Considering this also. Currently we’re all on my google one plan, however I want to move away.

Any tips?

It obfuscates the user each time you use it and doesn’t log any info?

So while the query is maybe logged on chatgpts side for their own usage. Hopefully they shouldn’t be able to build a profile against you.

It wouldn’t be so bad if i could just launch the app and type a query…

Duck duck go have just launched an AI chatbot that acts as a middle man between the LLMs to try protect your privacy. duckduckgo.com/chat

Learn bangs!

95% of my searches, DDG is fine and I’ve learnt where it might struggle and I just end the search with !g

This then searches Google, yeah I’m still using Google for 5% of my searches but it’s better than 100%.

Or use !start to search startpage.

I’ve degoogled apart from:

• Google photos - I have shared storage with my family and I really can’t be doing with sorting out the mess when I cancel my 200GB subscription. I do however back all photos up to my server.
• Pixel phone - I try not use any Google apps/search but the phones are updated regularly and are reasonably good value for money. Other brands have the Google tracking with the OEM tracking on top.

Does some of the payouts need normalising? Some of the bigger content creators make absolutely bank for hardly doing anything with little overheads.

Does it? It’s a fantastic service that works really well, whether it’s worth the price or privacy is a slightly different conversation

Yeah but that’s slower and not using the sites specific search

I’ve started using Duckduckgo, less specifically for the search and more for the bangs. Fed up of search surfacing sites they care about. I can now quickly search wikipedia with !w etc.

I switched my parents group chat to RCS from whatsapp after pestering them for ages.

Over the span of 2 months we had 4-5 inconsistencies where I would recieve a message from my mum or dad in the group that would be in another language or clearly not be written by them. It wouldn’t show up on her phone but my brother and dad would see it.

Here’s the proof of the last occassion it happened. They’re never going to switch now…

Even if you selfhost, having a cloud provider can still be a good option to maintain 3-2-1 without hosting a second server offsite (at parents or friends etc).

I backup to backblaze b2

It’s a jpeg

Then encoded in the metadata is a map of brightness.

If your website/app/phone doesn’t support it, the metadata just sits there with info about the lens, shutter speed etc.

If it does support it, the JPEG is automatically processed with the metadata to increase brightness in the original jpeg.

People need to stop “pretending” they can afford all this shit, it’s not needed and noone cares, who are people showing off too?

New iphone? Don’t need it

Maybe if we stop buying shit these companies will actually try

Yeah it’s insane. I bought a 1 year old Hyundai and knocked tons of depreciation off an already cheaper brand.

At my work people be driving around in leased Range Rovers/AMG Mercs. Then they will take the piss out of my car.

Seriously? I now have more disposable income because i’m not wasting it renting a car and also I own my car… It should be me bragging

🤑

Subscriptions need to fuck off. I made a stand a few months ago. I will not subscribe to anything at all unless i’m getting INSANE value.

Cancelled streaming, random apps, patreon etc. I now have usenet and backblaze b2 for about £3 a month each. Saving me a fortune 🏴‍☠️🦜

I have mint dual booted on my laptop with Win 11. I find myself using Win11 more.

Idk why, linux mint doesn’t feel finished to me:

• 120hz won’t work with my dock (works fine in ubuntu and w11)
• Touchpad scrolling is insanely quick and almost unusable
• My mouse jitters allover, accelleration or something seems wrong.
• Can’t seem to set different governors depending on battery or power.
• Fingerprint doesn’t have a driver (works in Ubuntu ok though).
• Scaling 125% seems janky, everything is blurry as shit

It does work mostly ok though and is quick, but it doesn’t feel polished. Ubuntu was great but fuck snap packages.

They released the rewrite as a beta apk at the weekend for testers. So it’s definitely going somewhere.

It’s faster and has conversations on the app too.

https://proton.me/support/mail-android-beta

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/16veha9/join_the_new_proton_mail_beta_on_android/

No.

I meant the article and writing the article as if apple are considering when it’s not even true.

“May” = some possible outcome written as the company are considering it.