I think I need to read up on the fediverse a bit more. Technically it looks like anything in the fediverse at the moment is ActivityPub, even though it supports 3 more protocols. At this point, only Hubzilla uses something other than ActivityPub, even though it also makes use of AP. I was confused because Matrix is also an open protocol and also federated. I had figured everything federated could talk to each other underneath… That’d be the dream, right?
Hmm okay. I’ve logged into Element with my lemmy.world account though
I think Element does what you’re looking for. Get yourself a fediverse account, log in and watch it go. Difficulty, as ever, is getting your contacts to switch.
I’ve suggested password managers to loads of people who’d rather cling to updating their little pocketbooks where it’s impossible to distinguish between certain characters and password versions. The stubbornness of tech illiterates is stunning.
It’s the privacy vs convenience problem. For most people, the convenience is so much more important so when you can just use Google to sign in everywhere, you get rid of your passwords remembering issue (oh my god how many people have blamed me for losing their passwords, I’m an IT guy).
Companies want to maximise profits by ‘knowing’ (ie tracking) their customers so they can tailor their products or services to actual usage. A noble goal? They just want to be more convenient for us.
In the end I guess having an account anywhere and the companies seeing anonimised or aggregated, no personally identifiable records, should not be an issue. But they don’t need to keep track of where I live, what my e-mail adress or phone number is and especially need not now any third party stuff.
It has become a very untrustworthy business just because the companies could do whatever they wanted and now that there is more scrutiny, they just find back alley ways to screw us over.
Read up on Intel QSV. You essentially only need a recent cpu. i3 would do.
I hear good things about the Intel Arc A380. You basically only need it to convert video and the Intel is not too bad at that for not too steep a price
Who uses chrome anyway even there’s vivaldi
Oh I was unaware. Sorry!
Signal does sms but they may not be as privacy friendly as they claim. Although idk.
Love plexamp, hate the way plex forces album-centric metadata.
Netherlands has AVG and the AP to enforce it.
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