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Cake day: Feb 20, 2023

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Various stuff, some not best practice per se but here it is (more focused on digital sovereignity than anything else these days):

  • Degoogled my android phone to the greatest degree without breaking essential stuff. Noticed better battery life so a unintended win
  • moved off from Outlook to paid hosted email in my country. Cheap, reliable and have full control over it. Also in case of any issues way easier to get support
  • Cancelled M365 subscription as I don’t use office and was using it purely for cheap OneDrive backup for family
  • Moved all my files for me and my family off of OneDrive to my Synology NAS. Ended up using more of its functionality, happy with the purchase. Doing the occasional backup to the external drive just in case
  • Ditched proprietary authentication apps in favor of Keepassxc. TOTP codes on any synced device so if I lose my mobile phone I don’t get locked out of anything. Local only was mandatory
  • For work stuff I use ente auth, separating work and private MFA
  • Replaced windows on all my machines with linux. Its become more user friendly in recent years and does not get in my way.
  • Replaced all US service providers with EU ones where possible, if any service gets cut off for EU I won’t lose access to anything important, never know with Trump these days…

To be frank I have used it since it started way back and it continues to have the best user experience among messengers. I myself don’t use it for any crucial information but as a messenger with it’s featureset it’s second to none. When a better alternative pops up which will have a better UI and such an extensive featureset I will probably switch over



Shout out for Smart Tube, the best YT app on smart boxes/android TVs, never had any issues


Now that you say it like that, why do purely singleplayer games need internet connectivity at all beside DRM and shovong DLCs down peoples throats


I’m (still) using the regular Keepass but that is indeed a nice feature, might consider switching to it for TOTP. Thank you!


So it’s the perfect sleeper PC that can be procured at work without anyone raising eyebrows because it’s not in-your-face gamer aesthetic


Man you just nudged me to it, will definitely try it out with my Legion together with PopOS as I’m fed up lately with Windows 11 lately, saving this post for later. I do very much like and prefer KDE, didn’t Mint have a KDE integrated release at some point or am I going senile? EDIT: definitely not senile, they had it as an option until 19, bummer


I blame people’s shorter attention spans for it, to a degree I’m also guilty of it. Can’t read a book nowadays before my focus shifts somewhere else.