The recent duckduckgo ad campaign will surely help rescue googlers and so does my mission to ensure everyone I know doesn’t use google search.

I believe in the underlying message (use linux), but doesn’t practically every big company change their privacy policy or tos every 10 minutes.

I don’t trust any governmental body, probably for the best.

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I believe their license (GPLv3) doesn’t permit modifying the source code without releasing it to anyone who asks for it, but realistically, if it’s only code they have written, they won’t sue themself over it.

I’m no licensing expert, but that’s how I see it.

I didn’t mean to say that it’s (still) trash, I think it’s useable, but there are still a lot of improvements to come.

Element as a client seems to want to do everything, which is probably great for a lot of people, but it (in my experience) has led to a poor user experience (which with more time, will likely improve, they seem to have a lot of backing).

With Element completing voice/video implementation, I imagine it’ll be easier for other clients to reference their work when implementing their own support.

Once the other clients get voice support, I will definitely be trying them out again, I’m sure they will make a much simpler experience that works out the box.

The lost keys problem has luckily never happened to me, it usually boils down the user error I believe, but yeah, if it is a user error that happens often, they should figure out some way to fix that (probably a hard problem, which is sort of fixed (i believe) if you use the client on multiple devices, so if you get logged out of your account you can easily authorize your access from another logged in device, eg desktop/mobile).

I agree, I don’t think it’s trash. From my experience, chatting is very good, voice/video are just the next thing they are tackling.

Better UX will probably come after important features are done.

Just imagine the good they could have done by being a new competent Matrix client that can do everything, but instead they are a Discord clone.

Yeah, they kinda screwed up Element with combining mobile and desktop features into one app. The first time I tried creating a call on desktop, it was suddenly apparent how confusing they had made it, because you can do it in multiple ways (normal calls & conference calls).

There are other UIs that look very nice, but sadly don’t support voice chat. Hopefully these other clients can catch up, but it’ll likely take a while.

When you got unlimited money, you have a finger in everyone’s pie. An unfortunate reality.

Probably depends on where in the world you travel and if you travel long distance at all/often.

I have also never seen a touch screen on a bus or train, only one time on a plane a long time ago.

Either of us deliberately destroy data: locked up.

Company exec does the same: slap on the butt and a $2 fine.

We should all be on the same playing field!

Hosting on your own hardware is much more fun though! In most cases it’s safer too, you don’t really need to worry about much as long as you dont portforward your ssh port & don’t run programs as root.

I would say it’s cheaper as well, but that depends on how expensive the static ip lease is per month.

The internet is full of bots pounding at your machines to get in. It is only a matter of time until the breach Jellyfin.

If you are talking about brute force attacks for your password, then use a good password… and something like fail2ban to block ips that are spamming you.

This point doesn’t exactly match, but: public services like google auth don’t require users use vpns. They have a lot more money to keep stuff secure, but you may see my point… auth isn’t too trivial of a feature to keep secure nowadays. They implement similar protections, something to block spammers and make users have good passwords (if you dont use a good password, you are still vulnerable on any service).

Oh wow, I have never heard of such a thing. I hope those people are okay. I know if I stopped learning things i’d probably die from boredom, because all you can do at that point is repeat yourself.

That view definitely needs to change for the people who hold it.

the only thing I miss is the big preview window in the file manager

I may be misinterpreting you, but I think this is a thing with Dolphin. It has a preview pane, which supports all the file types I commonly interact with (F11), which can be dragged to resize bigger or smaller.

I haven’t used any preview thing on Windows, which is why I think I may be misunderstanding.

Anyways if you haven’t tried Dolphin, maybe it has a solution for you (made by kde project, but I believe it should be installable for any desktop environment).

https://apps.kde.org/dolphin/

Sadly I have to disagree. If I have an issue on Windows, I just can never find an answer because every result on my search is the microsoft forums, which of course never has any solutions that work.

On the other hand, specifically for arch, the arch forums always have the answer for me because there are actual smart people on there.

A side note, windows and their products always have terrible documentation, which can add to the frustration at times.

Yeah, wondering myself if this guys experience was also from a long time ago or maybe just an obscure device or something.

Sadly most people grow up using and are tought Windows from the first time they touch a computer so its quirks and workarounds of bugs are engrained in the users mind.

Uprooting their entire (current) knowlegebase is inconvenient… but it’s still for the greater good of their privacy and in my opinion effectiveness of whatever they do.

Personally I find that feature (including tabs in general) very helpful and is something i’d expect from a text editor in the 20th century.

Just my opinion. To each their own, but just wanted to share that it might also be many others’ opinion too.