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I got a pob that gives you a street address and migrated most of my online addresses to it. The car insurance and a couple other entities needed my home address but now leaks or doxxing should mostly be ineffective.
Out of curiosity, how much are you paying for it? I’m looking to get one in my country and I’m curious to know how cheap/expensive they are compared to other countries.
P.s: please feel free to not answer if you don’t want to disclose it.
$20/month billed in 3 month increments for the smallest 3"x5.5" box. I don’t intend to get mail there and I would just use a made up address except every once in a while these services like the bank send a legal letter or there’s a recall notice. They will scan your mail and email you when you have something to pick up and it’s only half a mile away so not too bad.
Being trans and seeing the country grow increasingly hostile makes the cost worth it to me; my only lament is that the government still knows where I live.
starting to change my real proton email on accounts to aliases i made with unbox.at an addy instance hosted by adminforge.de
Moving more and more of my activities offline, back to analog even.
Almost completed my migration from windows 10 to linux in my desktop (only missing the storage disks to be transferred to an external drive so I can format them in ext4. I’ll do it this weekend and my house will be officially free of Microsoft’s grip.
Congrats! I did the same, just moving away from macOS instead of Windows, a few years ago and never regretted it.
I got the door to my room back after quitting my career as a camgirl
Did a stalker lead you to quit or something?
I’m not sure I’d call it a “win” necessarily. After seeing it mentioned in a thread a couple weeks ago I switched from Gboard to FUTO Keyboard. Except I friggin hate it, it’s swipe typing is SOOO bad. Everything takes ten times longer now because i have to go back and fix every other word multiple times. Win for my privacy, loss for my ability to type things, I guess. If anyone has another swipe capable keyboard that respects privacy, I’m open to suggestions.
Is Florisboard still around?
Looks like the latest release was 5 months ago. I’ll check it out, thanks!
Awesome! Let me know how it works for you!
So I tried it but have since uninstalled and unfortunately gone back to Gboard for now. It was fine for what it was, but it doesn’t support swipe (or “glide typing,” as they called it) which is a dealbreaker for be. It is mentioned in the settings page, it reads to me like it was there before and they took it out and plan to reimplement it later (v0.7+, according to the roadmap on GitHub). So I’ll keep this in mind for the future and hope to come back to it when they’ve added it back in.
Aw, that’s a shame. My version from FDroid (or one of its repositories) still has swiping. I’m not sure if I have the latest one or not.
I want to love FUTO keyboard but the swiping is SO bad. I gave up on it after a few weeks. Thought my thumb would learn but it was just too much.
Want to give it some time to ripen on the vine and hopefully improve in that area. Sad to hear it hasn’t changed since I put it down (probably around last August)
A radically different keyboard is thumb-key, available on F-Droid.
https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.dessalines.thumbkey
I couldn’t stick with it long enough to develop the muscle memory but I see how it can be super good if you get quick with it. It’s VERY different. Designed specifically for thumb only typing, throws out QWERTY layout entirely, which was designed for two hands with 10 fingers to use effectively and has been ported over to a different device only due to familiarity amongst users, not because QWERTY is actually GOOD for devices that you text with one or two thumbs.
I encourage people to check it out. Privacy focused, designed for a single thumb and doesn’t rely on complex evaluation of swipe pattern recognition in order to be efficient. But you have to really force yourself to use it and I just didn’t have the discipline to beat the learning curve.
Interesting. Definitely different. Is that the same Dessalines who built Lemmy?
checked the github and yep same dessalines
No idea about the creator.
Started using NextDNS to block ads and other internet cancer on all mobile devices in my household. Best 20 € deal ever.
Have you considered AdGuard Public DNS? What made you choose NextDNS over it?
Gotta admit, I didn’t do a thorough comparison. I have no idea if the other serves are better. However, this one was recommended by a bunch of videos I watched…
However, I did test it on two devices for a few months, and realized I need more capacity. I was happy with the filters, logging and other features, so I figured it’s fair to charge for all of this.
It’s basically like having a pihole, but someone else takes care of hosting, admin work, updates, hardware maintenance, software troubleshooting, mobile client development and all that. Sure, admin stuff can be fun when it’s a hobby, but I felt like I get plenty enough admin work. That itch gets sufficiently scratched as it is, so paying for someone else to take care of it is fine.
U did yourself a good favour there. I’ve tried all the different DNS options out there and I always come back to NextDNS for its convince! You also have a lot more control with nextdns than Adguards public DNS.
Starting to use my mailbox.org more and more. It will take a while to get off the other one, but one step at a time
Got myself NAS and a miniPC to replace Google Photos, could storage, netflix, TV internet connectivity and other small things.
Immich, Jellyfin, Nexcloud and Vaultwarden are my favorites.
Converted another 4 close friends over to using Signal. I am this 🤏 close to finally getting rod of WhatsApp which is the one of the last thorns in my privacy life. Next after that is replacing Android TV bound to a dummy google account to using Linux instead.
After years fully Microsoft free, I’m now fully Google free too
Switched off Gmail finally. Yay!
I’m deep in Microsoft (used to work there). I just kicked Office off my system and installed LibreOffice.
Next step is OneDrive, but it’s going to be hard to walk away from due to the amount of storage I have grandfathered in for free.
Replaced my ISP provided router that only allows the provider DNS or Google DNS with a router that works with any dot/doh and I can set my own DNS.
Signed up and started using tutamail awhile ago. I used to have my actual name as my email user but decided against it now.
I also started “digital privacy detox” a year ago and have made significant progress:
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I decided to figure out all the accounts I made before I started using password manager and added them to my password manager
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I went through them, logged in / sent an email and terminated my accounts. This has taken me a year not because I had so many accounts everywhere, but because certain platforms are so fucking difficult with this (the only one I have not been able to get deleted although I’ve said this is a GDPR violation is Roblox. The account is almost 20 years old and has had no activity but they refuse. I currently am trying to figure out how to tip them off to an organization like NOYB)
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change info on accounts that I do plan to keep by removing personal info and switching to my new email. This is also not as easy always as I had hoped: e.g. Twitch (which I use super rarely but I do use it sometimes) for some reason doesn’t allow a tutamail email…
Extra: I bumped into a shady “professionals for recruiters” website that had scraped all of my data from linkedin. This info is public and I never put much personal info on my linkedin, but I got creeped out by seeing my picture on this website I never put it on. I removed my real profile pic from every platform where it was after that.
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