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  1. Comment on What's your computer/PC like? in ~tech

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    Hmm, well let us know when it’s on Kickstarter (if that’s allowed here). I’ll back the project if it’s not outrageously expensive.

    Hmm, well let us know when it’s on Kickstarter (if that’s allowed here). I’ll back the project if it’s not outrageously expensive.

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  2. Comment on What's your computer/PC like? in ~tech

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    Not to sidetrack, but the case looks fantastic. Maybe I missed it in the description, what motherboard size is this case limited to?

    Not to sidetrack, but the case looks fantastic. Maybe I missed it in the description, what motherboard size is this case limited to?

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  3. Comment on Experiences with LineageOS and/or moving from iPhone to Android (or LineageOS ) in ~tech

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    That makes sense, I don’t know how things have changed in the last few years, and in my personal scenario I’d had enough of google and their prying eyes. Cyanogen/Lineage still used google dns as...

    That makes sense, I don’t know how things have changed in the last few years, and in my personal scenario I’d had enough of google and their prying eyes.

    Cyanogen/Lineage still used google dns as default when I used it. I had been using it with f-droid, but without google cloud services you don’t receive push notifications for many apps. Which led me to micro G, and it worked fairly ok, except for the regular updates it required (again, I don’t know the current state), I ended up having the re-rom my device over issues with it more than once. I also ran my own dns during this time and wiresharked some of the network traffic just to see what was going on. I still saw plenty of IP info related to google coming and going.

    So I gave up and went with iOS, despite a deep dislike of their ecosystem as well. I’m patiently waiting the Librem 5 phone, but I honestly don’t know if it will work out. Anyway, good luck, it will be a learning experience if nothing else.

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  4. Comment on Experiences with LineageOS and/or moving from iPhone to Android (or LineageOS ) in ~tech

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    I did the exact opposite of this a few years ago. Not for any reason other than just my own personal curiosity, but why? What are you looking to gain/change/get out of moving from iOS to Lineage?

    I did the exact opposite of this a few years ago. Not for any reason other than just my own personal curiosity, but why? What are you looking to gain/change/get out of moving from iOS to Lineage?

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  5. Comment on On an internet run by personal information, what do you do to manage yours? in ~tech

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    Just my two cents, but when I think of personal information and the internet I always come back to google. Sure there are others like Facebook and all of the other social media sites. But none of...

    Just my two cents, but when I think of personal information and the internet I always come back to google. Sure there are others like Facebook and all of the other social media sites. But none of them (although Facebook is getting there) have the type of mass surveillance of everything you touch or look at the way google does. If any of you have ever used google analystics, done anything with SEO, or used a google adwords campaign. You would be astonished at how incredibly well they work to target your audience. When you control most of the advertising, and every website you visit/every app you use has analytics you essentially can be anywhere at anytime, on sites/apps/OS that people would never associate with google.

    Any of you that run pihole can see just how blatant they are with transferring information back to themselves. In the end, it’s great that they can offer these services for free, but they didn’t become one of the biggest companies in the world by playing fair, your data is worth far more than most of you here are giving yourselves credit for. And those of you on Android, think about how much you paid for that device. You subsidized their effort to sell your info. While it might not seem pressing or important for you to share that you walked your dog with them, who knows what types of uses there will be for the information we freely gave them in the future. Just so we could have email and a place to save our pictures.

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  6. Comment on What steps do you take to secure your online use and privacy? in ~talk

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    I haven’t used Lineage in a few years, and I’m sure you can change it, but this was part of the reason I moved off the Android platform. The other main reason, was even with a “de-googled” ROM...

    I haven’t used Lineage in a few years, and I’m sure you can change it, but this was part of the reason I moved off the Android platform. The other main reason, was even with a “de-googled” ROM with Micro-g, Cloud messaging goes through them as well. Anyway, I’m not saying it’s good or bad, simply that they’ve got their fingers in so many places it’s very hard to determine what is being siphoned off to them.

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  7. Comment on What steps do you take to secure your online use and privacy? in ~talk

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    It happens to be defaulted to google DNS on mobile, so if you’re concerned about moving away from googles services, it probably doesn’t make sense to send them all of your DNS queries.

    It happens to be defaulted to google DNS on mobile, so if you’re concerned about moving away from googles services, it probably doesn’t make sense to send them all of your DNS queries.

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  8. Comment on What steps do you take to secure your online use and privacy? in ~talk

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    Here’s a question, I used Lineage with Micro G in the past without thinking about this. What DNS server does it use by default? Can it be changed?

    Here’s a question, I used Lineage with Micro G in the past without thinking about this. What DNS server does it use by default? Can it be changed?

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