There’s an easy way to thoroughly and permanently remove the recall feature.
uninstalling spyware from windows takes longer than installing linux at this point
And they’ll just reinstall the spyware next feature update.
I finally switched to Linux as my daily driver when I found it took significantly less time than Win11–mainly driver support. Spent several hours trying to get Windows to recognize all my hardware, Mint had it all out of the box.
Yeah, I’m actually on CachyOS now. I just always point newcomers to Mint because it’s easy and well supported.
I didn’t mean it as recommending arch or gentoo to new Linux users.
How’s CachyOS been for you? I’ve compiled a few repo packages myself & am in the process of testing Gentoo.
It’s been great so far. Minimalistic in its philosophy (even with a choice of DE, it doesn’t install the typical slew of utility applications and such), and it’s easily the fastest distro I’ve ever used. I’ve had almost zero problems with Steam and Heroic. Overall I think I’m gonna stick with it for the foreseeable future.
If your first priority is speed, would clear Linux be better? Though I can see the appeal in a more performant Arch.
Edit:
almost zero problems
What problems did you encounter? Would they also have affected Arch?
Yeah, they were common to Arch. Specifically, Steam would cause the entire system to stutter for a good 30 seconds when starting it up. Found a tip online about it doing something with some extra config files, followed the tip and now it’s working fine.
Even using the CachyOS versions of Proton and Wine libraries (which have the same kind of optimizations applied as the rest of the OS) has worked flawlessly, and my games are smoother than they’ve ever been. Pretty impressed with it overall.
How much of a difference do you notice in practice? Do you think you could see similiar gains by compiling, for example, Wine & some libraries with
-march=native& maybe-O3?Note:
-march=nativedoes imply-mtune=native, at least on gcc, unless you specify another tune yourself. Some people assume that it isn’t the case, but it’s stated in the man page:Sorry for the arch/tune rant.
There’s also this.
Time to sprinkle DRM magic on every Windows application
People everywhere rely on Signal to protect their communication, including human rights workers, governments, board rooms, militaries, and millions of individuals around the world for whom privacy is an existential matter.
One government in particular.
based
Signal also conveniently forgot all of my previous messages in the most recent update.
But hey if I log in and register my phone number they might be able to get it back.
Fuck signal
Threema for me
FYI: Signal stores all of your messages on your device. If something happens to them there, they’re gone. In not saying that justifies an update nuking your messages. Just explaining for anyone who it’s not understand that There’s no central database storing your data long term. Which is a feature.
☞ automatic backups
Use a messenger that doesn’t require to to log in to view data stored on your phone. I’m sure the data is there, I’m just not allowed to see it.
Use a messenger that doesn’t require to to log in to view data stored on your phone. I’m sure the data is there, I’m just not allowed to see it.
sorry, I don’t understand what you mean.
take a look at #Simplex Chat simplex.chat for a different experience.
i have simplex, element, briar and even rattlegram.
with messengers “a different experience” is interesting (for me) but if the people i’m communicating with are not sharing those “experiences”, what good do they bring? Am i going to chat with myself?
Getting people to use Signal instead of WhatsApp was a challenge already. Now almost all my contacts are on Signal.
How am i going to get people to use any of these apps considering that Signal has no shortfalls (like belonging to Facebook and spying on you)?
