They’re both rock bottom, and that’s the best I can give. However, I will accept a concession in that my argument is more geared towards trying to escape Big Tech surveillance as a whole, not from any specific company. I admit that was a bold move from Apple but that’s our perception of the situation; you don’t actually know the discussions that happened and their inner workings because both companies aren’t transparent in their dealings
I believe they are equally bad, just that Apple takes the effort to present better optics of their actions whilst Google doesn’t care.
I’ve settled for using Thunderbird for POP + Recoll for search. I can’t believe how good Recoll is; in my opinion this is even better than Gmail’s search in their Web GUI. I will be using Recoll for a lot more things now, but my immediate need for search has been fixed for now. Though running Thunderbird just for downloading emails does seem a bit overkill. We’ll see
If I don’t give them permissions to use Bluetooth and cut off their access to WiFi (VPN based firewall), is this threat prevented or am I a fool?
Basically, you trust Apple to not be as bad as Google. I hope you realise how flawed your assumption is. Capitalism doesn’t consider morality in its wake
How does getting an iPhone not worry someone about privacy? Do you believe that Apple doesn’t collect as much data as Google?
Why should I be annoyed with Google if eOS bundles microG in the base image? I’m not frustrated with eOS, I just would have liked if they could give me a choice.
How has your experience been with Mutt? I’ve heard about neomutt from a lot of people but I’m honestly a bit intimidated to move to a completely CLI-based email client especially because it’s another configuration file which I’ll need to be mindful of
Can you name some distros which are FOSS only and would whine if I were to attempt non-FOSS software installs? Debian now bundles non-free software by default (it’s an opt-out now instead of opt-in)
Just coming back to say that I’m loving recoll. I’ve set up Thunderbird to download everything with POP and I’ve pointed recoll at the profile directory. Since Recoll also seems to be able to read PDFs, it is giving me amazing results at blazing speeds. Honestly if there was a decent application to just pull down email with POP I probably wouldn’t even open thunderbird other than to reply to stuff
It sucks that other ROMs are not as up to par in terms of security. That and the US doesn’t have any other options either. Europe has Xiaomi and Fairphone at least, if anybody wants variety
Good plan. I’m balking at having to pay 500 for a mobile device which I know won’t last me for more than 4 years at maximum (unless I spend more and buy iFixit repair kits which isn’t my forté). If the FairPhone was available in the US I’d consider it but I guess running Graphene is probably a better idea given the price you got the device at. Thanks
Xe is insanely talented. If she is who I think she is, then I’ve watched her speak and her depth of knowledge across computer science topics is insane.
I look forward to TOR’s PoW coming out for FOSS WAFs
I don’t think AI companies care, and I wholeheartedly support any and all FOSS projects using PoW when serving their websites. I’d rather have that than have them go down
Is there a reason why you bought the 8A when the 9A just came out? I think they are both $499
Yeah it’s just the Pixels are becoming quite expensive. I liked it when the A series was under $400
I really would like a version of eOS without microG baked in so I can install it in a workspace. Sucks that there’s not an easy option for that
That’s neat
In theory that shouldn’t be possible unless the app runs as root. Although I’m sure somebody out there has a zero day for it. Yeah I don’t know, I don’t give any application permission to use location services, and the ones like maps I set it to “Ask me every time”. I hope that’s good enough for now