The illusion of choice

A lot of “normal” dating apps are also owned by the same companies

Use Signal or SimpleX for more private stuff like this 👀

Source? Afaik there’s no backdoor in their cryptography, except maybe if using the cloud to back up your chats?

Haven’t done it myself yet! I’m planning to switch to Linux Mint later this year, and have a dual boot with Windows on the side, so I can switch at any time if needed.

I think it has a built-in dual boot feature:

I advise backing up your harddrive and stuff to prevent problems, or having one for Windows and the other one for Linux so you avoid problems. Credits here: https://opensource.com/article/18/5/dual-boot-linux#Ubuntu

I have no experience with this yet, always double verify! I think Mint uses GRUB

Arch linux also has a more in depth post on this

Oh nice! I felt like website did a bad job at explaining what it is and how it works

Like, it doesn’t say if it uses one of their servers or if the two devices should be up at the same time. If so, that’s really unfortunate

Platform developers, including those who build custom ROMs, will largely also see little change, since they typically base their work on specific tags or release branches, not the main AOSP branch. Similarly, companies that release forked AOSP products rarely use the main AOSP branch due to its inherent instability.

That’s not what’s implied at all. Please don’t spread misinformation

I guess dual boot could be a solution :)

Element 🤢

Telegram 🤢

How does that differ from something like Nextcloud?

Not that much do though, but yea, people should

WhatsApp is cryptographically secure but yea, still collects your contacts

Still a pain :( they’re too afraid we’ll use regional pricing?

still means they’re willing to collect data

For sure! self hosting is the way

it’s often a pain to install in computers that don’t have it by default, like school computers or similar, but alright, didn’t know it!

+some people don’t like installing stuff

+you can’t collaborate with other people on the default LibreOffice I iirc

A bit of both I guess

Web apps have the advantage of not requiring admin permission and being accessible from pretty much everywhere, and they are often less intensive I believe

And I guess cloud storage of documents makes it even better

Not FOSS and probably not privacy friendly

Proprietary bullshit

We’ll see how it turns out, but yea they’re in big trouble