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CoachDom

@ CoachDom @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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3 yr. ago

  • Linux rule. Here's my setup or "rice" as the savvy might call it. Not anything fancy but it does what I want it to.

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  • Do you have any good news for a person working in graphic design industry? Any sensible alternatives to Adobe CC/Affinity suite?

  • Is privacy still worth pursuing?

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  • I started my journey to degoogle myself very recently. I'm still to make the transition from Google stuff, but for now I treat it two fold.

    1. I treat it as a side hobby - I know it would be more convenient to just stay under the Google umbrella, but I'm interested in the state of FOSS and how far you can replicate gtools. I'm waiting for my Synology NAS drive and hopefully this will cover most of my needs.
    2. A personal statement/protest against greedy companies - I know that cutting access to some of my data (I'm not disillusioned - I know they still have a lot of my data and they will still have access to some) won't make a difference, but by switching from WhatsApp to Signal, I created a conversation among my friends and family. They became a bit more aware of the current situation. Same with switching from Reddit to Lemmy. The further I travel on my path, the more people around me are interested in their own privacy.

    So if you are realistic about it, as you are judging from your post, I would say it's worth - even if just as a middle finger to the big, privacy violating conglomerates. We shouldn't just roll over and give up our personal lives.

    Also, you will have full deniability of any future repercussions of people allowing big corpos doing with their data whatever they want.

  • What's a good way to prank your coworker?

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  • DON'T do what I've done a couple of weeks ago - landed me my first HR meeting ever :D

    I had to use my coworkers (lady around 50, not too clever with the computers) computer on remote desktop. As I was about to close it, I thought to myself "Perfect setup for a joke". On her computer, I went to https://pranx.com/hacker/ and put in on full screen. Literally like 30s later, our IT guy (he's in the same room as me) get a phone call and all I can hear is shouting in the earpiece. I say to him don't worry, I know what's this about, I'm going to sort it out. I went downstairs and boss's wife is running past shouting that we need to phone the police, I walk into the lady's room and she's hysteric. I say cool down, it's a joke.

    Safe to say, they were not laughing (probably the fact that I still was, wasn't helping my case :D)