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.
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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.
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.
Running ADGuard at home and being able to only use Linux privately
Privacy wins…hmm well I’ve managed to block 1,824,754 trackers, ads, cookies, and assorted undesirable traffic from my network this month.
I recently switched from Google Photos to Ente.
Sold all my Apple devices, bought a second hand Pixel 8a and am running GrapheneOS on it. Bought a second hand Thinkpad T14 and am running Fedora on it. Subscribed for a year to Proton and activated VPN Killswitch on all my devices. Next up will be to learn how to selfhost Nextcloud, Syncthing and Immich. 😁
If you’re new to self-hosting I highly recommend you look at YUNOhost. All of those apps are available on it.
Thank you very much! Will look into it :)
How did you get VPN Killswitch on Fedora? And SyncThing is great
Honestly, idk. I just turned it on, set it to advanced and it just works 🤷♂️
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.
Man I’ve been a hot streak! I got NextDNS configured with Mulvad VPN and learned how to route Molly/signal through Tor. I also got a VPN router and was able to set NecxtDNS up on it as well.
I also rebuilt my media studio onto ParotOS and switched from Pro Tools to Bitwig.
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.
Its recent in being a month old now, but:
How do you hardlink your Arr files?
In sonarr/radarr you just select hardlinking instead of copy in the appropriate dropdown menu in settings and that’s it. Nothing else needs to be done if they share the same storage.
I learnt and set it all up a month ago. Don’t remember off the top of my head while on my phone while at work now. You should be able to find documentation online about setting it up in the Arr’s
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.
I’m using Graphene OS since a week. It is a blast! I can only recommend it!
For my girlfriend I set up e/OS on a Fairphone 5. Until now she is not really interested. But will see :D
My privacy win was also to migrate a small WhatsApp group to Signal!😎
You actually got a WhatsApp group to move??!!?!!?? That’s so hard! Congratulations.
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!
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
Nice, I installed navidrome as well (along with the lidarr stack to download music) but I have troubles finding reliable sources for music, may I ask where you get your albums from?
Soulseek is a life saver!
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.