abuttifulpigeon

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[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Thank you for the suggestions, I will be sure to check them out.

Also, my intention was not to be hostile. I made that comment out of the facts the other comments that were made at that time presented, in which were saying the pros of FOSS, and Zello should not be trusted because of it's closed-source nature. Somewhere in there my tone must have gotten misinterpreted.

Again, I apologize to anyone who read my comments as an act of hostility, as that was not my intention.

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Oh, apologies for the misunderstanding.

 

I understand that Zello is not FOSS, but their website claims everything is end-to-end-encrypted.

So, in short, should/can it be trusted? If not, are there any good FOSS alternatives that provide similar Walkie-Talkie like functionality?

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is XFCE still an option for install? I prefer it if I ever go back.

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Essentially, yes!

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying it is likely, I'm just saying it's a possibility.

Also, Amazon and Google are still, well, Amazon and Google, so the more i can get my personal website out of their mitts the better.

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Email, Calendar, Cloud storage, and VPN all Free* and Open Source.

*Free as in Freedom. While they do have free priced tiers, you do have to pay for more storage, more VPN servers, etc. Free still worth it IMO.

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Email, Calendar, Cloud storage, and VPN all Free* and Open Source.

*Free as in Freedom. While they do have free priced tiers, you do have to pay for more storage, more VPN servers, etc. Free still worth it IMO.

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then all they would say is "Welp, guess we're not texting then" . this goes for basically everyone I know except tech-geek friends.

 

So, this might seem like a stupid question on face value, but I'll go further in detail.

Everyone talks about getting a personal website so you can freely express yourself without getting beaten up by typical Social Media companies. While I fully agree with that, there are a few issues I have thought of:

Firstly, (assuming self-hosting isnt an option) won't you have to use google or AWS to host your website? And if you post something "they don't like", nothing is stopping them from just ban-hammering your website.

Secondly, even if you get a stable host, getting a domain is a completely different issue with the same causes; they could just revoke your domain if, again, you say something "they don't like".

With all that being said, would anyone have any remedies for these issues? Are there any privacy/free-speech respecting web hosts and domain suppliers?

Thank you for your responses! :D

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Not a Brit, but still recommend following these. My only problem is involving Signal, as hard as I try I cant get my family to switch from exclusively SMS. Any tips?

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yes, I confused mull and mullvad, I'm an idiot, ignore me lol

[–] abuttifulpigeon@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That is most certainly the disconnect.

I apologize, I am an idiot. I thought "mull" was short for mullvad.

 

School is starting up soon, and I want to install a stable distro to a 64GB flash drive that i own will remain stable while booting onto at least 2 computers (my home PC for maintenance and my School laptop for, well school).

I was thinking of just using Debian, but wasn’t sure if it would work well in terms of compatibility with my requirements.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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