Chafa - I can turn pictures in ANSI art for my terminal

Syncthing - A godsend for me and I can’t believe how easy it is to set up and have it just work, I was almost disappointed when I was setting it up expecting issues and then the mf just works perfectly fine without issue

Tailscale - Very useful to remotely ssh to my computer(s) even from my phone

Termux - terminal on android

This one you may have heard of and it’s not exactly niche, indie or small but I’ll add it anyways just in case: Too Good To Go - allows you to get cheap food and save it from going to waste. I use it a lot when I can’t go to the university cafeteria and don’t feel like cooking

I was born in 2001 and I still used casettes when I was a kid

ok mr fancypants how about I call it a flopper? How bout that

Gen beta will probably still see faxes being used by public administration

Germany still uses faxes, it’s not surprising at all.

Tho tbf they’re common in Italy too even in the better universities

fun fact people born after 1996 are Gen Z

Signal, tho I’m not sure it has a web interface, I use their flatpak on Linux, they have apps for other OSes too (and obviously for your phones)

Ok so this still sacrifices usability for me

Generally just use multiple sources, I used Ground News for quite a while.

Every news outlet will have their biases, that is completely normal everyone has biases, even when you have multiple people reviewing the content, only a fraud will tell you they’re completely unbiased. So just seek multiple sources, preferably from also multiple countries and languages when applicable.

everyone has and always had an agenda.

Aside from that, generally I can agree, the commodification of news and profit-seeking, as often is the case, have ruined everything.

If I may ask, what are you switching to? cause in terms of privacy (without sacrificing usability and other important factors) the phone market looks like a hot pile of garbage. Well I guess FairPhones exist and they’re about as good as you can get but still runs android.

After spending some time volunteering in Ukraine I concluded that probably the best option to ethically buy clothes might just be to buy the Made in UA clothes from Ukrainian local stores tbh.

don’t run Doom with them

Some people here say space, but anything that takes you to space contains microplastics, in fact you yourself contain microplastic. The only way to avoid microplastics is simply to not exist at all. And I don’t mean dying, when you die you still have microplastics in your body.

Pro tip: you can turn the link into ddinstagram to embed on services like Discord and other ones with embeds. This way you don’t have to visit the site

not for Visas but we do use it for several public uses.

bruh what? Italy a lot of towns have a telegram and a whatsapp channel. Everyone uses whatsapp here and it’s similar in Ukraine, Ireland, and several other places.

Kurwa

2FA should always be enabled. Doesn’t mean you always have to log out of a website. It’s a massive important security feature: it saves your ass if your passwords are leaked/cracked/bypassed and it warns you that someone is trying to access your account. Apps like ProtonPass literally make it extremely trivial to fill it in, just push the button that pops up and it will autofill the 6 digit code (or copy it to your clipboard in the worst case), it’s not SMS 2FA, so you’re frankly stupid for not using it if you have that option.

You didn’t address shit, strong passwords will still be vulnerable to certain attacks even if everyone used them. This isn’t a privacy matter either it’s a security one and regardless of what your threat model is 2FA should always be part of your security, there’s a reason more and more websites and apps are pushing it, cause if you don’t force idiots to adopt it they won’t even if it’s extremely important, same reason as why we need rules to make passwords more complicated. It may be an inconvenience (very tragic for the user I know, how dare they make something that autofills and takes a few seconds of my day away from watching useful shit like brainrot and some dumb comments on my favorite social media platform) but it’s an extremely important and necessary measure.

It’s still nowhere near as secure and convenient as using an appropriate tool. You will either have one that is easy to decipher and remember or one that is hard to decipher and remember. And you have to do it every time but at that point you might aswell just remember one password/passphrase and use it for your password manager, defeating the whole point.

Also bare in mind convenience is important in security, if a measure is very inconvenient you will eventually just bypass it on your own cause you can’t be arsed.