I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.
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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)
Just do like 10 minutes of research before you buy
The average person might not know what’s reputable and what’s not. A lot of the VPN review sites are also secretly run by the VPN companies, or get paid off by them. Someone might even mix up the bad PrivacyTools for the legitimate PrivacyGuides
Thanks, I’ve edited the title accordingly
On a related note, this story from 2024:
Even ignoring any ownership issues, it’s an awful service. If you look up “ExpressVPN cancel” you’ll find lots of posts and comments from people complaining that they were charged again after cancelling, that the interface makes it difficult to cancel, that they needed to reach out to support multiple times, etc.
Instead:
I check this guide from time to time to see if anything has changed with the usual recommendations:
This is very detailed and helpful, thank you
If you have some more time, which soundbar or AV system did you end up going with?
A few other notes
MSN links are annoying because they act as a wrapper for the content that another actual news site put out. Finding the original link is better for everyone, and it helps on the Lemmy side since then the UI can indicate cross posts with that correct link
I don’t find as much value in news stories with “Trump says” in the headline. It helps in order to anticipate what kind of issues he might cause next, but otherwise I’d much rather read what actually happened instead of losing brain cells reading what trump said about it
A relevant community for anyone visiting this thread:
you’d end up with a list of people assigned to tasks that ordinarily be an A4 page, printed at 400% size and having to be blu-tac’d to the wall rather than just pinned as usual
I’m picturing a group of people crowding around a wall looking for a list of names (assignments, exam results, roles for a play), not realizing that the wall is the list because it’s on A0
The trailers had some fun looking episodes, and some questionable looking ones. Looking forward to it
I tried with the latest version of chrome and no extensions, still getting an error. I think the problem is with them.
This is almost too interesting
Cool find, thanks for sharing!
I think what they’re saying is that, to a lot of people (myself included), Signal is currently the best option despite being centralized. The decentralized options have UX issues, too small a user base, or aren’t well known enough to have gone through robust security/privacy reviews. While you can’t see what’s running on the signal servers, the app is open source and so far it looks to be encrypting the information correctly and it’s not sending anything but the minimal data to their servers.
‘A lot of eyeballs on the code’ is only relevant for open source apps. They were making a comparison between Signal and the many other open source mobile messaging apps.
You might also find this chart helpful if you’re looking for other alternatives. Personally, I found Signal to be the best one to get my friends and family onto
Neat
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse?useskin=cologneblue
If you’re on mobile, set it to desktop else it looks weird
Looks good, I’ve added it to this post and the two pinned ones
Finally! This was keeping me from recommending Signal to more people
If you do decide to opt in to secure backups, you’ll be able to securely back up all of your text messages and the last 45 days’ worth of media for free.
If you want to back up your media history beyond 45 days, as well as your message history, we also offer a paid subscription plan for US$1.99 per month.
That’s excellent to hear. Hopefully no one abuses the media backups, I would understand if they did it by file sizes
Rather we’re looking for a third option. Right now it’s either
accept: Maybe I don’t want to take the call now, or (more commonly), it’s unidentified / a scam call
decline: It might come across as rude in professional or interpersonal settings, or (more commonly) it will identify my line as being active to the scammers
What I want is an option to send it to the background, so that it can continue ringing out, while I continue with what I was doing.
I’m on android, but I guess this is a problem for iOS too
For those unfamiliar, what is each frame referencing?
For people asking about alternative communities, we put together a list a while back when closing !askmen@lemmy.ca: https://lemmy.ca/post/48642221
“Ask” communities (for starting a discussion):
For questions that are more specific to your situation:
Group specific communities:
Broader in topic (not necessarily questions):
There are some other projects in this space already, with varying levels of open source / selfhostability / features
Zulip and Revolt looked the most promising for Slack and Discord replacements respectively
Maybe, but could it also be an intentional dark pattern to make it difficult to cancel?