Cooper @cooper@fosstodon.org

You might say “Zorin OS is like Windows” or “Vim improves workflow once you learn it”

That’s not good enough.

If it isn’t clean enough, simple enough, and reliable enough for someone to sit down like at a Win10 machine, iPhone or any other device and fulfill their use cases in a minimum of clicks and decision points, it isn’t good enough.

If FOSS wants to take over the world they have to be noticeably better than those that already have. Ideology isn’t a good enough pitch: Superiority is.

#anonymity #privacy #opensource #privacymatters #PrivacyPlease #surveillance #infosec #opsec #tutorials #tracking #security #activisim

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity (New draft v0.9.4):

- https://anonymousplanet.org
- https://mirror.anonymousplanet.org
- (Tor mirror) http://thgtoa7imksbg7rit4grgijl2ef6kc7b56bp56pmtta4g354lydlzkqd.onion/

Archives:

- https://web.archive.org/web/https://anonymousplanet.org;
- https://archive.fo/anonymousplanet.org
- https://cryptpad.fr/drive/#/2/drive/view/Ughm9CjQJCwB8BIppdtvj5zy4PyE-8Gxn11x9zaqJLI/
- (Archive.today over Tor) http://archivecaslytosk.onion/anonymousplanet.org

I'm thinking that I might start including YouTube links in my posts again, the people who don't want to use YouTube just won't click them and the people who do won't be inconvenienced

#meme #stackoverflow #github

Was sitting by the water fountain, and a family came over and was silly playing around with the water, we all became wet, it was fun, we were all smiling, it's another proof for that I should dare being silly more often :) smiles mean so much :)

Manjaro with Plasma mobile has seen major improvements! Here I review it on the recently released Pinephone BETA Edition.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/IJEoWR3trNg

Peertube: https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/6276de14-397c-4a84-8e68-aea96602a1c9

#linux #pinephone #opensource #technology #foss

Jason over at @Linux4Everyone is doing some really great stuff; I love what he's building. If you're on Discord, I'd highly recommend you guys check out the L4E channel - lots of great conversation going on in there.

https://discord.gg/PPwQWyybXZ

Brought in the Pixel to get activated that I bought off Craigslist. Unfortunately, it was flagged as lost/stolen.

Hopefully the guy I bought it from is honest and will get that flag taken off. As a backup, any suggestions on how to get it unlocked?

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: My @fosstodon stickers came in! /woot Today was still a good day.

I like that most VPN services' selling point is to show you your own IP address like, "Oh no! Everyone can see this! You're DOOOOMED!" But it'll be OK if we just let Joe Bob's Discount VPN and Bait Shop have exclusive access to our Internet activity instead.

I just compared the most modern and lightweight #linux distros in an empirical manner to determine who the lightweight champion is. If you are looking for a distro that runs great on a VM or older hardware, please have a read.

https://frontpagelinux.com/articles/lightweight-linux-distro-review-showdown-who-will-become-champion/

Came across this community today and decided to join. Looks like a great choice so far! Gonna leave this link here in case someone's curious: https://ttntm.me/about

So, hypothetically, if we were to throw some other stuff other than stickers into our store, would anybody care? Like t-shirts, hoodies, coffee cups, etc. Asking for a friend.

A big 🎈 🎉 WELCOME 🎉🎈 to our newest moderators, Hund and Tayo! We're happy to have them, both, on board. If you want to know a little more about them or our other amazing staff members, check the link below.

https://hub.fosstodon.org/team/

#fosstodon

Going more private has a lot of old school attitude.

Don't use credit cards, use cash (of course no Apple Pay etc.). Don't use google maps, learn where you need to go and figure it out like you did a decade ago. Don't listen to streaming music, listen to music you downloaded.

What would you do if there was no big tech companies to hold your hand? Will you be lost?

#privacy #google #apple

Just spent a really interesting hour on a Zoom call with our very own @markosaric of @plausible over on #Blogging4Devs (https://bloggingfordevs.com/).

Really interesting hour, Marko - thanks so much for your time and it was really great to "meet" you (albeit) virtually.