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Churbleyimyam OP ,

We got them using Session. My girlfriend and I currently use Jami for text/calls/files but I found that Session worked more reliably with my friend who uses an iphone, so we went with that. So far so good!

In case you don't already know, to make voice calls with Session you have to enable it in the settings. I also recommend changing the theme from the stock 'bio-hazard' one!

Churbleyimyam OP ,

Not sure, but I'm sure you could hire one on a barter basis. Offer to cook a few meals and change a few nappies.

Churbleyimyam OP ,

Oh dear. I'm sensing a deep backstory here...

Churbleyimyam OP ,

Haha. Yes, grandparents but also aunties and uncles and close friends. I've noticed that especially friends who have their own kids have been really keen. It's mostly been my girlfriend's female friends but my own two best friends (male) have been keen because they've been by my side in the journey and have been excited and wishing us well. For us it's not about spamming all of our contacts, just sharing with people who are close.

Churbleyimyam OP ,

Yes I think Session is in fact based on Signal but it has implemented some other technologies like a distributed network, as opposed to Signal's, which I believe is centralised. There's also some blockchain stuff involved, which I normally find a turnoff but I'm not an expert. Rob Braxman has a good review of it on YouTube and Odysee.

Churbleyimyam OP ,

Yeah they're amazing! They definitely come with some intense needs but I think the world would be a better place if we all spent more time around babies.

Churbleyimyam OP ,

That's OK, I understand that unfortunately it's only a matter of time until images of them end up somewhere I don't want want them, either through ignorance or a difference in values. That's the world we live in right now sadly. But hopefully I can delay and minimise it a bit, open a better channel of communication with a few friends and relatives and perhaps raise some awareness in the process.

I'm genuinely sorry to hear about your experience, especially with the pictures of them ending up on instagram. At least you were responsible as a parent and tried to do your best.

Its important to share and celebrate the birth of a child with your community. Yet another part of our lives that has been compromised by the degradation of our privacy unfortunately.

Churbleyimyam OP ,

We're using Session with friends and family because I think it works most reliably with people who use apple devices out of the box. We use Jami for each other because it's p2p (distributed) and endorsed by the FSF. I set up Jami on my mum's phone too. You can use your own push notification provider with it or simply let it run in the background if you want to run your phone without google or apple servers but still want instant notifications for messages and voice calls. Jami is the app I would most like to see succeed. I believe you can also use it on internal networks, which is a pro in terms of independence future-proofing

Churbleyimyam OP ,

Awesome, I was thinking about doing this on my VPS!

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

Churbleyimyam ,

Anyone tried out the Russian military's distro?

Churbleyimyam ,

Boom. Listen up NHS England.

Churbleyimyam ,

Writer and Calc look almost identical to ms word and excel on my Debian 12 system...
Congratulations by the way, you should be proud of your state!

Churbleyimyam ,

You are right. But what epic dunces.

Employer could pass the savings onto the staff with a payrise though.

"Staff who learn to use these new Linux applications will receive a bonus/payrise. Staff who do not will go to corner and wear the special hat"

Churbleyimyam ,

Yeah, check it out. I'm not a power user of spreadsheets, so I can't address what the previous commenter said about functionality but the UI looks good on mine and my girlfriend's systems. She's been using Calc to run her catering business for over a year without any complaints, so I would feel good about recommending it.

Churbleyimyam ,

Hey! I tried your keyboard out when I was setting up my new phone - very cool and innovative idea!

Churbleyimyam ,

I think you should stop using Instagram.

Churbleyimyam ,

Especially if you are a musician. Musicians need to boycott it. 99.9999% of musicians wouldn't even notice if they weren't on it but it would destroy Spotify.

Churbleyimyam ,

Bandcamp Fridays.

Churbleyimyam ,

I suspect that big artists are making so much from streaming that they're not concerned with direct to consumer. And that's fine because they are the easiest to torrent.

Bandcamp or whatever downloads website for small and torrent for big.

Churbleyimyam ,

People fighting on the internet.

Churbleyimyam ,

Fuckin titjob mate.

Churbleyimyam ,

I buy sometimes buy downloads on Qobuz but they also have a streaming subscription. I've been able to find most non-obscure music on their site.

Churbleyimyam ,

You can use the Newpipe app to listen to SoundCloud as well.

Churbleyimyam ,

I call on all small artists to boycott Spotify.

You will make no money on it but they depend on you for their business.

Do not perpetuate or support the continued impoverishment and humiliation of musicians and the degradation of artistic culture.

Churbleyimyam ,

Lol

Churbleyimyam ,

I actually quite like the idea of facebook becoming a few billion bots nattering away at each other on Meta's dime.

Churbleyimyam ,

"For fucks sake, I told you not to kill any civilians with those bombs!

...

Want some more bombs?"

Churbleyimyam ,

My boss encrypts nothing and leaves all of the machines switched on overnight, every night.

We got burgled once and someone made off with some postcards and £5 in loose change, overlooking access to a vast trove of customers highly exposing personal, financial, medical and legal documents that has never been purged for over a decade.

He didn't even change anything afterwards!

Churbleyimyam ,

Windows is like paying to rent a whole house only to move in and find lodgers already living in all of the rooms.

Churbleyimyam ,

Lol this is quality

Churbleyimyam ,

Why am I suddenly so fucking old?

Churbleyimyam ,

Reading this after my fifth day as a father to a newborn baby has brought my brain to a hard limit. I am going to sleep now.

Churbleyimyam ,

Why? Looks basically the same as photoshop, which everybody seems to love.

Churbleyimyam ,

Is this a joke? If someone can't correlate a square box full of tools with a rectangular box full of tools then I'm surprised they managed to turn their computer on.

Churbleyimyam ,

Lots of people who wanted to have photoshop for free salty about the menu layout being different in GIMP.

Churbleyimyam ,

I have to use windows at work, which is the absolute worst place for it. When I'm busy and trying to keep up with getting shit done it makes me really stressed out having get past all these popups, which always seem to happen at the worst possible moment.

It feels like I'm in Takeshi's Castle or something.

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/6a39ec23-bb71-4b22-8a80-e398d8916b98.webp

Churbleyimyam ,

Yeah. Someone needs to make a ublock origin zapper for the windows operating system. If I could do something like alt-click any object and make it instantly fuck off out of the computer I could get more work done and be more patient with my customers.

Ultimately my boss is paying microsoft for their bloatware once when he pays for his windows licence and again when I have to bat it away on the clock before I can do my work.

Churbleyimyam ,

Most popular dish in the UK is Tikka Massala.

But:

Fat, carbs and protein do not come purer than fish and chips.

Churbleyimyam ,

Beast of a comment. Found all of that really interesting 👍

Churbleyimyam ,

For me it has to be Fairphone. They are more expensive than the others to buy new but they are more aligned with openness and free software. They receive updates for a long time, are well supported by CalyxOS, /e/os, Linux mobile OSs etc, are repairable, you can carry extra batteries, usually have an SD card slot and two SIM slots and are more environmentally-friendly than others.

Churbleyimyam ,

lol

Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)

Data from two research firms and figures published by Musk and X suggest a deteriorating situation for X by some metrics. Musk has marketed it as the world’s “town square,” but in number of users it continues to lag far behind social media rivals that focus on video, such as Instagram and TikTok. ...

Churbleyimyam ,

LOOOOOOL

Churbleyimyam ,

Mozilla is one the most important tech entities in the world at the moment. Web browsers and email are currently people's bedrock interface with the internet and Firefox (and to a lesser extent Thunderbird) are the only such mainstream applications which remain outside the complete dominance of commodification.

We might disagree with some things that Mozilla have done but they are in the increasingly unique position of having to maintain integrity and accessibility in a constantly narrowing space. That's because we, as users, keep using them, keep supporting them and keep demanding the best of them.

Big up Mozilla!

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers After Backlash (www.nytimes.com)

The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars that...

Churbleyimyam ,

Would be way cooler if they couldn't collect it.

Churbleyimyam ,

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/21f1aae7-ac08-48a3-91a8-1d87d5b8ee76.webp

Churbleyimyam ,

I think this comment has the most downvotes I've ever seen on Lemmy...

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    Churbleyimyam ,

    True. It also helps you to hear how bad some recordings are, so don't throw your shit headphones away as soon as you have good ones!

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