Have you had any privacy wins recently? Anything you’ve tried or tweaked to improve your privacy? Anyone who’s listened to something you’ve said? Do you have any privacy enhancing projects or changes you’re working on implementing
I managed to convert someone to Signal this week. Was having reception difficulties with a phone call (both of us in spotty areas) and after a drop out, managed to get them on board with Signal. A very notable quality improvement in the call which helped reinforce to them it was a good idea.
I’m going to work on setting up Pihole over the weekend.
Note: I did steal this topic idea from Techlore.
My street is finally getting fiberoptic internet! That means I’m going from around 4MiB/s to at least 400 more likely 600 MiB/s… with around 3/4 of that in upload speed. I have already canceled all my streaming services and external servers, the parts for my homeserver are on their way.
No more Google Drive, hello Nextcloud, no more Spotify, hello Finamp, no more Netflix and Crunchyroll, hello Jellyfin, no more Bitwarden, hello Vaultwarden.
I’ll finally be able to self-host all my Docker containers fir my website-, email- and game-server, I can have a homeserver for my media-streaming even when I’m not at home. I might even create my own Immich and Lemmy Instances. Just need to read up on NixOS and get a good, reliable system running.
Fuck big Tech, I’ll host my own shit and offer it to all my friends.
Turning off Icloud completely and relying only on self hosted alternatives, like Immic,Baikal etc.
To give Apple some credit though, they do support 3rd party services pretty well( i.e Cal/Card Dav).
Gone back to paying for nearly everything in cash (good for budgeting I find too, can’t make impulse purchases if I only have enough money to buy what I came to the shops for). I also got a couple more friends to switch to Signal and make some other privacy-related changes. Slowly getting there
Got a secondhand Pixel phone and installed GrapheneOS. I love it.
Bro how did u write exactly what I wanted to say 😄 I bought a used pixel phone and installed GrapheneOS as well Also I got Mullvad VPN and a bunch of open source apps, its so fun! But the only problem I meet is that some apps are depends on google services a lot. My bank app for example. But I solve it by installing it for a second user And it will take some time to find good replacement for gboard and google translate combination
Duress password is priceless feature, right?
I somehow keep getting people interested in switching from Windows to Linux with a decently higher conversion rate compared to my friends; and it happened again today so I count that as a recent win.
Installed LMS (and got some of my former music streaming server to send me my listening data as
.csvvia GDPR request) and WireGuard this week.Also took the occasion to clean up and simplify my
nginxreverse proxy a bit, making the addition of a new service on my server easier.A lot Cause I only start worry about my privacy Now i got Graohene OS, Mullvad VPN and I’m about to set up Nextcloud on my vps to get read of Google drive Also I replace gmail, Google search, google translate and almost every google apps with FOSS alternative Its so fun to explore it
Nice, leaving Google is a lot of work but worth it, kudos!
Went from dual-booting Linux Mint and Windows to completely removing Windows and switching to Arch.
Every person who switches to Linux I see on Lemmy is a win
I started self-hosting! I got Nextcloud and Grocy set up! Jellyfin too, but I got some small issues to work out. Next up is, a workout application and home assistant. I’ll be transferring all my cams and stuff to HA. My whole family uses Signal, which is pretty cool. And I’m about to take the Graphene plunge, but I haven’t ROM hacked in years. I hear it’s super easy with Graphene, though.
Graphene is more than easy. It’s a browser based install with a USB cable. It’ll take some time to read through and execute the steps, but at the core its like 15 minutes of real work.
Put graphene on my phone and really like it.
Moved chat with my partner to signal.
Germany came out again against chat control.
Germany opposing chat controll is such good news. But we have to wait to see the true outcome.
A good thing was also that Germany officially said that “suspicionless surveillance must be taboo in states that have rule of law”. This indicates it’s a firm position and not a flimsy “maybe tomorrow…” position.
I’m using Graphene OS since a week. It is a blast! I can only recommend it!
For my girlfriend I set up e/OS on a Fairphone 5. Until now she is not really interested. But will see :D
My privacy win was also to migrate a small WhatsApp group to Signal!😎
You actually got a WhatsApp group to move??!!?!!?? That’s so hard! Congratulations.
Sold all my Apple devices, bought a second hand Pixel 8a and am running GrapheneOS on it. Bought a second hand Thinkpad T14 and am running Fedora on it. Subscribed for a year to Proton and activated VPN Killswitch on all my devices. Next up will be to learn how to selfhost Nextcloud, Syncthing and Immich. 😁
If you’re new to self-hosting I highly recommend you look at YUNOhost. All of those apps are available on it.
I too thank you for the recommendation.
Thank you very much! Will look into it :)
How did you get VPN Killswitch on Fedora? And SyncThing is great
Honestly, idk. I just turned it on, set it to advanced and it just works 🤷♂️
You must use the linux app then and not manual wireguard conf files
Ah yes! But for my raspberry pi with ubuntu server on it, I think I followed something like this https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-configurations
there is no tutorial for kill switch in manual confs on that website, i think you have to set it up with ufw
I’ve recently switched my music over to jellyfin, using various tools to get music from my Spotify playlists and curating them with beets. More recently than that, Immich went stable so I’ve got it running now in tandem with photoprism. I’d probably switch all the way from photoprism if Immich could read duplicates from the external library when uploaded by a user from an Android & if you could have some sort of android retention policy, like if a photo is older than 6 months and it exists on the server it can be deleted from the android.
Privacy wins…hmm well I’ve managed to block 1,824,754 trackers, ads, cookies, and assorted undesirable traffic from my network this month.
how did you get that number?
Combined number of blocks of all lists on my pFsense box. I am filtering quite heavily. You could do about the same thing with a PI-Hole Unbound.
Its recent in being a month old now, but:
- set up a dedicated server mini PC that really let me expand my self hosting beyond my Synology
- switched from Plex to Jellyfin (including for music)
- found out I can hard link files with my Arr’s setup so I can seed without having to keep duplicate copies of files, so that’s a win for the network. The privacy aspect is that I’m happy to get rid of data mining services I was using before my Arr’s setup.
- started using Immich for photos. So far so good
- Self hosted notes (Joplin)
- got remote desktop working on my home server, so if I’m at work and need to do a personal task, then I can do it on my own PC rather than the work browser.
- I use a chat app to make groups in which I’m the only participant. This is for sharing things across devices (links, files, notes, etc). Even on locked down work PCs I can open the web chat app and access my self-shared content. I used Telegram for this before. Now I’m self hosting an Element server.
- I’ve got syncthing running on my Retroid Pocket 5 + PC with Switch emulation. So Now I can ditch my Nintendo Switch completely and keep control of my save files. Fuck you Nintendo.
How do you hardlink your Arr files?
In sonarr/radarr you just select hardlinking instead of copy in the appropriate dropdown menu in settings and that’s it. Nothing else needs to be done if they share the same storage.
I learnt and set it all up a month ago. Don’t remember off the top of my head while on my phone while at work now. You should be able to find documentation online about setting it up in the Arr’s
