The best time to switch was 10 years ago. The second best time to switch is right now.
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Roopappy@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Proton is dead (for me). Let's collect and discuss alternatives! ✊🛡9·3 months agoI’ve been doing research into this because I want to degoogle. Looking for hosted and secure Mail, Calendar, Drive… maybe docs if possible. I don’t mind paying as long as I’m a customer and not a product to be sold.
My short list was: Mailbox.org, Zoho, and Notion.
Then there are the services I don’t understand as much because I don’t really want to self host or step into server maintenance… NextCloud, OwnCloud, LibreCloud, OnlyOffice. Maybe someone could straighten me out with those if I’m off base.
Roopappy@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Your tea bag is likely releasing billions of microplastic particles, according to a new studyEnglish1·4 months agoStroke rate increasing as well.
Roopappy@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Mecha Comet is a modular Linux handheld coming soon to Kickstarter for $159 - Liliputing4·4 months agoMy first thought: If this ever ships, I’ll eat an outboard motor.
Without wires you have no permanent power. Also, it sounds like you want it to be wireless transmission without a network. That’s a challenge.
Lets Ignore the “no cables” part then. If you want this to be cheap, highly reliable, and non-networked… use wires. You can’t go wrong.
You can get 4 camera systems with local storage from companies like Lorex for a reasonable price for good quality. I got mine at CostCo for $299. It might support cloud storage (maybe?) but I never enabled it. It just records locally. It’s been running for years with no downtime or issues and the cameras still look great.
Roopappy@lemmy.worldto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released!2·4 months agoSo… back when I used Pidgin, I aggregated AIM, YahooIM, GoogleTalk, and Pre-MS Skype. What is the use case today?
I do believe that everything old was better, everything new stinks, and my feet hurt all the time.
Roopappy@lemmy.worldto Privacy Guides@lemmy.one•VPN connections keep getting blockedEnglish1·4 months agoYeah, I try jumping around. Some are better than others, but none are great.
Roopappy@lemmy.worldto Privacy Guides@lemmy.one•VPN connections keep getting blockedEnglish3·4 months agoI probably need to switch VPNs. I currently use Surfshark and I experience 2 problems, and I want to see if it’s unique to that service.
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Lots of sites block my traffic because they detect i’m coming from a VPN. And just not like… banks or streaming services, but stupid things like Autotrader.com. It’s silly.
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The connection always seems to slow down over time, and I have to disconnect and reconnect to get it working at full speed again. I use it on Linux and on Android and the problem happens across devices.
Sounds like Mullvad has some good options.
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Roopappy@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Not enough people buying Premium, eh?English71·4 months agoIt’s a great product. It is thanklessly maintained by a single developer who is constantly fighting Youtube changes to break it. If you do use it and like it, and you can afford it, please consider a few bucks a month via patreon to keep it alive.
I’ve never noticed that a ferengi head kinda looks like he’s wearing a fedora already.
Oh, you shouldn’t do that.
Roopappy@lemmy.worldto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I'm pretty sure all of us have given up on any boomer giving us anything anywayEnglish65·4 months agoIn the same way that we should stop consuming media that blames everything on millennials, we should stop consuming media about how uniquely difficult it is for millennials.
Complaining about the younger generation, and the younger generation complaining that they have it uniquely difficult, has been the experience since the invention of teenagers. It was my experience, and it’ll be the same experience when millennials are my age.
Roopappy@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Organic Maps Turns 4 Years: The Privacy-Focused Alternative to Google Maps5·4 months agoI recently switched from Google Maps to Apple Maps in an effort to de-google, but this seems like an even better alternative.
Does it work with CarPlay?
EDIT: It looks like it does.
I got mad at my iPhone yesterday because I asked Siri to navigate home using Apple Maps, and it said that I hadn’t shared my location with Siri so that wasn’t possible. No… I shared my location with Apple Maps, open the app and have it navigate home. If you’re not going to allow me to use native iPhone features with Apple Maps, I’ll just use something else.
Roopappy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and TicketsEnglish14·4 months agoWhere I live, I see tons of cars every day with fake, missing, invalid, and foreign license plates every day. Enforcement would require cops to get out of their cars and expend effort over an administrative violation, so nothing happens.
These plates are “illegal”? Meh.
You are 100% correct.
Look at OPs meme and ask the obvious question: “Why is this moving to the right, and not to the left? Aren’t both options equally possible?”
The answer is that it moves to the side that wins elections.
“Why is the right winning elections” is the much much better question to ask. In the meantime, do everything you can to move the center in the other direction one step at a time, and that doesn’t come about by losing elections while standing on principle.
Roopappy@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so farEnglish10·4 months agoI experience this way too much. I have a nostaligia for when all of the problems I had with computers (broadly) were because I did something wrong… not because the computer is trying to fix something or guess something or anticipate something. Just let me type.
Yesterday, I typed out the letters of a word I wanted, and after typing a second word, I saw my iPhone “correct” the first word I typed to something else entirely. NO. Stop assuming I made a mistake. You cause more problems than you solve.
I often see a car in a crowded parking lot that is too wide or too long to fit in a parking spot, and I have to wonder if the person driving that vehicle is a complete idiot or a complete asshole.
How stupid are you that you chose a daily driver that doesn’t work? That you take up so much space that everyone else needs to actively avoid you and curse you because you are so bad at making choices?
Do you regret your choice? Do you constantly think “Fuck everyone else around me, I do what I want.”, or do you legitimately not notice how everyone else hates you?
Roopappy@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Revolut, McDonald's, and Authy have banned the use of GrapheneOS.29·5 months agoWhy would anyone load an app from McDonalds? You want to give them elevated access to your most personal data for a few dollars of coupons?
What are they taking from you that’s worth more than the discounts they are giving you? Because they are definitely making a profit, or they wouldn’t be doing it.
I know how she can test her theory.
Run a primary opponent against her who feels differently. Let the market decide.