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.
I deleted more apps from my mobile phone, that was problematic. I deleted several apps from my Windows computer. I found more alternatives to apps I need, on my Mint22 computer. I set up NextCloud, and it works perfectly on all units. I got 3 others to join me on my NextCloud. I am still OMW to fade out FB completely.
Other than that, I keep my units up to date.
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
same!
I recently switched from Google Photos to Ente.
Running ADGuard at home and being able to only use Linux privately
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.
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.
Went from dual-booting Linux Mint and Windows to completely removing Windows and switching to Arch.
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).
I stopped using Spotify last year, and recently dug my old ipod out of the drawer. Listening to music without an Internet connection and all the spyware is so liberating. If you have an ipod or other old mp3 player, try it out again!
Nice! I recently set up adguard home on my local network 😎 I’m also self hosting my own audio server with navidrome. Now I don’t have to deal with spotify :D
Take a look at Feishin and Tempo for android. 2 great music players that work well with navidrome.
Thank you so much. I have been looking for a good android client to go with navidrome. I tried symdfonium but the audio quality didn’t sound very good. I just tried Tempo and it works like a charm.
Tempo is beautiful. I was using it but was having some crashes so I switched to dsub2000. Not as pretty but functioned better for me. Tempo is a fantastic choice though.
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.
I can finally pin-point what gave away the latest game I played. I was playing 2077 and their launch client problaby sold the data about my steam account.
That’s dope! Can you give a brief overview of how you accomplish that ?
Well, I was only playing on my personal PC which has Linux. My steam has been setup not to sell personal information. I did not search the game anywhere (I was just starting). It’s just easier to see where things leaked when you take a privacy focus so if I notice a leak it’s problably on the new thing I had to boot up to play.
Oh I gotcha. I thought you had an app/device/software/etc that would help point out leaks.
as far as I know they’re selling those kind of services but they do seem to be bogus.
Been on GrapheneOS for a few weeks. Great daily driver. I feel like I have control of my phone. It constantly asks me what to share and how much.
It sort of reminds me of the granular control you get on Linux.
Been years since I flashed a new ROM but it was way easier than things had been. Literally a web installer. Love it!
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!
