

for me the other useful thing would be mobile apps. I use jerboa
https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa
it’s also available on the play store
for me the other useful thing would be mobile apps. I use jerboa
https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa
it’s also available on the play store
it also means don’t risk everything you have for a somewhat opaque promise of something better
honestly the distro doesn’t matter so much as long as the hardware i supported. run a minimal desktop, disable CPU hogs and file indexing etc.
I used fvwm on Debian for many years on old computers. worked great. now I have kde/plasma on arch. my 10 year old laptop handles it fine…
hilarious. tx for sharing. updating to include the latest OS airlines tht constantly push ads or ai would be nice
so I found it interesting and checked it out. the protocol is all well and good but the problem is social. I’m simply not going to send people my delta chat Id and ask them to message me there instead if they have delta chat installed. I had the same problem with session messenger.
when I meet someone irl I’m trading phone numbers. not asking if they have app X installed.
this might be useful for open source projects where you can use ur delta chat id instead of ur email. but it’s not something I would use unless it’s a requirement to join some community I wanted to.
the problem signal solves by tieing accounts to your phone number is contact discovery. thanks to user IDs you no longer have to share your phone number with people u want to chat with, and can only share your user id
plus signal guarantees the metadata is encrypted. is the same true for delta chat?
for WhatsApp the founders quit over privacy concerns, and made signal
there’s also a nice (long) article by propublica from a few years ago
there’s also session
unfortunately privacy and usability are inversely related. session is private. I loved it. but I had no one to chat with 😃
I had no idea if any of my contacts were on session or not.
you need a phone number to make an account. but you can chat with others without divulging your phone number
is there a search function in Lemmy to search for posts? is it indexed and does it show up in search engine results?
if yes, that might help a lot with getting traffic
not mildly infuriating. it’s very infuriating
lol. so I told my mom im deleting Whatsapp. if she wants to keep in touch with me she can install signal, or pay for international texts and calls.
she installed signal 😃
the US is run by billionaires and corporations.
you can live in peace as long as you don’t inconvenience them too much, and keep paying them
lol ditto. but the first thing I do on new installs is chsh /bin/zsh
, replace caps lock with control and enable vi keys. otherwise I’m dysfunctional
it’s not a scam. it’s just designed to help those with money sue those without.
its the obscure parts and items that get me going back to Amazon…
you should especially do this on Friday 5:00pm in production, right before going on an international vacation with bad Internet.
i used to use zfs for backups via snapshots. but I find using rsync and hard links is much more convenient. i can use standard tools to look through backups and track which files changed if needed.
why do you want to make the switch?
I use Lemmy because there’s a good ad free app (jerboa)