SimonSaysStuff @ SimonSaysStuff @lemmy.world

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I wonder what Infosys promised or paid the congressman.

This sort of thing needs stopped before it gets out of hand.

I have fond memories of the Internet 20-25 years ago.

How did it turn into this much of a mess? Social Media, SEO, adverts, data mining, profiling, privacy nightmares... what a shit show.

These are definitely an improvement over the current icons but while some of the design rules are evident, i think a bit of refining is in order.

The games and download folders both need a complete redesign as the ignore the design rules that the other folders use, and why are the symbols on each folder white except for the Mac folder?

Looked into Graphene and its definitely appealing, but until i get a Pixel I'll need to stick with Lineage.

I honestly dont know how most of us can make a move happen. Its a shit state of affairs.

I hoped that Scotland was going to be our get out of jail card too. I'm still hoping.

Sweet Jesus, it really is time to bail. Any recommendations on where to go? I'm hearing the weather is much better in France and Spain.

Is Scotland on board with this dictatorship malarky or are they fighting it? I didn't see them kick up a fuss about the online safety bill which made it to law, which makes me think they aren't fighting it.

It can be difficult. I went cold turkey and if people wanted to contact me they either had to SMS me, email me, or install Signal. Most went with the latter over time apart from some older family members that still use SMS. I'm never going to persuade them to change that behaviour and that's OK. Overall it wasnt too tricky it just took a bit of time.

I actually ran into more problems with a former employer demanding that I install WhatsApp on my personal phone. That got really messy and stressful.

Excellent advice to buy a private domain. All I would add to your comment is find a registrar that will allow you to not publicise your personal information - name, address, etc. I'm sure they will charge for this but its a small price to pay.

This is great and a step in the right direction, roll on self-sufficient streets, villages, and towns.

Mixed emotions here. News like this is great to see, and at the same time the fact that since Brexit Britain is going in the opposite direction depresses the hell out of me.

Morning,

Another Brit here. I went through something like this...

1. Moved emails from Microsoft and Google to a provider like Proton, Tutanota or Mailbox.org.
2. Degoogled mobile by moving to LineageOS and replaced apps with FOSS equivalents. Use the likes of Mull, K9 Mail, Aegis, etc.
3. Started using Signal instead of WhatsApp, SMS and Telegram, etc. Persuading friends and family to install it can be a challenge but stick with it.
4. Implemented Pihole and unbound to minimise adverts and tracking. Blocked access to the internet for smart home devices (they were in the house when we bought it).
5. After it came out that MI5 had been working with BT to spy on internet users I started using a VPN almost permanently, then on mobile too (after I discovered EE heavily monitor all mobile data usage). Look at Proton or Mullvad for VPN. I also moved to a small ISP recently after EE took over Plusnet. Maybe look at the likes of Zen and avoid the bigger ISPs.
6. This isn't for everyone and I'm not going to be one of those that preach to do it but I got shot of MS Windows and jumped into Linux. I still have a Windows 10 VM for apps I can't get to run under Linux. Initially though I used the likes of Windows 10 Privacy or O&O Shutup to disable as much of the crap I wasn't happy with and O&O AppBuster to remove built in apps I didn't want. I used simplwall to control what app had network access too.
7. When i eventually got around to changing email addresses for online accounts, I setup temp and burner adddresses (look at Simplelogin or anonaddy). I share my actual email with trusted sources only.
8. I never use my real personal details for any service, online or otherwise, other than official ones, government, banking, etc.
9. Bought a little secondhand NAS for the house that I run Jellyfin from to stream music and movies. Cancelled Spotify. Also cancelled Sky and got a freesat box.
10. Avoid car insurance companies that demand you have a black box. I've only been pressure once into having one and I've been driving for a while now.

If you want to mimimise your bank or online shops profiling you, shop in physical stores and pay with cash. Extreme maybe but I know people that do this.

Finally whilst not explicitly part of my privacy journey, that journey ended up influencing my decision when it came to changing my car. The previous one was newer with lots of connected services, and as I discovered terrible privacy and data sharing policies. The current one is older with the only connected service being the tracker. Like I say, not part of my privacy journey but once I got into that way of thinking, it influenced my decision.

Not being able to be selective in what I download from KDrive isn't the end of the world, I can live with that. My bigger problem is how I get the files from Onedrive to KDrive. Uploading them from my home would take months as my connection is pretty poor. I can't see a way of transferring the files directly, but I'll do more digging.

In terms of the family package, I couldn't find this at all. Do they definitely still do it or am i just blind? I ended up signing up for KSuite standard package for now to test things out but its probably overkill for what I need.

Thanks thisfro, I've signed up for KSuite standard for myself to try things out. If all good I'll likely up the subscription to a Pro one for the extra KDrive space.

Microsoft has openly encouraged piracy as far back as the 90s. I remember an interview with Gates where he said as much.

This has been part of Microsoft's business model, especially for Windows and Office for 30 years. They actively encouraged pirating the software to ensure it cemented itself as the defacto standard in homes and offices with a view that one day users would have no choice but pay for it. For over 20 years now this has been part of the bigger desktop-as-a-service goal.

Soon businesses and home users will have no choice but to remotely log into a Windows system that is hosted in a datacentre and provided by Microsoft or one of their partners. Local installs will be a thing of the past. Think Citrix Presentation Server and thin clients which is where this whole idea started a long time ago.

HTC Desire, can't remember the year but I do rember it was a damn good phone.

Damn it. I can't upvote and down vote at the same time. Firstly, yes I agree that a total rebranding is needed, as the logos for MicroOS, Kalpa, etc are well... Uninspired. Secondly, leave the penguin alone man.

GDPR clearly states you can contact any part of the organisation with your request. You can make your request verbally or in writing and they must acknowledge it. They can't refuse and make you use their app.

For fun send them a Subject Access Request and if they don't acknowledge it, report them to the ICO (if you're in the UK)

This has actually been on Microsoft's internal roadmap for a while now. The bigger goal is to move to a Desktop as a Service model for Windows.

My wife and merged CD and DVD collections years ago and all our photo albums and documents (in binders) are all in the office, so I guess technically we have access to each others files... does this count?