[-] greendog@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Sounds like pulling cash at a grocery store/gas station may bypass that serial number logging from traditional ATMs?

[-] greendog@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah, that's the vibe I've been getting from Proton lately too. Again, worked great as a springboard for me, but now I'm ready to look at longer-term solutions

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So I need some kind of cloud storage for work, however I want to move away from Google Drive (obviously). While I started my deGoogling journey by switching to Proton Unlimited, I am now looking to decentralize services from Proton, especially Proton Drive.

I have already tried the "put it on a hard drive and carry it around" route and unfortunately, it is just not working.

So the two Drive alternatives I have found are NextCloud and Filen. I would love to hear people's opinions on each (good and bad), and I am also open to any other suggestions.

[-] greendog@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

I second Lumo. I find it very good at compiling pretty good sources too.

[-] greendog@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

This happened near where I used to live and this totally tracks for how the workers are treated out here.

I worked for Amazon (a neighboring warehouse to this one, actually) for 2 weeks before I quit. They kept telling me that an 85-year-old grandma with arthritis wss beating my times and that I needed to pick up the pace. The floor manager also pulled me aside because I was 1 minute late coming back from break.

Came home with a tension headache and just never went back. This has been the ONLY time in my life that I felt justified not giving at least some kind of notice before quitting. The next shortest job I had was over a year and I tend to try to give employers more than 2 weeks if I liked the boss, and exactly 2 weeks if I didn't.

[-] greendog@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I love how every couple years, they'll do another surge of culling, but it's never enough. What a legacy.

[-] greendog@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I only heard about the Proton stuff a little while ago and was going to spend most of today researching it (and then all the alternatives if I do decide to switch).

But the reason I chose the Proton Suite to start out is because I feel it's rock solid for entry-level privacy switching. Now that I'm a bit deeper into the privacy world (I've had Proton for around a year and a half now as most of my dailys), I think having multiple different platforms would decrease the risk of a total takeover as whoever would get in would be just that app (Like only using Proton for the VPN and switching email to Tuta)

If you want to DM me, I'd love to talk more in-depth about the struggle of de-googling in this current world

[-] greendog@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, I'm really hoping I can last until we see if this Graphene/Motorola thing works out, but if I switch earlier, I was considering either a Pixel 9/10 with GrapheneOS or a Fairphone with /e/os.

[-] greendog@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, which is why I want to use this time to get familiar with what apps I can so when this one gives out, I can switch to a Fairphone or Librem 5

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Hi everyone! I'm still pretty new to the foss world and am actively working to de-google my life. I got a cheap used laptop and just installed Linux Mint so I can get some practice with Linux in general (raised as a Windows kid) and I have definitely appreciated the ease of Linux Mint, but I do plan to explore many other distros in the future as well.

I currently have the following:

Email: ProtonMail (and looking into Thunderbird and Tuta).

Messaging: Signal as my main, but I also have Molly that I am planning to migrate over once I can get my family on board.

Browser: Been heavily experimenting with this as I used to use the default browser (I have a Galaxy S23FE) and then switched to Firefox Focus while simultaneously checking out Brave (no, it's not still on my phone), however I am currently using IronFox as my main on my phone and LibreWolf as my main on my computers.

File storage: Proton Drive

Calendar: TimeTree (for friends/family) and Proton Calendar for personal.

VPN: Proton (I have the package deal) but have also been researching Mullvad as a possible future alternative.

Password Manager: Proton Pass (would be open to suggestions on others. I've heard BitWarden thrown around)

YouTube alternatives: Still playing around with LibreTube, FreeTube, and PeerTube, but I really like LibreTube's layout, just wish they'd pull the comments section too :/

Images/Videos: Also Proton Drive, but that's more of just a backup of them. Any suggestions in this area would be appreciated too!

I haven't had a chance to look heavily into it yet, but does anyone have any resources/knowledge on any banks that are foss-friendly? I'm in the US and there's plenty of laws around mandatory data, but if anyone knows of a bank that stops at that, I'd love to hear! I do eventually plan to go all-cash/pre-paid gift/credit cards, but a bank account seems necessary for now...

Anyways, please feel free to give me any and all suggestions! Thanks!

[-] greendog@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

And now comes the rest of the world...

[-] greendog@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

At this point, the weeding is needed

[-] greendog@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Just came to say definitely Tweety Bird

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