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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I actually have really fond memories of Sabayon, the community was really nice. It also served as a good gateway into Gentoo by giving you a pre-configured usable system, including its binary package manager, but also gentoo's emerge (not that you should use both at the same time).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, I'm in Sweden, 30 and both know how to and do drive a manual car.

 

Hello everyone,

As the title says, I need to use Google Classroom for a class I'm taking with my local school. I didn't get a choice in tooling unfortunately. I have in my private life cut google out, not having used Gmail in over a decade, using Youtube through invidious, OSM instead of Google Maps, etc.

I'm already planning on using either Firefox multiple account containers or a different dedicated browser for school stuff entirely. Is there any other advice you have to protect my privacy as much as possible?

I'm in the EU and I know Google is more limited in the data they can collect from educational uses, but obviously I don't trust Google.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

My last phone I kept for about 5 years. I had two issues:

  • software support had ended
  • the battery was severely degraded

fortunately there was a local shop who'd replace the battery (it wasn't a fairphone so I couldn't do it myself). If it wasn't for the software support I'd have gone that route and would be still using it now. It worked perfectly well for my use case. Unfortunately, I ended up retiring the phone and getting a new one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've found this too. Generally if I'm okay waiting for the answer I'll try and find the relevant lemmy community and ask that question there instead of clicking the reddit links. There are times though I simply need the answer and so of course I do click the reddit link.

Even so, if we all try and ask the questions we have here Lemmy will eventually be the place you find this information

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used it a lot, not through Google's gchat stuff, I ran my own XMPP server. It worked really well, I used the OTR encryption plugin in pidgeon. My work also used to use xmpp for internal chat within the company, however they switched to matrix like 5-6 years ago. Something I've since done personally too.

I like XMPP a lot, it worked well, including it being federated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I live in Sweden. Yeah, the tap water is clean and can be drank straight from the tap without boiling, filtering, or treatment in the whole country.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use SMS and Matrix. I'd love to see something like Briar become more popular, or maybe XMPP make a resurgence as it's been a great federated chat protocol for a long while.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just looked it up since I was sure I had read they had their own. On their wikipedia article it says:

In its early days on the Internet, the Qwant search engine relied on Bing to provide more relevant results. In 2016, Qwant claimed to be increasingly using its own results from its own exploration robots. It is still at the status of hybrid engine.[89] In 2020, Qwant claimed to have exceeded 50% of independent results for web searches, and 70% for all researchs

so I guess it's both bing and their own thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed, it feels like it's a strong signal they don't take privacy seriously.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think Qwant does too, right?

 

My pick is crew chief for a better spotter alternative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have all the languages available to select selected, but swedish unfortunately isn't one of them

 

I found and subscribed to https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected] yesterday and when I view it on sh.itjust.works I don't see any posts but on the original instance I'm seeing many posts.

Does anyone know what's going on there?

 

I'll go first. I've used a lot of search engines, I used duckduckgo for quite some time but found their search results kinda bad. I'm currently using ecosia the search results are similar to ddg's but at least I'm planting trees, so there's that.

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