Discussion: Your recent privacy wins? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by cdzero@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Have you had any privacy wins recently? Anything you've tried or tweaked to improve your privacy? Anyone who's listened to something you've said? Do you have any privacy enhancing projects or changes you're working on implementing

I managed to convert someone to Signal this week. Was having reception difficulties with a phone call (both of us in spotty areas) and after a drop out, managed to get them on board with Signal. A very notable quality improvement in the call which helped reinforce to them it was a good idea.

I'm going to work on setting up Pihole over the weekend.

Note: I did steal this topic idea from Techlore.

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[-] mikedd@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Sold all my Apple devices, bought a second hand Pixel 8a and am running GrapheneOS on it. Bought a second hand Thinkpad T14 and am running Fedora on it. Subscribed for a year to Proton and activated VPN Killswitch on all my devices. Next up will be to learn how to selfhost Nextcloud, Syncthing and Immich. 😁

[-] oeuf@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 days ago

If you're new to self-hosting I highly recommend you look at YUNOhost. All of those apps are available on it.

[-] Broken@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

I too thank you for the recommendation.

[-] mikedd@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Thank you very much! Will look into it :)

[-] ringpop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

How did you get VPN Killswitch on Fedora? And SyncThing is great

[-] mikedd@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Honestly, idk. I just turned it on, set it to advanced and it just works 🤷‍♂️

[-] ringpop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

You must use the linux app then and not manual wireguard conf files

[-] mikedd@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Ah yes! But for my raspberry pi with ubuntu server on it, I think I followed something like this https://protonvpn.com/support/wireguard-configurations

[-] ringpop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

there is no tutorial for kill switch in manual confs on that website, i think you have to set it up with ufw

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