump “News” made this nearly impossible to hear about indirectly.

Exactly, I was referencing the VanillaOS install. I’m setting up a VM soon to test the waters 100%

Thats rad, but I’m not trying to be a dick at all. I’m quite active as I want to see Lemmy do well and the fact everytime someone says something about a lack of threads their account is also a lurker. Regardless, glad you’re here and getting down with comments for sure!

I mostly agree but with your account only adding two post to lemmy, increasing the post on your end would be a great first step to fix the issue.

I did a good while back, fuck allowing Reddit to build a profile about me without breaking down what I’m cool with them collecting. Libreddit all damn day if get an itch to peep the front page

AppImageLauncher is the move if you use any app images for sure! Super sweet it’s ready to rock on install with VanillaOS

There’s a bit of a learning curve to dial in all the stuff you regularly do with windows on a linux based OS. But by making your daily driver a linux based machine you’ll be kind of forced to figure it out. Took me maybe a month to fully get each little thing setup but now I have more versatile resources to handle the same tasks. Worth it alone to stop the invasive tracking by Microsoft to me. Plus with all the easily accessible open sourced software available in linux, I now often wonder what took me soo long to drive in

Hows VanillaOS compare to Fedora/Nobara for school? I work + take courses at the college and 99% of the time Fedora works wonderfully. The only issue I’ve ran into is using Respondous Lockdown Browser as it has to be done with a VM and they don’t like VMs whatsoever

Wasn’t working yesterday for me either, https://libreddit.domain.glass is working at least 🤷‍♂️