A dedicated place to share all of our wins! Welcome to our 46th week of privacy & security wins
Now, this only works if you all want it to work. That means:
Don’t be shy! Even the smallest win is something you can share. The more of you who contribute the better it is for everyone
Be positive. Remember we’re all in different places of our journey. Someone enabling 2FA on their first account can be just as excited as someone who figured out how to install Qubes on their new system. Give each other some love!
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My phone still doesn’t phone, but does work. It’s really nice to be able to change the keyboard layout, statusbar contents and everything else. Linux is nice
I get to join the wins this week, I finally managed to upgrade my old gaming desktop that Microsoft didn’t deem good enough for Windows 11 because of the CPU.
The two methods were rufus and the registry edit method. I did the latter and had success and it comes with the benefit of keeping your data. So it was actually a much simpler process than I intended as I was expecting needing to reinstall all the games.
I recorded my journey and will publish on the channel soon!
Not my win but as discord enshittification is creeping . My bestie has convinced her partner to move to Signal. A good strategy if you are going to advertise the privacy aspect of Signal to normies is to transition them slowly but give em incentives they can comprehend. Simply saying “its more private” isnt useful for them because many are either uninformed or nihilistic but telling them this is for Intimate photos, venting, politics, passwords, sharing identification and other sensitive info are all things normal people can understand why you’d prefer less eyes on those. This will form habits.
Also I just need to point out the irony that it is the frustrating process to get people to use an app that is a net benefit is a difficult process but people downloading non-essential life-ruining slop app number 356 is basically friction-less
Migration from 1Password to Bitwarden in progress. I didn’t do an export and import as suggested in the last video. Instead, I am moving the accounts 1 by 1, changing password, checking settings, etc… So far migrated about 20% of my accounts till now. Deleted a few unused accounts as well.
Bought a lifetime plan from Filen. Using it as a backup for storing my photos and documents.
Unless you have a reason to believe that your passwords have been compromised, there is really no good reason for doing this. So, I’m curious why you felt the need to do this?
Man the whole video ads makes me glad I gave up on discord.
Like fine ads that rewarded you based on a task was kind of a gamey way to do ads but that, yeah enough.
Sure I miss talking to one of my communities but my mental health took priority. It honestly went from that to now more than justifying switching away.
Granted I tried to take some to contact me through other means such as Signal but to no luck except one person which is a win.
Still nice and it seems you were featured twice now which is a crazy achievement.
Since last week my mom has continued to use DuckDuckGo instead of Google for her searches, saying that she feels kind of used to it now.
Ardour, which I’ve concluded is the currently leading fully open source Digital Audio Workstation, and also the most feature-packed freely available one on Linux, has continued to grow on me. This means I’m having more reason to do creative work on Linux than I did before, because there are free Ardour builds available on almost every distribution’s software store. Meanwhile it costs money on windows.
My more more in depth transition from Adobe Substance Designer to Material Maker (open source, free & no telemetry alternative) is still on my to-do list but during my short practice I definitely still have not found any dealbreakers!
Welcome to our 46th week of privacy & security wins 
