In the US they use Chromebooks, not really any better but they do have Linux under the hood.
Kirk
Not really, it's still encrypted. If you're not a political dissident and just using Signal to chat with friends then it is helpful to make yourself available to said friends.
I have notifications on when someone joins and maybe 75% of the time after I see the notification their account is "deleted" because they changed the privacy settings.
It's not the end of the world but I do wish more people wouldn't automatically pick the maximum privacy setting so that we could actually, yknow use it
Foolish for sure but not as bad as trusting random unsourced claims on Lemmy!
You're backing up 4tb for $6/mo? I looked into B2 for a 2tb drive and it was double that.
Yeah, and a lot of the screenshotted comments don't even read like bots, they read like someone in a developing country that doesn't speak english as a primary language.
No need for an alternative, it can be self hosted and (for now) the original repo is still up: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Honestly the entire notion of caring about "ratings" at all is stupid unless you are trying to sell ads. Reviews are great and reviewing art is an art form of it's own. But taking a bunch of reviews and smoothing them together and averaging them out in order to pretend you've reached some sort of objective truth about how "good" a piece of media is is a stupid thing to care about and will only bring you sorrow and a more shallow life.
Getting a local security camera setup is kind of a pain but do able. Look into the self hosted software Frigate and go with their recommended brands.