kotaku.com Jeep Owners Dealing With Excessive Pop-Up Ads, Reminding Us How The Future Sucks
The car company says that the ads were the result of a software glitch
In my case, I tinker quite a bit when I'm bored, and immutable distros, as well as atomic distros, raise barriers that I'd rather not have to jump over to have my fill of tinkering.
This started happening to my wife and me in 2 separate AMD computers about 3 months ago on Fedora 41,for no apparent reason.
I ended up switching to PopOS and my wife went back to Windows (she was dual booting).
We both came back to Fedora as soon as 42 was live, and have had no issues (yet).
We both use Fedora Workstation on Mutter, not i3, so could have been a different situation.
I'm not French, never been to France, but this is a little step in the right direction. We should be happy and celebrate every one of these little steps. If nothing else, this makes some noise and starts turning heads towards more privacy friendly software.
Thanks for this. I wish more of us posted resources like this one more often.
Thanks so much. This is really in-depths.
This blows my mind, honestly. Since I moved to Linux about 8 years ago, I've had little to no issues. No force of nature can ever make me go back to Windows and it's constant crashing for no reason. I run PopOS on a PC, Fedora Workstation on my laptop, my wife is also in Fedora, kids too (Nobara), and everything works. Mind you, the only device that is "made for Linux" is my laptop.
Your experience is very out of the ordinary.
Wao, this is not bad at all. I wonder how it behaves as a daily driver. It would probably be easy for me to adopt as I don't have a single mainstream app in my phone at all.
That's a first step. He'll soon hate Google and move to GrapheneOS and start self-hosting. No, wait, that was me. Never mind.
Yeah, only to say "follow me on reddit" at the end.
Dude, it's all good. I doubt anyone has entirely removed intrusion from their lives. I've been the nut in my family, friends and work environments (not complaining, I actually love being that person) on privacy and cybersecurity. I still keep my Gmail account, the one I used to buy all my movies when I thought Google wasn't evil. My kids love using the Lenovo Google Assistant screens. I have 2 Chromecast with Google TV with the account I mentioned (my TVs do not connect to the internet). I play on my PS5 with my account and use my credit card (none of that temp credit card or cash or crypto), but I haven't used my PayPal in years (but still have it). I buy shit on Amazon (it's so convenient).
The point being, do what you can to safeguard your privacy as much as possible, as long as it does not affect your mental health. You need Facebook for whatever reason? You can minimize the invasion, and still use it. (Full disclosure, I fucking hate Meta, so I don't use any of its platforms, or even their open source language model). I'm on GrapheneOS in my phone, use Linux exclusively in my personal life, but I'm picking up a surface pro 11th Gen for work this Friday. I need my job, everything is windows based, and it's just getting harder to use Ms shit from Linux effectively. So, I use Windows. I have a good job, get paid well, so, I have to decide if that's worth some of my privacy.
Live life man, enjoy, be happy, then worry about the rest.
My experience has been the polar opposite of yours. Of course, depends on the dock and TV as much as it depends on the deck, so our mileage will vary.
This is a pretty nice initiative. Thanks for sharing.
That's not a privacy win for anyone. What this is is a marketing win for Crapple and Google.
She's an absolute darling, and super smart and knowledgeable.
I get what you say about Obsidian just falling off of the face of the earth, but it is just that, markdown, so you can migrate it to any MD based notes app, like Joplin.
Now, I don't think those meet the nice UX requirement.
I agree here. AdguardHome is way easier to configure and just have it work. Evidently, it's always important to maintain, like any other software, but it is way less hands-on than PiHole.
I'm honestly more scared of portainer than actually running compose from CLI 🤣
Finally, common sense. Thank you.
Another car maker banned from my life forever
At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.
Mainstream social media is incredibly invasive
cheezburger.com Employee gets written up by HR for posting about disliking Mondays on personal social media account: 'Someone in the office is creeping on my social media'
There are a number of reasons why HR might reprimand you for something… but this seems a bit far-fetched. Here, we have an employee who, like any other twenty-something employee in the 2020s, has a personal social media account where they post photos with friends and the occasional relatable memes. ...
Because of crap like this is why I haven't been on any mainstream social media for 7+ years. And where do companies get off going over employees' personal crap anyway? For the record, I believe EVERYONE hates Mondays.
That feeling of no giving a damn about Windows
This is just a post about satisfaction. After years of using Linux exclusively, I was going over my Feeder just now, and just figured that I automatically dismiss anything containing the words "Microsoft" or "Windows" in it.
This made me realize how much better we Linux users actually have it.
Anyway, that's all this is about.
Migrating Joplin to JTX
I want to use Radicale and do away with Joplin altogether. I finally understand JTX + Davx5 enough to be able to change my workflow to that. Now, I have around 400+ notes in Joplin. Is there any way to migrate from Markdown to ICS? So far I've only seen the option of an MD table to ICS, but I don't even know how to turn all those .md files into one markdown table.
Has any of you tried something similar before?
JMP.chat referral link
I didn't know where else to go, so if this is not the place, please let me know and I'll delete this.
I'm ready to port over to JMP.chat, and was wondering if anyone could share a referral link/code for me to avoid the 15 dollars activation of the number. I would really appreciate it.
Suggestions for privacy and security blog
I'm entertaining the idea of starting a digital privacy and security blog. As a matter of fact, I am self hosting it right now, but mainly for friends, family and acquaintances. It's super basic, more rants than articles honestly, 🤣
Since the only 2 social networks I have are Lemmy and Mastodon, I've been avoiding allowing sharing to Facebook, Twitter and other mainstream SNs.
My wife thinks I should just host it on a cloud and share it everywhere with the argument of, and I quote, "the platforms you use are already full of people as paranoid as you. If you really want to bring your knowledge and experience to others, you should allow us to share to the platforms full of people oblivious to the dangers you constantly slam us with" (which is absolutely true. I'm a thorn on their side, lol.
What do you guys think? Should I add features to share to those places? Would you if it was you? Under no circumstances will I post on any of them, and if I allow to share from my blog, my inner c
Fuck Hilton: Black Hat USA 2024, DEF CON 32 attendees treated like children – or criminals – with invasive hotel room checks
This is absolutely ridiculous. Imagine some fuckers just coming into your room while you're with your SO making love or something.
github.com Browser closes after start with "Your profile 'MullvadBrowser' could not be loaded". · Issue #46 · flathub/net.mullvad.MullvadBrowser
Suddenly today I cannot start the flatpak anymore. After start a popup appears with the text: "Profile not found" - "Your profile "MullvadBrowser" cannot be loaded. It may not exist or may not be a...
If you are having issues with Mullvad in Linux (Flatpak) and getting a message along the lines of ""Your profile 'MullvadBrowser' could not be loaded"", it's a known bug and the only workaround right now is to use the test version:
flatpak install --user https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/112221/net.mullvad.MullvadBrowser.flatpakref
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Sony wants to get all of our kids' accounts, LOL
I just got this email from Sony. My kids use their profiles offline (meaning they don't even have a playstation account) on their PS4, and use my games. And now they want to allow kids to link their other accounts (my kids only have a SimpleX user to chat with their family, LOL).
The sad thing is that a lot of parents will go: "Nice, they can now have it all in one place!"
Love how they say this at the end:
Stay tuned for more details. In the meantime, we recommend talking to your child about account linking so that they can safely enjoy these new features while playing on PlayStation.
They fucking call these FEATURES!
Louis Rossmann ripped a new one on Adobe
odysee.com Louis rips Adobe to shreds over their garbage response, because they deserve it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxMCm941WA
I just love this guy when he's riled up. Makes me feel all warm and cozy 🤣
Looking for a VOIP service to replace Google Fi
This may end up being a bit convoluted, so I will do my best to keep it as short as possible and to the point.
I have a US number with Google Fi, have had it for about 8 years.
This is the only reason why I still maintain that one Google account. The benefit is that I only use it when I am in the United States, and when I'm not, I just pause the service and don't get charged.
However, I feel the string need to completely eliminate Google from my life permanently.
Does anyone know of a service similar to this one? It can be an MVNO or VOIP for my phone, and I would like to port my number as well. I found "phoner", but I can't pause the service, so I would be stuck paying a bill I don't use as much or loosing my number.
If the service is private (not to be confused with anonymous, of course) even better.
Move UnRaid from metal to Proxmox
I have a trusty UnRaid server that has been running great for almost 3 years now, with some kinks and headaches here and there, but mostly very stable. Now I'm entertaining the idea of setting that box up with ProxMox, and running UnRaid virtualized. The reason being that I want to use UnRaid exclusively as a NAS and then run all dockers and VMs on ProxMox (at least that's how I'm picturing it). I would like to know your opinion on this idea. All I have is Nextcloud, Immich, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Calibre, Kavita and a Windows VM I use to update some hardware every now and then. I mainly want to do that for the backup capabilities in ProxMox for each instance. Storage is not a concern, and I have 64GB of ECC Ram running in that box. What are the Pros and Cons, or is it even worth it to move all this to ProxMox?
System76 DKMS Drivers for Silverblue
I need some help figuring out how to install all the DKMS drivers, and firmware manager, firmware daemon, etc on Silverblue.
It's easy on Fedora but I haven't found a single instance explaining how to do it in a Fedora atomic distro.
These are the instructions for Fedora.
Dual monitor suspend, one monitor does not turn on when waking up.
Finally got my wife away from Windows and on Fedora 40 (Gnome 46).
Now, when her PC goes to suspend and when she wakes it up, one of her 2 monitors doesn't wake up.
Both are connected to HDMI ports (no dedicated video card, just the integrated card in her Ryzen 9).
Any ideas on what could be happening? I wouldn't want her to go back to Winblows over something so insignificant, but she would.
Great FOSS Trailing service
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13523342
I made wanderer - a self-hosted trail and GPS track database
Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application.
Core Features:
- Manage your trails
- Extensive map integration and visualization
- Share trails with other people and explore theirs
- Advanced filter and search functionality
- Create custom lists to organize your trails further
- Chique design with a dark and light theme
- Fully mobile compatible
wanderer is completely open-source. You can find the GitHub repo here: https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer
wanderer is still under active development so if you encounter any bugs/errors or have
In case you want something to send to your humans that say "I have nothing to hide" when you mention privacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7D6Fx0fTQ
Not 100% in agreement with some of her videos, but I believe this one is spot on, and probably easier to understand by regular folk.
Why you should #degoogle!
I set up a Raspberry Pi 3 with AdguardHome for a friend of mine, and told him to disconnect everything at home and try to watch anything on his phone, being the only device using his home's internet.
He just sent me this, and now he's ready to #degoogle 🤣🤣🤣
He says there were hundreds in less than 5 minutes.
Android Keyboard with keypad?
I've looked under my bed, in our pantry,and even went under the deck, nothing. Please help me find a FOSS android keyboard in which I can have the numbers to the right of the keyboard, like a computer keyboard keypad, even better if it has gifs.. The only android keyboard I know about that has that option is Swiftkey. Being a Microsoft app, you can understand why I'm not willing to use it anymore. AnySoftKeyboard and Florisboard don't have the option,at least I could not find it.