Traffic engineers use decades-old manuals that ignore safety in favour of driver convenience. This has to change. Streets built by them are a huge public safety issue.

We should never accept crashes that result in serious injuries or deaths as if they are an inevitable force of nature or something. They’re merely a predictable outcome of a badly built system.

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You spent more than 15 minutes changing wallpaper in Plasma? I smell bs because it’s really simple.

Right-click on desktop:

Pick an image from the list, or add your own images (“Add…”):

After you click “Add…”:

The last windows I used was 10, and I remember the process being very similar.

Debloating windows is not a one-time adventure, it’s what you’re subscribing to do every now and then.

source: am recovering windoholic.

– Is supporting tray icons important? – What icons? Let the plugin community worry about that. – You’re hired!

I assume you need to pay for exit node hosting + traffic, right? Which would be comparable to the price of a classic VPN.

Seems like you have bigger issues than corporate surveillance.

Bikes are great.

Yeah but everything that I named would say Ubutnu. That’s important. Until you know more, you’ll already be using Ubuntu. That’s why “anybody uses Ubuntu”.

Yes. https://duckduckgo.com?q=firefox+snap+slow

snaps bad because

Because it’s a popular distro. Because when you look for “how to X in linux”, there’s a 90% chance the response will be about Ubuntu. Because your workplace said so. The list goes on.

snaps bad because slow

That’s very nice of you!

Ooh, I do care! I’ll get one more ext4 drive in my system!

I guess the stuff I was worried about was contact list sharing, Google Advertising ID, installed app list, and who knows what else a native app can access. Good to know that Graphene has that protection, I guess I’ll worry less about using WA.

This is a good little story, I enjoyed reading it :)

Yes, having message history and a good desktop client are great benefits of a bridge.

Look up “Beeper”. It’s not about privacy, rather about convenience. They run bridges for you. Nothing went through the main app, but I had to authorize Beeper through WA as a separate session. It would die in 2 weeks with WA disabled, like I said, but I guess if I kept WA enabled this wouldn’t have happened.

I’ve seen WA mods (basically rebuilt .apk files), but I don’t know much about them, and therefore they seem shady.

This summer? I disabled the WA app on my phone, though, so there was no background activity.

My matrix app (an Element fork) had several bridges and multiple chats, I feel like they were all synching in the background. I haven’t noticed that when I was at home, but when I was camping, battery going from 100% in the evening down to 70% in the morning was a problem.