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eleitl

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    How mouse-less can you make Linux?

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  • Way back when we didn't have X we just lived in the CLI console, text mode, no bitmap buffer. Then, when X came up you used the rodent to point at xterm windows. If you're used to OS X, wait, MacOS, you're going to try recreating equivalent functionality on Linux, which seems a lot of work. Have you looked into adding a trackpad?

  • The Google Pixel 7 and other older Pixels will now get two extra years of updates | TechRadar

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  • That seems like a safe bet.

  • The EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agenda

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  • Thanks. It's slightly worse than I thought. I'm kinda limited to communication with my small peer group, so I don't notice that other user classes exist.

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  • I'm mostly an open source/libre software user (this LineageOS tablet I'm using right now is entirely Google-free) so as long as AOSP upstream is available I should be fine.

    I still pay for and use some Google services for the sake of convenience but I could self-host them in principle. Or cease consuming them altogether. Same applies for some proprietary apps.

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  • Many people run Tor nodes. I also used to run exits until dealing with complaints became onerous, then I ran middlemen for many years. In general one should only pipe encrypted traffic through Tor, and be it just for malicious exits which sniff and tamper with your traffic. There are use cases for using Tor together with a VPN tunnel, but these need careful consideration.

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  • Or you could just use Tor.

  • No one is safe from Pegasus: spyware detected on ordinary people’s phones

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  • Thanks, interesting. I have used boot attestation but not yet Auditor. Hope to have some quality time reading up on the documentation in the coming three weeks.

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  • I carry them in the side pockets of military-style fatigues. The problem with small screens is legibility and being able to precisely hit a glass tty key with my thumb. I can comfortably use a 6.7" device in one hand. The Nexus 7 had considerable bezels if I recall correctly and was relatvely bulky. A thin bezelless 7" phablet should be manageable, I think.

  • Chatcontrol back on track... Poland and Germany may switch to a yes!

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  • They are quite simply corrupt. It doesn't matter what they privately think. Corruption includes personal immunity, as long as you toe the line.

  • No one is safe from Pegasus: spyware detected on ordinary people’s phones

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  • I haven't checked, does GrapheneOS do reproducible/deterministic builds so that you could verify that the published release matches your image? The boot attestation should not be able to be circumvented, if you trust Google hardware to do what it says on the tin.

  • The EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agenda

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  • Well, yes, but privacy in the current world is not free, even if it involves some own thought and planning. Being wary of defaults and being aware of implications one's choices bring is of course too inconvenient for many. But these do not get to complain.

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  • The 7 a is 6.3" while I came from a 6.7" device which I found still too small. 7" sounds about right for a pocket device, 13" good for a tablet. Haven't tried a 15", that one will be probably a bit on the heavy side.

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  • Poor people (who still can afford the end devices and an Internet plan) can of course share the costs in a community, or use one of the many free servers, as long as they are aware of the tradeoffs. Beigers not being choosers, and all that.

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  • It's a federated communication protocol and open source implementation thereof, including servers and clients.

    https://matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/matrix-for-im/

    What is it?

    Matrix works a little like email, but instantaneous and secure:

    You need to register an account at a provider Whatever your provider is, you can talk to people using other providers In the same way you can use Outlook or Thunderbird with the same email account, you can use different Matrix apps for the same Matrix account. Several apps exist, but we're going to go with Element for the sake of simplicity, as it's among the most fully-featured Matrix apps on the market.

    Once you are more comfortable with the basics and if you want to use another app, head to the clients section of this website.

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  • Federated protocols are not centralized in principle. It might not scale to one user-one server (which probably even Lemmy can't handle) but if you're signing up for a central server, you're doing it wrong(tm). Don't do that. The nice thing about Matrix client is that it allows end to end encryption, including groups. So that greatly limits what Mallory can do in principle. As to servers being costly to run, given what documented Synapse requirements are, you're looking at less than 5 EUR/month for a single server. Which can be shared among several users, obviously. This is in the same range as costs for a monthly VPN.

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  • I have zero such contacts. For the moment, I tolerate Signal. When it falls I'll switch to self-hosted Matrix.

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  • Self hosting Matrix comes to mind. With deployment automation it's reasonably painless.

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  • Self-hosted Matrix is obviously unaffected.

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  • Thanks -- I don't believe in buying expensive hardware for a sacrificeable personal device. Which is why I lag model-wise, my new Pixel 7 a was 335 EUR which is borderline acceptable.