I like the Frank the Giant Bunny logo!!

Try Simplex on Yunohost. I mean, it’s about as clean/quick as can be iirc. Simplex has the lead in security, but I recall the app stating they couldn’t keep servers funded and are shutting down. So you might need to run your own to be on the safe side.

Signal had privacy problems?? Maybe using Google play notifications? I download the apk to be Google free, works on my lineage OS just fine without micro g.

XMPP, if you’re all within the same ecosystem vs SMS or RCS chat (which only carriers services support), it’ll use OMEMO encryption and is e2e encryption. I host my own instance to have a little extra control. And that’s on top of everything else secure about it. Anyway, I believe you can enable traffic over Tor for XMPP, but I do not have that bc it breaks voice calls.

SimpleX is going away I thought. Any reason you don’t want to use Signal, or setup XMPP/Jabber/Snikket/Prosody, etc.

Right, OK, it’s not very common so I wasnt sure its context

Why does this start with Meta? What does Meta have to do with it?

IP is fine, they just didn’t buy a domain to point to it.

I’d maybe feel better if there was some sort of repo to show the code.

I personally despise everything moving to browser based, and I intentionally steer everyone in my org to Outlook Classic as well as physical apps where it makes sense. This is all going the way of, “You will own nothing and be happy”.

Like people who don’t want to give up on hard cover books (my wife), there’s something about having the physical copy that feels good. Even though software isn’t physical, I’m more so talking locally installed and perpetually licensed or, better yet, FOSS.

Amen brother idk why you’re down voted!! Good to know it’s a shit company right away.

I don’t get it, how tf they gonna stop you on phones that already exist?

A. You can disable any new OS or device updates from Google.

B. You can keep your existing phone on Android 16 or prior (hell, I’m on 12)

C. Use alt OS like Graphene, Lineage, Iodé, /e/OS, CalyxOS (they’re back!!), etc

D. Sign out of Google on your phone, install F-Droid or something from APK package on FF derived browser.

I’m sure on brands new devices with that patch, plus anyone who doesn’t disable the auto updates will be blocked. But no way no how can Google stop us all!! 🖕🖕🏻🖕🏿🖕🏼

Maybe they should spend a little time and money hiring people to vet developers instead of this bullshit. It’s about control, not safety. Everything is going app-based, and they want data tracking, so if people side step their means of hoarding data, they’re upset and going to block this ability.

Think about it: those who sideload are typically the power users who know what they’re installing in the first place. The fact they’re talking about cracking down on app stores and devs is shit. Vet the code and look at what the app is doing with users’ data. Idk, but is a not great solution.

Honestly, they can’t afford to. They fucked up in 2012/2013 with the One and have been playing catch up ever since.

You’d THINK this would be used as an opportunity to leapfrog the competition, but I doubt it.

Now watch everyone flee back to Xbox or Nintendo.

It’s truly enshittification at its finest. They think they’ve got all these gamers locked into the ecosystem bc PC building/gaming is pricing people out, Steam box will be over $1000, Xbox is fucking up stuff and cutting back, so it’s a race to fuck stuff up but just slightly less than the competition so they have a “competitive edge”.

So… Looks worse than a PS5 or XSX for several hundred more even after this console prices went up… I’m all for this PC hybrid, esp to compete in the market, but not at this price…

Anyone saying “it’s not bad” is already trying to justify the cost lmao! I built a PC a couple years ago with far better specs (i7-13700K w 64GB RAM & Arc A750, so anyone buying now is either desperate or uninformed. Sure the costs have risen by that’s no reason to cave and waste your money.

Can confirm. For years, my pt night job was working a video store for the free rentals to “make recommendations” to customers. I didn’t have time to watch them all, so I’d rip to watch later, then used certain sites to share. I usually made direct 1:1 copies bc my PC wasn’t well equipped to remix or transcode. Thankfully, I had a school nearby that would offer free used equipment instead of paying for disposal, so I often had extra computers in doing the work on my broadband connection 😅 (I think 1.5-3Mbs).

I did often burn to DVDs as a backup bc external HDDs were expensive and discs were cheap. I did this for years, often releasing online the Friday or Saturday before DVD releases Tuesdays. If only Plex existed back then haha.

Some drives are older. My 8TBs are 2019 enterprise SAS and are meant to be on all day. They don’t get much workout cuz once full they’re not doing a ton of writing. So they’ll last. Lady year picked up several 16TBs before the price jumped. Thankful I pay attention and jumped on it when I did!

I’ve ripped all ~2.5kDVDs, ~1.2k BD, and ~600 4K BD (plus several dozen 3D) I keep pretty high quality copies, strip multi lang or auto tracks and stick to higher DTS or Dolby, strip subtitles, etc.

Crazily, I keep a 2nd “older” 7700K for playing the DVD and BD content for friends and family, I do the better stuff for me and a couple friends who actually care about quality. Now I need to add JF alongside Plex and Emby just bc.

Heck yeah!! Good to know as I have nearing 100TB of storage 😅. Would be nice to shave that down a little!

Do they plan on moving Unifi OS beyond just network? Because we run Access, Protect, Connect and InnerSpace, too… Would be nice to have a PC setup as a controller for the cost of their Dream Machine Pro Max etc.

ZimaOS was a love/hate relationship for me. I setup a i7-7700K, 32GB DDR4, dualc10Gb SFP+, 24-bay SAS with x2 LSI 9300-16i raid cards… Technically that’s only 12 PCIe lanes (8 for x2 cards and 4 for NVMe’s) but ZimaOS, even after paying for the premium upgrade (< 4 drives supported), couldn’t handle large quantity disks with large capacity… I had 10x 8TB drives and 8x 16TB drives, each in raid5 with a hot spare, and Zima would constantly become unresponsive with <50TB of data.

Idk if it was a power issue (850w PSU), raid card, or the OS, but I found myself struggling to keep it usable. I had attempted the arrs stacks but ran into issues. Idk if it was corrupted eventually, but I went back to my old server shell until I can resolve it and make it stable. Lemme tell you, moving 50TB+ across 2x 1GbE is excruciatingly slow… I was so thrilled to be on 10Gb for the short time 😢

Yeah that’s going to be the minimum I suspect. Camera for pictures, mic for video, storage for saving those captures and recordings. The actual Google camera app I think requested contacts, read contents in storage, a whole lot of stuff not needed.

Just a FOSS cam app so you know permissions are limited or eliminated.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.iakmds.librecamera

I’ve noticed search results getting WAY WAY worse to make AI summaries and other AI appear to be smarter in comparison. You can’t fool me, I’ve been around long enough and watched peak web usefulness decline for almost 15 years now.

I would bet peak internet was 2012, before Facebook acquired Instagram, Snapchat was brand new, and Twitter bought Vine. Ever since, Zuck has been in a data hoarding rampage to make sure Meta “is the best” whatever that means, and data mining progressively got so much worse to today’s levels. Windows 7 was the top, so the OS wasn’t enshittified or crammed with ai code, and Xbox live was still affordable. The biggest threat to home privacy was the Kinect.