- Convinced my mom to use DuckDuckGo instead of Google as her search engine.
She is kind of computer illiterate and not into privacy, and during lunch, by a coincidence where the phone had to do an automatic update of the Google search app, I quickly helped her use Safari with DuckDuckGo as the search engine, so she could search about mustard sauce witbout having to wait (lol). I told her after her search that she was actually using DuckDuckGo, not Google, and she was pleasantly surprised. But then in a vaguely worded way she asked me if it has any compatibility issue with something else. When I told her that it does exactly the same thing as Google, nothing will break, she agreed to me wanting to remove the Google search alltogheter for her. Kind of shocking was that she said she never knew there was something else to use for searching stuff. Later on I told her what the benefits are of DuckDuckGo, like how everyone sees the same result when the prompt is the same, but not sure how much of that landed. While I was at it, I removed both Google Chrome (she didn’t store any bookmarks in there) and the Google (search) app, leaving her with Safari and DuckDuckGo browser.
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Got Ente Auth after getting positive info on it through the Techlore content. Glad to have left Aegis behind, not because it’s bad, but I think Ente Auth is a bit more resilient all things considered. No need for manual backups of the codes anymore (which I sometimes forget).
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After some trial and error and a getting used to the controls for a little while, I’m now able to use OpenSnitch on Linux (Zorin OS) as a “prompt based” firewall for my applications, denying all connections of a new application unless I click allow on the prompt.
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Learning to use more FOSS software for my digital media artist college education, which is more of an indirect privacywin because it allows me to reside in Linux more and usually there is less telemetry in FOSS. These are the programs I slooowly (
) started transitioning into:
– Substance Designer → Material Maker
– Ableton Live → Ardour
And I’ve been mapping out future transitions/learning about what these alternatives are:
– Maya → Blender
– Substance Painter → ArmorPaint