Not too many unfortunately. I trust Proton bc I am not breaking any Swiss laws, and I know they leak recovery emails so I don’t have one listed, but that’s about it.

To be honest I’m not an expert in this, definitely haven’t achieved de-googled life yet, but someday I dream I will. Even if they are not collecting usage data they’re surely getting metadata

I noticed a big jump from pixel 6 to 7 in cost, so the 6 is what I meant. Still very usable in 2024. I don’t need all the newest features, just security upgrades. The battery is fine - I use a chargie to keep it between 35 and 85% to prolong the life.

You can pay more for a more modern phone, but if your only criterion is a usable pixel you don’t have to spend more than about 200 if that.

Edit: I really appreciate your recommendations though – I may try one of those out when I need to upgrade.

For me it is a matter of trust. What does it matter if you’re getting security updates faster than everyone else if you’re getting them Solar Winds? In other words, if you don’t need security against nation-state actors, the highest threat is Google / Apple themselves.

I usually buy pixels used for $200, where are you getting 6/7 phones for that price?

Matrix continues to be awful and weird. Discord is basically easy to use IRC – too bad no one else has figured out an easy irc

Not really true imo. A lot of stuff is automatic. In kubuntu now, most of my apps from last session starts back up when I turn the computer on. Steam, rhythmbox, nextcloud client like I was saying, and all kinds of stuff start automatically as desktop apps. Panel applets are basically auto start apps.

One thing Linux doesn’t really do though is autostart stuff you don’t want.

Oh dude great idea! Also if you did it with hair ties you could keep extra hair ties that way! (Albeit stretched out)

In Lubuntu there’s an autostart section of the session settings, and I had to put Nextcloud client AppImage in there because it wasn’t starting automatically. But maybe LXQt is unusual? IDK.

Anyway, it wasn’t that hard. I didn’t even have to do a Web search or use the terminal, just opened the system settings and looked around for something that looked like autostart.

Thanks for dropping that knowledge… Perhaps in years and years hence I’ll search “Windows add app to startup lemmy” to remember how to do this… I’m much more used to using msconfig to tell Windows apps NOT to start up automatically…

Instead of “Windows add app to startup” I would search “Ubuntu add app to startup” and limit it to articles posted in the past year. Maybe not obvious but not that different honestly.

On the other hand, no amount of searching got my laptop’s volume up and down keys to work in Ubuntu :(

I hope this is not fallout from the 404 Media article

Oh, I get it

What open source stuff? Asking for a friend

To be fair IDK how to tell a Windows program how to start up automatically if it didn’t have an option for that in it’s own settings… I’d have to search for a Windows guide

Firefox has this feature too, just saying

Same. Hexchat + znc = peak of software development