Rikj000

Rikj000 , 21 days ago

Wayland might be the future,
but today we're still living in the present..

I was a fan, and tried Wayland,
but it took less then 24hrs before I switched back to X.

Just too many random bugs remain in Wayland rn..

E.g:

• Grayed out screen under HDR
• LookingGlass unable to boot in fullscreen
• Some program icons replaced with Wayland icon when running
• ...

Rikj000 , 21 days ago

= AI bubble

Rikj000 , 1 month ago

Never give up,
each eye you poke out is one less they can use for data collection.

It's a slow process and they'll grow more eyes,
but the less they have on you,
the more private you'll be.

Rikj000 , 1 month ago

You can ditch YouTube,
without actually ditching YouTube content,
through a privacy respecting alternative frontend:
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube

My favorite ones:

• Desktop: Invidious + Piped
• Android: Newpipe + Tubular

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

Hope these will help with opting out for data collection / informing yourself about it:

• https://privacy4cars.com/
• https://vehicleprivacyreport.com/
• https://optoutcode.com/
• https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/cars/

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

Wikiless?
The original project was taken down by Wikipedia, but this appears to be an active fork of it:
https://github.com/Metastem/wikiless

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

I mean same applies to the Chinese,
but wanting to look good in an oppressive system, does not mean you actually like to be oppressed by said system.

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

Why?

It has been my main distro for years now,
and I have only enjoyed the experience.

2 points you'll likely mention which do not make it a bad distro:

• The certificate of their website expired twice
• If you use AUR packages,
  sometimes you need to wait with an update since they hold back official repo packages for a few weeks to ensure stability, which AUR packages might depend on.

Stop the distro hate,
it divides the Linux community...
Instead we should unify against M$/iFruit,
and let people use whatever distro they like.

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

For me the experience has been:

• Stable
• Easy to use
• Enjoyed all the Arch niceness in the meantime.

Which imo makes it a good distro,
idiots would not make a good distro..

Sure the people behind it made some doubtful decisions in the past, but that doesn't change the fact that using it has been a bliss.

Additionally, it's all open source,
so if they would ever turn anti-consumer,
it can be forked into another distro.

As I mentioned earlier, stop the distro hate.
I'm not throwing acquisitions against other distros, instead I let people enjoy whatever flavor of Linux they desire...

By now I helped a fair amount of Arch and other distro users through Lemmy / AUR / Issues, and I also learned a fair amount of Arch / Manjaro and other distro users.

Linux is not the enemy here,
not a single flavor..

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

I went with Manjaro due to the way they do their package releases.

Arch is bleeding edge,
a double edged sword if you ask me,
all the latest versions,
and all the bugs that come along with them.

I'm looking for stability in my daily driver though.

Manjaro keeps releases a few weeks back on their stable branch.
And tests the releases first on their unstable and testing branches.
Resulting in near bleeding edge with enhanced stability on the stable branch.

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

Update your system frequently,
that minimizes the chance of things breaking in my experience.

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

Your comment is my reasoning why I use Manjaro :P

All the Arch niceness,
with fewer bugs / breakage
and easier to use.

Sure you might get an issue from outdated dependencies from AUR packages from time to time, but the chance / impact of those is usually rather small.

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

Dear politicians,
stop assaulting our rights,
and start fighting for our rights,
unless you'd like to be yeeted out of parliament.

With kind regards,
every aware citizen.

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

I write PHP on the daily and don't understand the hate it gets :/

At least I can work on Linux at home while my co-workers are stuck on Windows with their C#

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

Legacy software still requires maintenance.
Legacy dependencies still require to be used in new projects.
Dual booting multiple times a day is not feasible.

For those reasons none of my co-workers can fully switch to Linux.

Rikj000 , 2 months ago

Flatpak:
To limit shady proprietary software from accessing your full storage / hardware.
You can manage the sandbox access through tools like FlatSeal.

Snap:
To ruin your day / user experience.

Both where introduced as a universal way to distribute packages on various distros.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

RedLib, the continuation of LibReddit,
still works:
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

I use it in combination with this GreaseMonkey script,
to redirect me to a random RedLib instance:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469587-reddit-to-libreddit-redirect

Due to instances often going down and/or stop working.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

This is not a fair comparison.

Instead you should compare Chrome with FireFox.
And Brave (privacy focused Chrome fork)
with LibreWolf (privacy focused FireFox fork).

I'll stick with LibreWolf,
no way I'll drive anything Chromium based as my main browser.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

Enuf with the Arch hate already..

Fedora and Debian are cool,
but Arch is too,
their Wiki is amazing and so is the AUR.

And no I don't use Arch btw,
I use Manjaro,
which has suited me fine for years now.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

If working with the AUR,
you can alter the PKGBUILD and other build files on your own behalf.

To either fix what's wrong,
or to roll back to a previous version of the package.

I've did both a few times already,
however I'm on Manjaro.
Pamac, their graphical installer,
prompts me if I'd like to edit the build files before starting the build/install process, unsure how to do it in Arch, but the ArchWiki should be able to tell you.

Also, if you'd fix what's wrong,
please post your diff on the AUR package thread, that can save the maintainer some work / help with rolling an updated package out to the other users faster.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

You can try rolling back to a previous version though.

By checking the log section in the AUR,
you can see all the commits (changes) done to the build files.
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=util-linux-selinux

Clicking on a commit message shows you the diff.

Start by the last commit,
undo the changes (green lines),
re-apply the removals (red lines),
then attempt to re-build.

If that did not work out,
do the same for the commit before that until you rolled back up to the latest working version.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

Figure out which politicians are behind this.
And throw them out,
since they are trying to take away your rights (to privacy).

They are looking to apply mass surveillance upon you guys wrapped into a "For the kids safety" package as usual..

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

Hope my and other instances will de-federate from Threads/Meta.

We don't need that spyware giant in the fediverse..

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

Thank you for sharing that link.
And man happy to be on tchncs lately! :D

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

You can try to convince the Discord server moderators to bridge their servers to Matrix with something like T2Bot:
https://t2bot.io/discord/

That's what I did when I was running a Discord server,
worked nicely in both directions.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

In my experience,
AMD is a bliss on Linux,
while Nvidia is a headache.

Also, AMD has ROCM,
it's their equivalent of Nvidia's CUDA.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

Even not the "issue" that basically every time you update something, you have to wait a long time to download proprietary nvidia drivers?

That's what annoyed me the most back in the day with the Nvidia drivers,
so many hours wasted on updating the drivers.

With AMD, this is not the case.

And haven't even talked about my issues with Optimus (Intel on-board graphics + Nvidia GPU) yet, which was a true nightmare, took me weeks of research to finally make it work correctly.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

It automatically happened,
I believe with every install of an updated Flatpak, which is rather often.

Been a while though, since lately I've been happily using AMD for quite some time.

But I do recall Nvidia driver updates slowing down my update process by a lot,
while I have none of that with AMD.

Rikj000 , 3 months ago

I want HP to shove it where the sun don't shine :)

Rikj000 , 4 months ago

I hate that nowadays everything comes with pre-installed spyware and that they charge you for it makes it even worse..

• Want a TV? Suck on our Android TV with Google spyware embedded
• Want a phone? Get our Android with Google spyware, or go for an Apple with Apple spyware
• Want a computer? We'll shove Windows spyware down your throat

Ffs I just want devices that I own to not spy on me, and I can't even buy them anymore..

Each of them require flashing a custom privacy respecting OS onto it,
and that's a real problem..

Rikj000 , 4 months ago

I'm a developer, modder and privacy advocate, I know how to put a custom OS on my hardware, but I'm a minority.

However the average joe does not,
and they, the majority,
are forced into using spyware.

Often without them even knowing so,
which is a true issue

Rikj000 , 4 months ago

Educate yourself fruity,
Apple does spy on you

Rikj000 , 4 months ago

I do own my devices.

Companies want you to not own the devices, and rent them through a subscription model,
however I refuse to do that.

If you do that / fall for that,
then you're part of the problem making such a future a reality..

Rikj000 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Here are a few examples, but if you do some research like I told you to, you'll stumble upon many more:

• Apple ignored/ignores disabling of "Share iPhone Analytics":
  https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-privacy-dsid-analytics-personal-data-test-1849807619
• Apple started scanning your local files even if you do not use iCloud / Apple services:
  https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-now/
• Apple (allegedly) left in a backdoor to iPhones (likely on purpose and in cooperation with government officials):
  https://www.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/2023_kaspersky-discloses-iphone-hardware-feature-vital-in-operation-triangulation-case

Rikj000 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

What are your sources for debunking mine?
Besides you just not liking to face the truth?

Blanket surveillance is not clickbait,
it's spyware, and a problem.

But sure continue to stick your head in the sand,
that will surely help humanity beat this problem.

Rikj000 , 4 months ago

Lol, I'm done discussing with you fruity.

You're blatantly ignoring / laughing away evidence to protect the image of a bad, but for some reason, you're favorite spyware slinging company.

And on top of it,
now also bashing the privacy and linux communities since you can't make valid debunkments :P

Instead of bashing,
to suck up to that spying company,
perhaps you should try defending your rights to privacy for a change.

You may rant in the void now,
I won't waste time on your fanboy nonsense anymore.

Rikj000 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Sign-up still requires a phone number.. -.-"

Checkout Matrix/Element or Session,
there you can actually enjoy privacy by signing-up without a phone number/email:

• https://matrix.org/
• https://element.io/
• https://getsession.org/

Edit: Due to Session's company residing in Australia,
which appareantly has bad privacy laws,
i don't feel comfortable with recommending it anymore

Rikj000 , 4 months ago

Wasn't aware of that, would love to hear about it if someome could shine some more light onto the matter :)

If that's the case, I have to stop using/recommending Session

Rikj000 , 4 months ago

I never heard about Threema before,
quickly glanced at it's Github repo,
but I think I prefer Matrix/Element over it.

Threema seems to largely rely om GMS (Google Messaging Service),
meaning that most messages will go through Google's servers,
albeit end-to-end encrypted for now,
I would not be suprised if Google would participate in "Harvest now, Decrypt later".

Rikj000 , 4 months ago

🤢🤮

Rikj000 , 5 months ago

Hurt the spy-ware giant,
by using Invidious.

Free leeches their bandwidth,
without the spy-ware and ads!

https://invidious.io/

Rikj000 , 5 months ago

Paying for spy-ware,
how dense do they think we are?!

Let Google rot :)

Rikj000 , 5 months ago

Yes,

But the software on it has been completely re-done to enhance it's privacy and functionality.

I'm running LineageOSforMicroG,
with Magisk/LSPosed,
to run things like AdAway/XPrivacyLua/Blocker.

Additionally I replace everything I can with FOSS from F-Droid,
and scan all apps from Aurora (Play Store) with ClassyShark3xodus, against well known trackers, to either look for better alternatives, or to block the spy-ware in them with Blocker.

Further, a premium no-log VPN, which has been vetted (servers confiscated in the past, though 0 logs retrieved), configured as always-on + block connections without.

Rikj000 , 5 months ago

I don't expect that average users will become android/privacy experts.

I don't even think of my own privacy being all that important.

However systematic privacy,
through laws that protect us all,
that's what the average joe should be made aware off and stand up for.