If you like “unlikely to break, don’t mind my software and kernel a bit behind”, anything Debian or Ubuntu based will be fine. Now, if you want cutting edge, even if you have to get pissed and confused a bit, Arch or Fedora based, in my opinion.
At the end of the day it comes down to taste and need. They all work (mostly 😋).
This is the best advice, in my opinion, keeping your data in a separate partition (or a separate drive if possible). This makes distro-hopping a breeze, since your data remains intact between distros.
After that, jump around as much as you want until you find something you’re comfortable with.
Well, I’m keeping mine. I’m actually very happy with it. This article is full slop, with loads of disinformation, and an evident lack of research. It looks like it was made with some Ai bullshit and the writer didn’t even check what that thing vomited.
This I can agree on. They would have been better served and made it clearer to their users by clarifying that it is not ‘zero trust’ and not e2ee. At the end of the day, once the masses start trusting a company they stop digging deep, just read the first couple of paragraphs of the details, if at all, but some of us are always digging to make sure we can find the weakest links in our security as well as our privacy to try and strengthen them. So yeah, pretty stupid of them.
Where does it say “zero trust” ‘on Protons own page’? It does not say “zero-trust” anywhere, it says “zero-access”. The data is encrypted at rest, so it is not e2ee. They never mention end-to-end encryption for Lumo, except for ghost mode, and they are talking about the chat once it’s complete and you choose to leave it there to use later, not about the prompts you send in.
Zero-access encryption
Your chats are stored using our battle-tested zero-access encryption, so even we can’t read them, similar to other Proton services such as Proton Mail, Proton Drive, and Proton Pass. Our encryption is open source and trusted by over 100 million people to secure their data.
Which means that they are not advertising anything they are not doing or cannot do.
By posting this disinformation all you’re achieving is getting people to pedal back to all the shit services out there for “free” because many will start believing that privacy is way harder than it actually is so ‘what’s the point’ or, even worse, no alternative will help me be more private so I might as well just stop trying.
Where do I apply for citizenship? Non-resident citizen, as I still need to work to survive 😕
Let us know when it’s ready for Alpha testing. Most of us will gladly give it a shot and help iron it out.
No, still required. However, you can have a username of sorts to give to people and block finding you by phone number in the platform.
Oh, NICE! Thank you so much. Great idea.
The information department informs that there is nothing new to inform. More information when we are informed.
Cars, yes, driven by humans. But not by AI bullshit.
Even if it’s based on Signal’s encryption, it doesn’t mean it’s implemented as it is in Signal.
I would argue that, if that is a requisite for them being your friends, they are not your friends. Win - win.
Some times, to both statements 😂
This is not only very similar to my experience and entirely possible, but it’s also extremely healthy mentally and, date I say, physically.
I am (was?) one of those. Working on eliminating or changing the passwords and emails of my 550+ accounts. I’m creating a simplelogin email for each of the ones I’m keeping, setting up a randomly generated password for each as well (24+ characters long with every possible character available), trying to delete the accounts of services I don’t want/need anymore, and then setting up 2fa on Aegis if they don’t accept a hardware tokens.
But it’s an intense and long process, though absolutely worth it. With work and personal life, I’m guessing I can be done in a couple of weeks.
Thanks so much. It’s refreshing to see how some people still have common sense.
In all honesty, I’m very tired of these invasions. But the reality is that this was created by us, parents, families, and tech corps and governments just saw the opening and walked right in.
Tech made us lazy, we fell into the bliss of convenience while entirely dropping our rights on their laps to do with as they wish. I’m guilty of that myself. I allowed Google home and Alexa devices into my home and used them all the time. Then it all clicked when I started seeing information on subjects that interested me, my wife and my kids all over the place, without even looking for them. I panicked bad when I realized something was very wrong, but the damage was already done.
This is what got me into the Privacy and security wagon, and it took me almost 8 years to revert that as much as possible and finally have some sense of safety (because some of that stuff is out there for good, and there’s nothing any of us can do about it).
Now I keep a sort of digital fortress around my family and myself, and I not willing to let it go anymore. This has made our family much more interactive in real life while at the same time harder targets for tech corps and governments.
Evidently, there are some of these that are unavoidable for us common folk, but we can compartmentalize our lives in ways that it’s harder, if not impossible to tie everything about us together into a single fully integrated profile. Yes, it requires work, time, money and missing out on some convenience, but the alternative is infinitely worse, full of unknown dangers that can affect us now or later.
Until most people are fully pushing back on all these dangers, it will only get way worse over time.
I believe that removing the possibility of profit for tech companies is the only way to effectively reverse this trend, however, most people are too distracted by all the screens around them and the carefully crafted content made precisely for this purpose to figure out what is really going on, and by the time we all end up figuring it out, it may very well be too late.
So, I would like to see less excuses by most people on how “it’s too hard for most people”, “some parents are not as tech savvy” and similar BS. That only helps keep the myth of “there’s nothing I can do about it” I alive, which is what all these institutions are banking on.
I’m married. That’s my wife’s job, pointing out my failures.