Have you had any privacy wins recently? Anything you’ve tried or tweaked to improve your privacy? Anyone who’s listened to something you’ve said? Do you have any privacy enhancing projects or changes you’re working on implementing
I managed to convert someone to Signal this week. Was having reception difficulties with a phone call (both of us in spotty areas) and after a drop out, managed to get them on board with Signal. A very notable quality improvement in the call which helped reinforce to them it was a good idea.
I’m going to work on setting up Pihole over the weekend.
Note: I did steal this topic idea from Techlore.
My street is finally getting fiberoptic internet! That means I’m going from around 4MiB/s to at least 400 more likely 600 MiB/s… with around 3/4 of that in upload speed. I have already canceled all my streaming services and external servers, the parts for my homeserver are on their way.
No more Google Drive, hello Nextcloud, no more Spotify, hello Finamp, no more Netflix and Crunchyroll, hello Jellyfin, no more Bitwarden, hello Vaultwarden.
I’ll finally be able to self-host all my Docker containers fir my website-, email- and game-server, I can have a homeserver for my media-streaming even when I’m not at home. I might even create my own Immich and Lemmy Instances. Just need to read up on NixOS and get a good, reliable system running.
Fuck big Tech, I’ll host my own shit and offer it to all my friends.
Turning off Icloud completely and relying only on self hosted alternatives, like Immic,Baikal etc.
To give Apple some credit though, they do support 3rd party services pretty well( i.e Cal/Card Dav).
Gone back to paying for nearly everything in cash (good for budgeting I find too, can’t make impulse purchases if I only have enough money to buy what I came to the shops for). I also got a couple more friends to switch to Signal and make some other privacy-related changes. Slowly getting there
Got a secondhand Pixel phone and installed GrapheneOS. I love it.
Bro how did u write exactly what I wanted to say 😄 I bought a used pixel phone and installed GrapheneOS as well Also I got Mullvad VPN and a bunch of open source apps, its so fun! But the only problem I meet is that some apps are depends on google services a lot. My bank app for example. But I solve it by installing it for a second user And it will take some time to find good replacement for gboard and google translate combination
Duress password is priceless feature, right?
Can you access your bank account through a web browser?
Installed LMS (and got some of my former music streaming server to send me my listening data as
.csvvia GDPR request) and WireGuard this week.Also took the occasion to clean up and simplify my
nginxreverse proxy a bit, making the addition of a new service on my server easier.A lot Cause I only start worry about my privacy Now i got Graohene OS, Mullvad VPN and I’m about to set up Nextcloud on my vps to get read of Google drive Also I replace gmail, Google search, google translate and almost every google apps with FOSS alternative Its so fun to explore it
Nice, leaving Google is a lot of work but worth it, kudos!
I somehow keep getting people interested in switching from Windows to Linux with a decently higher conversion rate compared to my friends; and it happened again today so I count that as a recent win.
Went from dual-booting Linux Mint and Windows to completely removing Windows and switching to Arch.
Every person who switches to Linux I see on Lemmy is a win
I can finally pin-point what gave away the latest game I played. I was playing 2077 and their launch client problaby sold the data about my steam account.
Privacy wins…hmm well I’ve managed to block 1,824,754 trackers, ads, cookies, and assorted undesirable traffic from my network this month.
how did you get that number?
Combined number of blocks of all lists on my pFsense box. I am filtering quite heavily. You could do about the same thing with a PI-Hole Unbound.
Been on GrapheneOS for a few weeks. Great daily driver. I feel like I have control of my phone. It constantly asks me what to share and how much.
It sort of reminds me of the granular control you get on Linux.
Been years since I flashed a new ROM but it was way easier than things had been. Literally a web installer. Love it!
Running ADGuard at home and being able to only use Linux privately
I’m using Graphene OS since a week. It is a blast! I can only recommend it!
For my girlfriend I set up e/OS on a Fairphone 5. Until now she is not really interested. But will see :D
My privacy win was also to migrate a small WhatsApp group to Signal!😎
You actually got a WhatsApp group to move??!!?!!?? That’s so hard! Congratulations.
Nice! I recently set up adguard home on my local network 😎 I’m also self hosting my own audio server with navidrome. Now I don’t have to deal with spotify :D
Take a look at Feishin and Tempo for android. 2 great music players that work well with navidrome.
Thank you so much. I have been looking for a good android client to go with navidrome. I tried symdfonium but the audio quality didn’t sound very good. I just tried Tempo and it works like a charm.
Tempo is beautiful. I was using it but was having some crashes so I switched to dsub2000. Not as pretty but functioned better for me. Tempo is a fantastic choice though.
Nice, I installed navidrome as well (along with the lidarr stack to download music) but I have troubles finding reliable sources for music, may I ask where you get your albums from?
Soulseek is a life saver!
It’s in my bucket list! Gotta check it out soon then, thanks!
Put graphene on my phone and really like it.
Moved chat with my partner to signal.
Germany came out again against chat control.
Germany opposing chat controll is such good news. But we have to wait to see the true outcome.
A good thing was also that Germany officially said that “suspicionless surveillance must be taboo in states that have rule of law”. This indicates it’s a firm position and not a flimsy “maybe tomorrow…” position.
