Was wondering…

If I would invest $10 a month … How many computing power I could get … For an Adnauseam-As-A-Service server … And how many ad-budget that would vaporize?

Would it make $100, $1000 or more ad budget worthless?

Just curious what the numbers would be?

Agree, also I never encountered other software so flexible in user interface. Every feature can be placed with panels everywhere to your own liking. The whole app interface is like a canvas. Took me a while to get the hang of it but after that …

Wished other apps were this flexible.

For my family my setup slightly different for reasons in other comments:

• do change browsers away from Chrome or Edge
• do change search engines
• allow cookies
• drop tracking surveillance traffic at the network level with something like pihole or nextdns

To understand correctly: You have friends that care about moving files of their mobile by sync? Or is their only concern switching to Signal, but the lack of backup besides on the device?

Asking because:

• I have the same solution as you but the android folders - foldersync - Nextcloud variant.
• My motivation comes from privacy / sovereignty.
• My friends lack this motivation so they are happy using the cloud (iCloud or Googles) to “backup” everything.
• Any hassle by not using that needs strong motivation to endure and overcome.

So when their photos are in the cloud and their documents stay happy in mail attachments often there isn’t much more to backup besides configuration. Which all those bigphone (Samsung Lenovo Apple etc) suppliers provide.

For the chat backup:

• I got my whole family to switch to Signal (at least with me and for group chats, we have them for events and topics). The leverage I used was to only use Signal for baby photos of our newborn kids which my sisters and mom just couldn’t live without. 😎
• They complain about running out of local storage and not being able to bulk delete media in Signal.
• As a workaround they sort by filesize and delete a dozen big files (eg video).
• Or they leave a group, delete it along with media and join again.
• I was surprised they don’t care about the files after consuming it (foto video) and happy delete them.
• After that … the backup becomes small again.

Cwtch

https://cwtch.im/

Decentralized and Open

Participants in Cwtch can host their own safe spaces, or lend their infrastructure to others seeking a safe space. There is no “Cwtch service” or “Cwtch network”. The Cwtch protocol is open, and anyone is free to build bots, services and user interfaces and integrate and interact with Cwtch. Privacy Preserving

All communication in Cwtch is end-to-end encrypted and takes place over Tor v3 onion services. Metadata Resistant

Cwtch has been designed such that no information is exchanged or available to anyone without their explicit consent, including on-the-wire messages and protocol metadata.

Just a remark about “can donate profit anyway” which I understand for corporations doesnt apply to public and semi-public services (ofcourse).

Which often happens to be a target group that is well aware of public values etc and the notion of community-culture among each other. Often other libraries or other schools for example treat each other as collegues etc.

BUT those type of organisations arnt allowed to donate (Giving away taxmoney) AND often cant allocate developer time (because there arent any within those organizations).

Here (NL in EU) we depend on the same FOSS as everyone else, but cant donate. We do must look for other ways to contribute tho.

Also the reason I pay the €3 monthly fee covering 2 laptops, 3 tablets and 2 phones. Worth it imho.

It consistently drops 20 - 25% of DNS requests.

I had a security download (but not yet installed) ready yesterday. Logged off without installing. Turned on my device today and couldnt log in. Checked my pwd 3 times before seeing "authentication service not working " iirc.

After reboot it installed and logging in worked.

Is this related or not and is it expected? Not being able to log in without a mandatory patch first so to say?

Also just to add: Using an Oculus Quest (at least without the “for business” variant) for work related use cases within EU poses risc for:

• business continuity when used with fake Meta accounts to have a kiosk mode and rotate devices among personnel
• GDPR because Meta doesnt sign proper DPA’s

Material visualising or describing FHS can be credited seperatly.

More about this here: https://lemmy.ml/post/8550733

More about this here: https://lemmy.ml/post/8606459

For me on Gnome Files (Nautilus) its little things:

• List view of files which they had but REMOVED
• Using Alt up/down instead of backspace. Must admit unlearning this helped me use it on Win11 the same way
• Recent places (folders not files) which was removed also iirc

Maybe this thread is also interesting

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/4809117

I have sometimes the other way around: Grub keeps working fine but Win11 update reboots and looses the Bitlocker Key.

Have it on my phone just in case and needed it six times now. Quite tedious to put it in but doable

I believe Firefox had their fair share of problematic clones but they dont protect from that by licensing their code in a special way. They protect their brand and use of logo etc

So you can use the code and create something “new”, you just cant call it Firefox anymore.

There is a big difference between posting in public non confidential stuff and an app tracking all your clicks and likes and device contacts and telemetry

I supposed the topic starter meant the last one

if you want something niche instead of mainstream: Cwtch

p2p, chat-over-onion, meta data suveillance resistant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27643171

In any numeral system 😁😎

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