Bitwarden Authenticator

Which is why you you and your recipient (which makes it a lot more difficult) should learn to set up PGP

That’s what would do.

You’re welcome.

BTW, it’s also clear that it can be difficult to not react when facing an asshole of some sort, but I think that’s one of the main thing that make us different from them: our ability to not let our emotions dictate our (re)actions. That doesn’t mean we should like them, not even a little bit ;)

I feel it’s odd to ban people I don’t like for their behavior outside the community.

My 2 cents is that one moderates what happens in a community, not what happens in the world outside it.

I also don’t want the community to have a bad reputation of banning people I don’t like but this guys a known racist.

I don’t know yours, but I would quit a community where mods would decide it’s their duty to police the world.

There are many people I do not like, even a few I despise, but that’s just my feelings and emotions and my feelings don’t grant me any right to punish them in any way. Edit: unless they do something in the community I moderate that does not respect the community rules, obviously. But the key idea here is they must do it in the community, what they do elsewhere is none of my business.

It’s hard to make the full switch towards a more private life, but switching your mail already fixes a big underlying issue: that being, Google or other companies having access to all your emails. So, I’ll cover the basics of making your online mailing more private.

The issue is that the moment you send a mail to someone or receive an email from someone that is using Gmail (or whatever provider that don’t care about privacy), your own email is not private anymore: it’s read by that other company. So, unless everyone was to start using encrypted emails and I should say compatible encrypted emails, real email privacy will be little more than a wish.

It’s a good move to ditch companies like Google, obviously, but one should not let potential switcher believe that it’s a magical wand that will make their emails private. It is not.

As a side note, I would also suggest for a much better privacy: use emails aliases so you never share your real email with any company or service provider.

Nice! Thx for sharing

My spouse and I aren’t married but we’ve been together for almost 30 years. No wedding ring for us but so far none of us has tried to kill the other ;)

That’s a possibility, for sure.

I could/should have added ‘books’—good old quality print books. They won’t go anywhere, and no corporation will be able to delete them because of licensing issue and no one will be able to edit them in order to ‘improve their content’ by making it fit whatever trend/hysteria. And those books will stay unchanged no matter if less and less people are interested in reading or are even able to read.

My fountain pens (one was already inherited from my grand father).

To delete them, I would first need to install them. Maybe I should do that? Or maybe not, as I don’t think they’re worth wasting my time (and my peace of mind). Beside digital ID, password manager, financial apps, my cloud (Filen.io) and a chess app, + the taxi app, I have nothing installed on my phone. Not even the email is active. I used to listen to podcast but even that I removed.

I use a few of the service listed but only on my computer, containerized in Firefox. So they and their constant tracking can go f.omething themselves ;)

If I was to really start using my smartphone, I would stop using my iPhone (which I consider less insecure privacy-wise than vanilla Android, but far from being private enough) and would buy one of the /e/ powered smartphone available. I purchased one for my spouse a few years ago and it’s still working great. Worth mentioning she is like me with her phone and don’t do much with it, but all the apps she needs (for work, finance, and stuff) are working fine.

Hi & welcome from a fellow Mint user.
It’s a stable distribution that comes with a lot of things preinstalled (so less extra stuff to install, but also a lot of stuff you might not need)

• +1 for Encryption, both Luks for the system disk and whatever other internal drive and for USB stick or external storage. If someone was to steal my computer I would pissed off but OK, I can deal with it knowing they can’t access my files. Use a good password (mine is 20-ish characters long all random and, yeah, I’ve memorized them but I have a decent working memory ;)
• • for (automated) backups.
• +1 for automated updates
• +1 for not installing from any source. It’s tempting but it should be the exception (for me, it means yt-dlp and Mullvad for the most, of there is also my RSS app of choice newsboat since it’s not officially available anymore :/)
• I don’t use antivirus on Linux (nor on my Mac). But I seldom download anything and don’t open attachments I’m not expecting to receive ;)
• I would not play with services as a beginner as you risk deactivating something you need.
• The firewall as gui that’s installed by default (on my Mint, at least ;): its Gufw on the command line and it’s called Firewall Configuration in the main Mint menu. Open it, type your password, activate the ‘Status’ toggle. Done. Then you can start adding rules as you need them.

I would add to that:

• Don’t rush to tweak everything at the same time. Try one at a time, it’s easier to revert back.
• Backup your home folder regularly. Not only does it contain all your precious files but it also contains most of your settings and tweaks. So, if you ever need to reinstall you will get back all those settings/tweaks when copying back your home to the fresh install.

On that topic,I’m not much of a geek (a 50-something dude and a 35+ years Apple customer) but I did learn to use git to keep a backup of my config folder. So, when I screw up something (so far, Mint has not once screwed up anything by itself, the few issues I had to deal with were all me-related) , I know I can revert back to the previous version of whatever settings I’ve just damaged without difficulty. Learning the basic of Git is not hard, it’s just…odd, and it works great. If it was compatible with LibreOffice files I would love to use if for that too…

A What if I could restart my life from scratch using a magical wand of some sort situation, or something more realistic like ‘I change country/name/job’?

Please, don’t be sorry. I’m real glad you gave it a shot and participated in the community (thx!). There is no requirement to be a devoted journaler to participate. Also, maybe later you will to give another try, who knows?

BTW, if your realization is something you would like to discuss more do not hesitate to do it there too. Not enjoying keeping a journal is 100% legit, no matter the reasons, and I’m pretty sure it could be interesting to discuss it with others.

I have not seen the series but looking at the trailer, albeit with some reserve I wouldn’t mind giving it a chance. That said, I also consider the movie adaptation an incredible piece. So, that series would be against some tough competition here.

BTW, it’s worth noting that I loved Let The Right One In. A difficult and daring movie that took me so much by surprise I then read the novel. A movie I would not suggest to anyone without first getting to know them a little better and what they may appreciate (and not appreciate) in a movie.

I’m definitely interested in getting out of my routine.

That’s a great thing to do, imho ;)

Wishing you to get better soon

I’m not much of a reader, though I would like to get into the Star Wars lore. I had not even thought of that, thanks! 🙂

You’re welcome ;)

Do you have any recommendations for what to read?

I don’t know what you like so it’s a bit like i I asked you what should I eat tonight?

Imho, if you want to give Star Wars a try that’s a good starting point. I don’t know now much about Star Wars so I’m probably not the person you should ask. I do love scifi though and among my favorite authors I would say Ubik, by Philip K. Dick (the guy was the inspiration for films ranging from Matrix to Blade Runner, and many others). It’s fun, it’s not too hard to read and it’s not too long either. And it’s at least as pertinent today as it was when it was written in the 60s.

That said, allow me one advice if you’re not used to reading: don’t be afraid to not like and not finish a book. That’s OK. You have no obligation to.
I read a lot and I never hesitate to quit reading a book I don’t like. Also, I know that my tastes can change (I now love books I hated when I was a kid or a teen, or even a young adult). The Ubik book I suggested is not a difficult read, but you may also not like it at all, and that’s fine. Just look for something else to read ;)

The number of subscribers has reached 311 Still very little participation in !journaling@sh.itjust.works , we’re slowly getting close to a hundred more subscribers since the day I started trying to revive the community (which is great). But there is very little participation (quality content, but still very little).

I realize it’s a niche community but I do wonder what I could do differently to encourage more people to post so the community would really start to feel alive instead of being kept on life support, like I feel it is now.

That said, I’m in no hurry so I’ll keep on regularly posting only less often than I was doing—seeing how things are not moving much I reckon there is not much use in me keeping posting stuff every few days, and not even once every week.

/Not_a_Rant

Are you sure about that?

I don’t mind people sharing their feelings about their switch, joy as well as frustration. And if I did, I would not read them… exactly like I don’t read political topics ;)

Not much into cocks, but I can hardly resist saying I like looking at your cock(s) ;)

Seriously, nice drawings.