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- on Any private search engines that aren’t SearxNG? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
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on Any private search engines that aren’t SearxNG? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
I appreciate your honesty and you seem like you want to do your best. I’m sorry we aren’t a more supportive group.
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on Any private search engines that aren’t SearxNG? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
You DO realize that you’re firing on your own team, right?
Let’s not do that, here. This is our community, it’s what you and I make of it.
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on Any private search engines that aren’t SearxNG? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
I have heard Kagi just layers their own special sauce atop Google’s index?
It is a unique service with a real value prop, I just want to make sure we are accurate here…
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on What do you do for email? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
Your correspondence? Our correspondence, comrade. 😂
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on What do you do for email? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026
Yes!
Domain forwarding with a wild card should work with nearly any email provider vendor worth their salt, but I was glad to find Tuta does exactly two things and does them reasonably well, and at a price I can accept.
Degoogling has been a two year journey and I’m about 90% of the way done, but only my legacy email are driving me back to Thunderbird on select systems and someday I’ll get to actually delete my entire Google account.
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on What do you do for email? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026
Huh, surprised nobody has mentioned Tuta Mail yet. Cheap monthly and annual plans, hosted Ex-US.
Plus I have a domain, forwarded through my tutamail account, so I have unlimited email receiving addresses, at-will. :)
No fascism, no privacy violations. I’m annoyed they don’t support external clients and the mail rules are fairly limiting, but for my purposes it’s well worth the costs.
Built in calendar also can import ICS files and it has effectively replaced Gcal for my own personal private use.
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on What to do with photos? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Sep 2026
I finally bit the bullet and deployed image this past weekend, it took a few tries and I would suggest to start simple with your first one, you don’t need a complex raid system to just test out copying your photos into it.
As others have mentioned, if you are truly self hosting image you will have multiple copies of your photos and other locations as well, anyways.
But once you actually get the settings dialed in I was shocked at how effective the facial recognition and tagging was, and even more shocked at just how much the whole interface looked like Google photos. Like, the whole design language is shared across both of their uis as best I can tell.
And Google photos is what I had moved off of back in the start of this year, so it felt like coming home for me.
Also worth mention just because folks don’t always think about it at the start, for anyone that has an interest in keeping all of SFW and NSFW content completely separated, I just loaded a second instance of Immich pointing to a different port, in my Portainer deployment, and have two fully functional collections on the same box.
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on Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
The manufacturers and the marketplaces need us to buy a new thing otherwise we would just enjoy the thing that we have until the wheels fall off. TVs had to get innovative to keep fueling replacements.
CRT’s still minimally existed in consumer spaces when 3D TVs were being crammed down our throats. I was grateful when the DLP versus plasma versus LCD wars were over.
But there always has to be a new product platform around the corner for businesses that are requiring endless growth will die. Consider the InstantPot as an object lesson, and then look at the absolutely ludicrous ecosystem of kitchen branded appliances that the Ninja Bullet spawned.
Those of us that bought into vr, and then bought into it again. And then again. Like it or believe in it for reasons that clearly aren’t going to make us profit.
I do not anticipate any AR Revolution, after both Microsoft and Google drink deeply from that goblet and clearly lost. I don’t think meta is new project in that space will be ultimately useful for anyone but perverts and con artists.
I’m increasingly skeptical of growth and Innovation for growth and Innovations sake. I kind of just want to play, now. And also I would do crimes for a refrigerator and a washing machine that was supposed to last 20+ years of continuous operation like our grandparents had.
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on Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
VirtualBoy
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on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
I LOL’d. Have a hug.
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on Recommendations to watch Youtube on TV in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Nobody makes their own boxes, everything you love to play with either gets designed, fabricated, or packaged in to boards, or assembled, in China.
So tired of the casual racism of “this brand good, but that brand bad, because China.” I know you didn’t mean something malicious by it, but we’ve got to do better.
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on Recommendations to watch Youtube on TV in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
I don’t know if it’s feasible or not, but I was going to recommend the same thing, trying to get smarttube over Waydroid, as the most comfortable big screen, remote controlled experience that is privacy first, allows channel subscriptions, and integrates SponsorBlock right out of the box.
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on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
When I did a site that didn’t play nice with one of my various Mozilla Gecko/Fusion browser flavors, I try a different one.
When they all are failing, not just WaterFox, I either fire up DuckDuckGo Browser or Safari if on a Mac.
If that were to fail I probably would quit using that service.
My actual Google account isn’t allowed on most of my computers anymore, since I DeGoogled, and only have it operating in very sandboxed environments like one Vivaldi browser that lives inside of a VM.
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on I turned my streaming stick into a dumb app launcher, and that's all it should be in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Right, this isn’t accommodating that, but I still contend that needs to be the goal.
I dint own this device or an AppleTV, while I’ve owned both in the past.
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on I turned my streaming stick into a dumb app launcher, and that's all it should be in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
I can assure you there’s a whole lot of telemetry and tracking in those. It’s not “and nothing else.”
Apple is the least awful about data privacy. Owning your hardware and stack is still better for privacy.
*edit: others have bored this is still using Google hardware with only a custom launcher, not a unique firmware or os environment for data sovereignty. That Sudha, and the lettuce still remains that we need more open hardware vendors, or legislation that let’s us unlock our own purchased devices to modify further. *
Once again, this place is your community and my community. You can build your people up or tear them down.
If you aren’t here to build community then you should ask yourself what really feeds you.