I think it’s still very early in development. From what I have seen/tried, it’s not fit for regular Joe consumption yet, and in fairness they are clear about that themselves. I love the concept though, I hope it becomes more mainstream.

I guess when you pay with a credit card, theres limited information being shared. Taking things at face value, you are paying for a service that wont track you, see your data, give away your data etc.

Looking at it in terms of privacy vs. anon is a good way to look at it. If you want anonymity, you won’t be using a credit card I assume, unless it’s a throwaway you can top up. I imagine people who want full anonymity would be using stuff that’s more specialised and niche than the likes of Proton etc., likely FOSS stuff, home servers, services without login/registration.

Privacy is like a step away from anonymity in that regard I think.

The Fossify suite has a messages app. Available on Fdroid. No internet access, no trackers.

It’s not as polished visually as the mainstream apps but works absolutely fine.

Thanks for your thoughts. Totally agree.

I was in the verge of installing GOS but I think there is an issue with a first responder app that we are about to get access to, throwing errors of a phone seems to be rooted or similar, so I’ll have to check that it more. If its a non issue, GOS will be in play.

Good shout on the Fossify suite. Have replaced a few G products with those.

Excellent list of FOSS stuff here which helped me a lot.

https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy

Ah OK thanks. Its not an app as such. I get you now. I was searching for an app or UI install called Photon!

Thank you!

Hi folks.

It was mainly my joy that an app’s default position is “we don’t do notifications”. I’ve never seen that before. Usually one is rushing to turn them off.

I guess its privacy on two levels; privacy from potential tracking, but also privacy from intrusion, constant attention etc.

I get that Lemmy is public and it could be irrelevant if my notifications are on or not. Its just such a refreshing position to see in an app.

Can you tell me more about that? I was able to see this thread on those links but not familiar with Photon. I searched a bit but a few different techie things came up.

You had me at “don’t even bother with most apps any more…” 😁

I can’t unsee that now. 😫

OK I have you. You dont need the internet because you have the internet in your terabyte farm. Pretty cool.

Thanks for the detailed reply.

One final question, I’m sure its dark at the bottom of the deep rabbit hole you are in, what do you do for batteries for your head torch?! 😀

I love the sound of this but can I ask, if the net goes down and you hardly notice, where do you get your ‘net’ from? Or is it that your intranet doesn’t need internet as such and everything is just local?

I might have answered my own question there but I’m interested to understand it a bit more.

Thanks!

Ireland hopes it goes well for you. 🇮🇪

Yes indeed.

As far as I know, if you have a dual boot setup, when you choose what OS to go into, it will use the 8GB available. You dont have to split it 4/4. You’re only using one OS at a time, so whichever you choose on booting up will use the 8GB you have.

Yes it is “undoable” as such. There won’t be a button to undo it just like that, but there will be plenty guides out there I’m sure.

You can usually boot from a USB stick as long a sit has enough space and you prepare it properly by writing the correct file to it.

For Mint you have to write the image file (called an ISO) to the USB, restart the machine, go into boot settinhs, choose “Boot from USB”, and then away you go.

Further deets here: https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

It sounds like you will be buying the laptop and that it won’t have loads of college security stuff on it, which is good for what you want to do.

Depending on your needs in terms of bespoke software, Linux Mint OS might solve a lot of your issues. Piece of piss to install and way better option than Windows. As a former Windows user since W95, I moved to Linux Mint this year and I will never go back.

I had an old Windows 10 machine that was unable to run Windows 11, so I installed Mint on it and its like a new machine. The OS is quite similar to Windows in a lot of ways.

You can even try it out live from the bootable USB before you install. I tried it like that and within about 30 seconds I was hammering the install button.

Having said all this, if you are required to give the laptop to the college to install stuff on, you might be a bit limited.

Am I right that it is not for Spotify despite what it says in OP? Git page refers to YT music only?

Pi4 w/ SSD.

Yeah maybe so. I’ll have a look at the entity names bit I think the loop.is being caused by something in my code. Will report back!

I have this set up to launch SmartTube instead of YouTube. Its working but there is a 1sec delay during which yhe YouTube screen flashes up. Also theres a looping issue if you use the back button to get out of SmartTube.

However, nice to have a way to remap the buttons without installing an additional app.