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submitted 6 months ago by digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Originally this was a reply to this article about a Windows feature called Recall, but there's a good argument the author's concerns resonate far beyond Windows and Meta to proprietary generally.

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[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 12 points 6 months ago

What does linux need to try?

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[-] Tapionpoika@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago

Funny how much longer my phone's battery lasts now after I flashed /e/ to it. No constant net traffic anymore.

[-] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 5 points 6 months ago

What is /e/?

[-] jaredt@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

A deGoogled smartphone operating system

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[-] albert180@piefed.social 11 points 6 months ago

I've wanted to switch to OpenSUSE for quite some time now from Fedora for the same reason. Should really do it now

[-] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Its so beautifully stable, without giving you ancient software like Debian. Never had an issue using it n its got a grandma level installation.

[-] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago

Does that mean that fedora is not recommended?

[-] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

I believe in the underlying message (use linux), but doesn't practically every big company change their privacy policy or tos every 10 minutes.

[-] tiny_hedgehog@lemm.ee 9 points 6 months ago

I use Ubuntu. Can someone tell me if that’s “independent and outside US jurisdiction”? I know it’s made/maintained by canonical.

What are some Linux distros that we should avoid? What are some that are independent?

[-] eleitl@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Debian is a community distro. Ubuntu is downstream of it.

[-] albert180@piefed.social 5 points 6 months ago

It's UK based

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[-] datendefekt@feddit.org 8 points 6 months ago

Was considering migrating from Fedora and getting a MacBook, but this is making me reconsider.

[-] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Look, Software shouldn't be free and open Source. I really like that we probably have a decade left of it before it gets bundled with ad services which it should have been from the start. The more people that adopt it means that it's only a matter of time as long as we all just passively watch it get usurped

[-] Charlxmagne@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Ok fed

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[-] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

you should add a /s

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[-] polyamorypagan69@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

[-] araneae@beehaw.org 10 points 6 months ago

Point out in the image file where this is relevant to the topic in the OP, please.

[-] Sas@beehaw.org 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

A) what does this have to do with the post and B) im fairly sure the Israelis are committing as much if not more atrocities than before the election

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

!agedlikemilk

[-] ungsund@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

YOU CAN'T DENY THE WAVEEEEE

I'm been using linux mint for over a year now, and it is legit liberating.

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