And much like flawed facial recognition technology, I’m sure the police will misuse this to convict innocent people of crimes to keep the for-profit prison system full.

I use Vaultwarden with two user accounts but with an “organization” that contains passwords that we both might need access to at some point. They then get updated at the same time the password is updated since it’s where I store all passwords.

But most of those should support booting from USB devices.

I don’t know that very many people would understand the limitations of it just like they didn’t with ChromeOS. Just need a major hardware manufacturer to start putting a Linux distro on their machines and make a more stable application installation system than KDE Discover or shore up Discover a bit and it would be great to consolidate rpm, deb, etc., rather than adding new systems like Snap and Flatpak.

Arch is not recommended for idiots either. If you want cutting edge, you accept the risks. Works that way with all tech.

If you want something similar, you could set up a cheap VPS with your own reverse proxy making sure that all of your connections are secure between the servers and VPS. But it really depends on your situation. If you have an ISP that assigns you a block of static IPv6 addresses, it’s fairly easy to then get a domain and direct based on subdomains to those addresses. I’m not lucky enough to have a halfway decent ISP available in my area, so I can’t get that or even a reasonably priced single IPv4 address for residential service, so I have to make due with dynamic DNS which makes things more complex. I fortunately don’t have an ISP that forces double NAT on me at least. So I have set up a VPS with a reverse proxy and Wireguard VPN tunnel and I use cloudflare as my domain registrar and their DDNS which I update using my OPNSense router which is also the endpoint of the VPN. I’ve been considering moving to hosting headscale on the VPS instead, but haven’t gotten around to it. It really depends on how many servers, his many services, if you have a domain, if you have a VPS or itger server outside of your home network, if your ISP gives static IPs, and you are behind a double nat kind of situation. Also depends a lot on your bandwidth. Having low upload speeds is a common problem especially if you have cable internet service. I’m lucky enough to have symmetrical fiber direct to my modem even if the ISP is way behind and doesn’t offer IPv6 other than 6rd which was meant to be a transitional system like two decades ago and is barely functional.

It’s just a hosted reverse proxy with a proprietary server backend, as far as I can tell. I don’t usually trust “free” things lime that. It’s not that expensive to do it yourself, the real expense come in high bandwidth flowing through the proxy which most self hosted applications for personal use don’t really do.

Anyway, with a reverse proxy on the security end there’s a chance of man in the middle attacks depending on the configuration. And on the privacy end, they will have the ability to log all connections. That may be where they’re planning to make money by selling that info and/or allowing MiTM attacks to inject ads like many ISPs have talked about. But “free” stuff usually isn’t actually free in the long term even if it is now while it’s being tested. Usually just takes a sale to a large corporation for it to become less free even of the original intent wasn’t to do that.

…worse for users. Better for them…in the shirt term. That’s the real issue. Short term Profit overrules everything in modern corporations.

One of the main reasons I moved to GrapheneOS was to avoid the impending push for Gemini to be everywhere and I don’t trust Google not to use some subset of my data by not making a setting for it and not making it clear that it’s being used. They started doing that in way too many places the last several years.

There are many places that have those rules as I mentioned. For private property, it’s not uncommon, but mostly only in secure locations that you buy tickets or otherwise pay or that have other restrictions to enter. Especially artistic venues where artists don’t want their works recorded. This is mostly for protecting financial interests over privacy, though. It’s not common for stores, gyms, and other locations that are open to the public, even if on private property, where taking photos isn’t a financial concern of the location. That’s pretty rare because it was too difficult to convince people to leave behind their phones or trust a worker to keep track of who’s phone is whose, so it kept people from coming to those places. Instead people often voluntarily keep their phones secure in lockers or keep them in their pockets or otherwise don’t take them out in plain view due to social pressure for privacy, especially in public showers, bathrooms, and changing rooms which were the places some politicians insisted it would end up being a major issue without laws.

That’s cool. I wish there were alternatives in the US. The banking apps seem to have all removed their tap to pay features even. I don’t want something like Curve that sells your purchase history in exchange for a few features. I just don’t want to carry a wallet just for credit cards anymore.

I don’t think it’s a big deal most of the time if in public. And private places are always allowed to ban cameras. If you ban smart glasses because of the camera, then you have to ban phones and that was tried and failed in most places. And banning cameras in public or requiring a license to carry one would be a huge hit to freedom overall. All of those things were already tried when portable cameras and then cell phones with cameras were new if you want to research why.

The idea is to allow social pressures to deal with these things. And most of the imagined problems never actually pop up. Like there wasn’t much of a significant increase in illicit photography in changing rooms when cell phones were allowed. The only difference here is that the smart glasses may end up being difficult to differentiate from ordinary glasses eventually. But companies like putting their brands on things, so that may not end up being an issue.

And there have been illicit versions of these things for ages and that isn’t going to go away just because it’s illegal to wear it. It’s already illegal to do a lot of the things people are using them for that you’re likely worried about. Having an additional law for possession is not going to change that very much and definitely won’t balance out the harm caused by disallowing all cameras in public.

Only because you are the product with the others, pr your information anyway. Without selling that info, they need to do a lot to make up the lost profit. Assuming this is real and not just a sting op or something.

What kind of device are you using? There was recently there was a leak that Meta is using technology to have web browsers talk to the Facebook and Instagram apps on your phone without your permission and link your identity to every website you visit that has any Meta plugins. I’m sure other companies are doing the same or similar like Amazon and Google. I’ve been using GrapheneOS on my Android Pixel phone which isolates apps. There are other ways to do this as well if your phone is unlockable. And I use IronFox web browser wherever possible to reduce the capabilities of the browser to do things without my knowledge. And use ReThink and a pihole to reduce the cross site communication where possible. I also left all Meta platforms, but still am migrating away from Google, Amazon, and some other platforms. And make sure your advertising ID is disabled at the OS level.

Those are where I’ve found most of the targeted ads were coming from. Not from the IP address alone.

Strongly recommend reviewing the compatibility of apps you can’t live without, especially finance ones. And you won’t be able to use Google Wallet with tap to pay. Those are often not happy about you having any amount of security or privacy in the name of security, but really usually because they’re too lazy, or want to violate your privacy themselves.

I never really used it so it was fine with me. And the few apps I had to dump I mostly found open source alternatives for other than finance ones which I just use the websites instead now.

This is the real issue. It’s not so much the intentional sale of your info for profit, or, for the majority of people, the threat of surveillance states finding out you’re one of their enemies of the month. Most people are hit by criminals using the info to target them. For example, if they know your adult child’s information and have samples of their voice data from social media, they can make an AI bot to impersonate them and ask for money. Or, if robbers happen to be targeting a neighborhood, they can use your location information to determine when you aren’t home. These are much more complex than most of these scams, though. Most are much simpler, but using some combination of info from social media, security breach data, location data, etc. All of that data is being bought and sold now. Mostly by “legitimate” companies. Things like that are the major consequences for the majority of people.

Icons for pictures, detail view for everything else. Easier to sort in the detail view.

I don’t think the OP is saying to switch to gmail. They’re saying if you think switching from gmail is hard, just wait until you have to pay to forward all of your email if you need to move away from Proton mail if they end up being as bad as Google. They’re saying use something else that’s neither gmail nor proton mail.