Today i installed arch linux for the first time
Today i installed arch linux for the first time
Brave being listed alongside Firefox
Bestie Brave is literally just Chromium again. Not to mention the fact that their CEO is someone who got ousted from Firefox for being a tremendous bigot. It's not a better alternative to Chrome, it's just the same thing again. It you must use a chromium browser, use ungoogled.
For fellow paranoids:
Mullvad browser is a fairly new Firefox fork which aims to reduce fingerprinting potential while also having sane (paranoid) defaults. Developed with the Tor project. Basically the Tor browser but without connecting to the Tor network. Passes coveryourtracks.eff.org.
SimpleX Chat is a fairly new privacy oriented IM platform which seems to address many issues current ones have. Development is very active. E2E, video and voice calls, decentralized, doesn’t have user ID of any kind.
Tech paranoid all the way, although not the same type of tech paranoid as Luke Smith. The only good computer is one you have the hardware schematics to (i.e. virtually none of them). Thinkpads are just another brand of overpriced laptop. Besides the occasional steam game, I heavily prefer FOSS only and will flat out refuse almost anything that has drm. My unlocked bootloader android phone is so heavily locked down with privacy stuff that I cause Google to lose money merely by existing.
I fit somewhere between normie and conservative. Philosophically, I agree with the tech conservative, but I also have shit to do and when FOSS gets in my way, it's hard to justify it.
I use Firefox because it was an easy switch.
I used Signal until they killed sms support. Sorry, most of the people I know use a default messages app. And the day I force everyone I know to use Signal is the day they stop talking to me.
I dabble in Linux, but I main Windows because I'm not a programmer or IT admin. I know how to use it, for better or worse, and I don't have to memorize terminal commands to perform even basic tasks. Sure, gaming is getting better on linux, but it's still a compromised experience and I still, to this day, have to look up tutorials and terminal command every time I try to do anything on my Linux box.
But...wherever possible, I use FOSS software.
I like to call it the tech pragmatist. I agree with the conservative, but I'm not that smart and I got shit to do.
I dislike this meme, it's inaccurate
I watched one HTML video 5 years ago, and now I'm using a De-Googled phone, Linux, and get a more paranoid than I should when I see and Echo Dot. This is not what I signed up for...
Somehow I fall within all these categories
Finally someone who doesn't call me either a corporate simp or paranoid
Middle panel on most points, but only because too dumb & impulsive to be tech paranoid.
Don't be dumb & impulsive, kids, it is not a good mix.
People care so much about the weirdest stuff.
I tick all the boxes for the middle one
With every passing year, little by little I go deeper to the privacy paranoid side.
But my focus is way more anti big corporation than pro privacy, that fact those are almost one and the same is mostly a side effect for me.
I am on arch rn and I think that I'm still on the middle one from the pic.
Weird to put the Self Hosted podcast on the FOSS-only Gentoo user seeing that Jupiter Broadcasting has been on the contrarian "Red Hat is actually good" train.
Oh god, this meme. It's not something I've ever seen before, but it's so true.
God, Tor, freaking Tor. Bless it's heart, really, but it's practically unusable. At least for me. I was really getting into it, trying to use it as a daily browser, ran with so much less ram than all the others. But it's practically unusable! All the shitty websites I had to go on daily for School practically didn't work, and half the websites would always take at least 10-15 minutes to get working because they keep thinking I'm a hacker. Or it's just region blocked, and I have to spend SO MUCH TIME making new connections in the hopes it doesn't go to a single blacklisted country. Sometimes even with a phone there to authenticate, it just doesn't work. So I had Firefox anyway, it was literally what Tor was built off of. And because of how unbelievably inconvenient and annoying Tor (Or more accurately, how shitty the Internet in general has got, I really wouldn't mind logging in to every website every time, with a phone authentication every so often) was, I ended up just using Firefox and using Tor for dark web stuff. Essentially, what it's supposed to be used for.
Linux...man, Linux was always one of those things I wanted to get into, but thinking critically, it would be very dumb for me to do. Almost every single thing I do is required by a Windows app. Critical and niche shit, mind you. So essentially, it'd be the Tor situation all over again. I'd be doing effectively everything worthless on Linux while molesting my computer for a VM for windows, which I would be doing on a daily basis for practically as long as I use the computer. So I'm practically stuck being a normie. I try to do everything I can to stop all these companies and shit tracking me and have my machine running faster, like running scripts to debloat windows, but in the end, it doesn't amount to too much. I'm stuck a normie, no matter how much of a poser I act.
Guess I'm between normie and conservative since I use Windows and Firefox.
How do you tell if someone is an Arch user? You don't, they will tell you.
I guess I am a cross between “Normie” and “Conservative”. I use macOS and Fedora daily, I watch MKBHD but also watch FOSS YouTubers. I use WhatsApp, but only because, in Netherlands, it’s impossible to live without it. I don’t use any Chromium, and I use Firefox, but I also use Safari.
Fuck getting labeled.
I feel like WhatsApp should be in the middle. The app is terrible, but the messaging is actually encrypted. We paranoids also appreciate Signal, and Element disappointingly gets no play here.
Also:
*believes not every company is inherently evil*
It's kind of weird, then, how they all end up doing evil stuff, including the guys that explicitly set out with the philosophy "don't be evil".
We can all tell conservative is supposed to be the enlightened one, but unless the creator is using a very malice-driven definition of evil (as opposed to including accidental evil) this line is an own-goal.
I think I'm somewhere in between two and three.
Tech conservative, apparently. Although fuck big tech, you can achieve the sake thing with decentralised federated services or blockchain (in some cases).
Tech conservative. Still use Windows unfortunately.
Hardcore (tech)conservative here. I will survive the AI doppelganger crisis.
Firmly in camp conservative (yikes) Fav OS: Fedora Fav browser: Firefox Fav apps: Thunder and Element and technically feeder but only because I haven't had the energy to write my own rss feed consumer nervously in dart/flutter
I'm in the process of putting together my own next cloud and moving to proton mail. After that I'll be able to install bridges from a self hosted matrix to discord for people and teams for work. I use edge, outlook, and teams on my work computer but it occasionally connects to my home network so at some point I'll probably put it on an isolated vlan.
Every attempt of me trying to use Linux on my main desktop (I do use it on other systems just fine) ends up with something not working due to Nvidia + Wayland or whatever. I kind of just want to get stuff done with my computer, and so me trying several Linux distributions rarely gets further than the experimentation stage. Windows 10 LTSC just works and whatever Linux distributions I tried eventually got in my way so much that I just couldn't be bothered anymore.
Not sure how much of a "healthy balance" Windows 10 LTSC + O&O ShutUp10 is, but I'm fine with it.
I never understood why people embrace Brave so much, I tried it a few times, but it just feels like a bloated version of Google Chrome to me with all its crypto crap. Firefox is solid, but I hop between browsers a lot, and I'm currently using the closed-source browser Vivaldi.
I even gave in to VS Code a while ago because it's widely supported with extensions for pretty much every language, framework and library imaginable. I tried JetBrains products (and I have an ongoing yearly license for their "All Products Pack") but I found some quirks/bugs where I had endless conversations with their support team not being able to fix the problem, and so I kind of moved on from that as well (except for DataGrip). My favorite editor of all time is Sublime Text to be honest, but it doesn't have good support for modern tooling anymore, and it can be quite cumbersome to get LSP to work right for your use case. I might give it another go at some point.
I guess I'm somewhere between the normie and the conservative.
Self-hosting podcast is paranoia??
You'll learn pretty soon that the really cool kids are running zOS
Where does Element/Matrix fit in here? It doesn't really seem like Paranoid like XMPP since people have been using it pretty regularly now, not just paranoid people.
Surprised Zorin OS is there.
I like it - even paid for the Pro. But I'm more partial to Pop OS as my favorite Debian based distro.
I can't be a Tech Paranoid.