Interesting, I had a lot of other things going on at the time so didn’t follow the issue as close as I would now. At least we’re finally getting FTTN transitioning to FTTP at the moment, 10 years too late.
Here I am WFH just fine on a 25/8 Mbps 4G cellular internet connection though. I do wish I had better connection but unfortunately not possible in my situation.
I don’t recall labor not wanting to finish it? My recollection was that it was the libs not wanting to go through with it and that’s how we got fibre to the node after they were elected.
I get that running fibre all the way to every premises in rural areas like Alice Springs would have been ridiculous though.
The memes are better in the prequels
Ah yeah that’s a predicament. Do you know what distro you are going to be using? If you haven’t decided, Fedora with GNOME as the DE is a good bet. Otherwise Zorin or Ubuntu, again with GNOME. Apparently that DE is better for devices with touchscreens.
You can dual-boot if you don’t want to go all in? Not sure about laptop dual boot but that’s what I do on my desktop.
I’ve had a family member complain about “another chatting app on their phone”, but if you convince them that they can only really contact you there (because YOU are deleting everything else off your phone), they’ll do it and see that it’s absolutely fine.
Re Linux: Do you want to be tech support for these people when they accidentally brick their system or they have a file compatibility issue when using Libre Office and collaborating with someone using Word? Linux is easy for people like us that are interested in tech as a hobby.
Normal people sit in the paradigm of just wanting their tech to be as user friendly and railroaded as possible.
I’m sure those people have hobbies, and preferences about those hobbies, that might benefit you if you knew. How would you want them to convince you that, say, changing the oil on your car is actually really quick and easy if you know what to do?
I don’t mean to be obtuse, this is the reality of trying to onboard people that aren’t fussed about privacy. They’ve generally got their own thing going on and don’t want to dive down a new rabbit hole.
Edit: For some actual advice: start with your partner and close friends/family.
Of the friends which you are talking to about it, target the ones which are more likely to already have an existing predisposition to caring about privacy.
Just get them to use Signal for now. Say that you’re deleting WhatsApp or messenger or whatever it is that you use to communicate with them generally and ask them just to install this new one that is more privacy-respecting.
If you can get people off of Facebook Messenger or whatsapp as the default messaging app, that is a huge win. People tend to share their most personal secrets in what they assume to be private forums. Most people don’t post that much stuff to Facebook’s wall anyway anymore.
If the person that you’re speaking to might distrust the government more than Mega-corporations, focus on the fact that the government can access those corporations’ data pretty easily. If the person that you’re trying to convince personally finds musk or Zuckerberg gross, then lean into that.
Don’t even bother talking to Sarah from accounting at work about privacy.
Without clicking, I know exactly what one this is lol
Cleavers are really nice to have for chopping and transferring vegetables though.
Also see our traffic crossings, currency (notes), and preferential voting system for other things Australians do better than most of the rest of the world.
There will still be a small row of bones to remove in the centre of the fillet on the head side. At least in my experience filleting herring.
If Starbucks cannot compete on price, it is nothing. They failed in Australia for being worse than what we already have here.
I had a pixel 5 for 4 years and this wasn’t my personal experience.
I wish I could upvote this twice. This argument works to dispel a lot of pseudosciences as well, especially 5G.
While I completely agree with you about the absence of one-liners and meme comments, and even more left leaning community, there’s still that strong element of “gotcha” in discussions. Also tonnes of people not reading an article before commenting (at a better rate than Reddit probably), and a generally even more doomer attitude is common here.
Here I was thinking that KeePass was about as privacy respecting as possible.
What’s the difference between Reddit and Lemmy culturally? I thought that the people who moved over here held opinions fairly typical of Reddit.
Shares somehow up today
In USD adjusted for inflation it looks to be about $9000.
I wouldn’t challenge this view for Musk, Bezos, Trump. But Zuck gives me more of a “reformed (now married) incel that comes from an otherwise normal family environment vibe”. His marriage seems at least typical, likely loving etc.
His product happens to be the most harmful for democracy and I consider him equal for worst of the bunch as a result, but I think it’s explained by corporate/personal greed and being out of touch with reality.
Chiaki and Moonlight are both great solutions if your Wifi signal is strong and your host device has a wired connection in my experience. Do people with good internet up speeds set it up to stream from WAN? This would be equivalent to that IMO.