FrostyPolicy @ FrostyPolicy @suppo.fi

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Been using fastmail for over 10 years and it's fantastic. Two thing you should be aware though: 1st Australia is part of the five eyes, 2nd they have their servers (last I checked) in new york.

The internet is what you get via your ISP. You're talking about www which is part of the internet but not the internet itself. There are plenty of things to do on the internet that aren't www e.g. email works over the internet and I'm not talking about something like gmail but the communication between email servers and between your email provider and you when you use imap or pop3.

email, calendar, contacts

Fastmail. Migration to some European provider is planned. K-9 for email on phone. For email/calendar/contacts Thunderbird on desktop. Contact and calendar sync Davx5 on phone. Fossify for contacts and etar for calendar on phone.

cloud storage

Filen. Zero knowledge e2ee service from Germany

maps & navigation

OSM-AND+

search

qwant (from France) and sometimes DDG or startpage

browser

LibreWolf + uBlock origin

notes

just a text editor (Pluma)

office

Latex & LibreOffice when needed

messaging

Signal, some contacts are still in TG

video calling

Don't use

social media

Lemmy & Mastodon

music streaming

Don't use. I get mine either on physical media if possible (cd) or in flac format (Bandcamp)

video streamming

Nebula, Odysee and FreeTube for youtube content

password manager

keepassXC. DB is synced via cloud to other devices

vpn & dns

Mullvad

firewall

Linux built-in (netfilter) configured thru Yast

android os

Graphene OS

app store

F-droid and some via Aurora store

photo gallery

Digikam locally on desktop. Fossify gallery on phone.

weather

Finnish meteorological institution

smart assistant

Don't use

anything else

I ditched google mostly years ago. Graphene OS is the latest one and that was only this year. FreeTube is also fairly recent (sometime last year). Before that I used piped but that was nuked by google. More precisely they made it impossible to use. On software I've been FOSS first for over 10 years. Using OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my desktop and laptop (Thinkpad L580).

It's a mod. Valve approved I believe. https://store.steampowered.com/app/440000/Portal_2_Community_Edition/

Have had it on my wishlist since 08-2021. Still not available.

Would have used sopuli.xyz but they weren't taking registrations at that time.

Aurora is just an anonymous front-end to google play store.

Laughs in FreeTube.

Very good article. Thanks OP for posting.

“Microsoft is dedicated to strengthening innovation, competitiveness and cybersecurity in Europe”. So? MS is still an American company.

Does the US government want Google’s developers of the Chromium codebase to work on another company’s payroll instead?

Probably. The point is that google can't have any direct control of the browser as there's a conflict of interest between google's ad and other business and how web is developing. Take manifest v3 for example. Blocking content blockers directly benefits google's ad-business. Also removing support for third party cookies etc benefits google's ad-business while hampering others.

Default Tumbleweed one: Linux 6.14.4-1-default

Just checked. At least the windows installer on their website is for v138. And their rpm repo is at 138 as well. I'm using an unofficial build due to it not being available in Tumbleweed repos and that version is at 137.

The feature is in FF 138 and LibreWolf is at 137.

I would quit youtube immediately but there are some good content creators that don't post their videos elsewhere and I do want to watch them. Gladly there's FreeTube for that.

Curious choice to write a c++ program for this instead of doing the same thing in a powershell script.

One feature it should have: delete itself after running to leave no traces of such a tool.

The correct way for Finnish is: Osta eurooppalaista. Though if you want to say "you should buy European" (that's how I'd interpret the original intent) then you'd say: Ostathan eurooppalaista. The first one is more of a demand then a recommendation.

at least existing features and data remain free.

For now.

Quite true. Linux and all modules loaded into it are GPL licensed. The userland and tooling on the other hand can be licensed however. They are free to close source on anything except kernel code.

This is the first step in moving to fully closed source. I guess degooled versions are getting too popular thus a threat to google's business.

The file system was not unmounted cleanly so the dirty bit is 1 -> windows tells you to check the drive. This clears the dirty bit even if nothing was wrong.

laughs in btrfs and xfs