I got bored when I was in early college. I already held leftest views and didn’t love a lot of what Google and other big tech platforms where doing. I started with Proton but honestly mainly due to there lack of even decent Linux support changed over to Tuta. I feel lucky that I did all of this about a year and a half ago so just before they shoved AI in everything.

I also hate that there is never an option to opt out of this service either.

Not collect data that can identify people. Yes you have to operate within the law BUT you can avoid collecting data that identifies people. Also you can explain what data you collect and not pretend to be perfect.

This is why I really wish the “control servers” were selfhostable on the open web. Kind of similar to how you can self host a relay node for Rustdesk.

I’ve wondered if you could even if it was slowly build up a database of traffic infromation and have it be an opt in feature. Like I know in general in my city when things get busiser so I know when to avoid certain parts.

I personally use Mullvad and find it to be great with there view on privacy and sense I can create a new “account” anytime I want.

I use Tuta but it’s what convinced me to buy a domain. So if/when I switch providers the majority of contects will not notice.

This makes me so happy I’m using Graphine OS. Also the entire idea that there “not storing my history” I don’t trust them. They have already been sued multiple times over keeping ingogneto data.

I think it’s mainly two things:

• people fear reverse phone numbers look up tools more then the equivalent tools for social media.
• It’s viewed as less replaceable then just blocking somone on social media

I don’t really agree with either of these but it is what seems to be common.

I can’t tell you if you should or not. I can tell you I DO NOT have it enabled and mapping service work just fine. Also I would recommend using something like CoMaps and not Google Maps.

First everyone always does. Second there is always a chance you do want to hide with a regime change.

As long as it’s implicit right and is a reasonable price I 100% will be getting it. I am willing to pay someone else to securly hold my (e2ee) data.

My advice if you want something with changing some habits that is pretty good Graphine OS would be a good option. I’ve been running for close to 3 months at this point I think. If you run the right apps it can be decently private and isn’t a huge inconvenience.

It’s really down to how much time you have and how inconvenientced you want to be. Generally the more secure something is the less convenient it can be. I find Graphine with FOSS apps and other secure services to fit what I want and need.

I love your guys work and fully support it. I think libre software is the only way foward if we don’t want worse and worse platforms.

Question: Do you think Peertube will likely ever have a the diversity of content that YouTube has or with different motives for making content it may never reach that scale?

You seem to have all the same reasoning I did. It is nice to hear someone else confirm it. Also when I need to I still plan on using @tuta.com for things I want more privacy on.

I totally get the anger with Netflix. I fucking hate them as a filmmaker. But I really don’t think a long term solution is pirating content.

BUY CONTENT YOU LIKE

Is it more expensive? Of course it is, that’s part of an equitable society. Also it means you end up with content you really like and not a bunch of junk.

I also don’t trust Microsoft to keep it turned off. Even if it is truly off (really hard to tell) what’s to say it doesn’t turn back on in an update. I want an OS I can trust.

It’s a great example of why I push for the use of technologies where I don’t have to trust companies to play nice with my data. If I use (correctly implemented) end to end encryption then you physically can’t access my data.

Would you recommend an AMD or Intel?