well, whatever. if you don’t want I won’t force it. truth be told there are a few neglected kde apps, but I have never seen that per-app scroll speed setting. wouldn’t be surprised if its an addon.

everything you said so far was screaming that you did not try plasma 6, but not even plasma 5, but finally this made it clear. you should try it sometime, it changed a lot!

well Instagram is serious about ratelimits

thats possible apparently: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/23840511

I have never heard anyone refer to TV as social media, I have always heard it in context with facebook, twitter and co.

a better objection, which makes me uncertain whether lemmy is social media, is that this is a pseudonymous forum where its not common for users to become friends or know each other, and discussion is not around a specific news site or a specific person, but around specific topics

most people can still only be contacted through facebook messenger and whatsapp

some users solve that with keyword filters, but be careful not to block too broadly

these methods are available to anyone. if a person is bothered by the constant video surveillance of public spaces, they probably also care about other sources of data leaks, against which they can protect themselves.

there’s no need for defeatism.

not all. make it so that it can still be worse for them if the need arises. useful for negotiations

neighbors, just visually seeing him with their eyes

sane neighbors won’t take notes if you, they won’t build a profile of you that can meaningfully be used for nefarious purposes.

mobile operator via their 5G/4G towers

5G, yes, but how accurate is 4G for that purpose? 4G transmitters are not placed as densely as 5G, and the frequency range it uses also makes it less suitable for that, as I know.

for that you can limit your phone to 4G, it may even save you power. and you always have the choice to put your phone to airplane mode. if you find it useful and you are a little determined, you could even automate it with tasker.

mobile OS via their positioning data

you can choose a mobile OS that doesn’t do that. for now…

• WiFi hotspots

• ISP via WiFi hotspots

you mean by your MAC address, when your phone is scanning? better android roms randomize that too, maybe some phones do that on stock OS too.

any app with geolocation tracking and any of their commercial partners purchasing that information

you can win a lot by not installing any app a shop wants you to have. they are taking advantage of the gullibility of the average person. lots of those bait apps are just a website anyway, and if you use them in a browser, they have access ro much fewer things.

but you are talking about apps with location tracking. which ones you mean? I only allow that permission for apps that I trust. on modern android, you can can give only approximate location, which is somewhat better.

connected devices via BT scanning potentially sending back data to their manufacturer, assuming most are connected

I don’t get this one. your devices, or those of others? BLE 5 has MAC address randomization

governments with abilities to get information from ISP, mobile operators, mobile OS maintainers

the government can barge in my door. does that mean I shouldn’t keep data brokers out of my life? to me it doesn’t. I think we already tackled network operators and OS maintainers too.

So… the question IMHO is : is there are NEW data with or without the camera network? I’d argue marginally more.

yes, there is, I think

all IoT devices can if they have any wifi functionality. they can even see the MAC addresses of the devices connecting to these wifi networks. if some of these devices are set to use their original MAC address instead of the randomized address on a network, IoT devices in signal range can see that too.

Your neighbors might know you are around, their doorbell cameras might have footage of you doing so… and what?

its not about the neighbors knowing this or that, but the cloud processing systems of these devices.

well it seems they are not using Industry Standards

Piefed.social is the flagship instance, comparable to lemmy.ml.

comparable in status, or in opinions?

When I ran rooted Android, I used AdAway to keep my HOSTS file up to date. You can’t do that without root, though. At least AFAIK.

you can, not with adaway but others like rethink dns that function as a VPN, without actually using a VPN provider.

when you do that, you can’t use any other VPN apps. though some (including rethink) have additional functions, like an outgoing firewall, wireguard, proxy support, …
though if your company requires a different VPN app… then get a company phone, probably.

recommend trying Jitsi to your therapist. the main advantage of it to me is that it’s not made by big tech, who may be snooping in on the session. I love it, it has all the features and more

oh and also firefox. jitsi and firefox.

well there’s a firmware selector page, wherr you can request additional packages. maybe it can also be used for removing some?

but if you build it yourself you can do any changes you want, too

Don’t expect good Wi-Fi if you went with devboards like OpenWrt One.

why is that?

it could be easier though to make a slimmer custom build, without luci and other noncritical things

Once you have Vaultwarden in a Docker container with Watchtower updating it regularly it’s zero maintenance as far as I’m concerned.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to use a set it and forget it mindset for things like these. how will they know if something happens to vaultwarden? discontinuation, enshittification, repo transfer to new maintainers, bad release by hacked account? we are roughly following the channels to get informed but someone who’s not dealing in IT much even just as a hobby probably won’t get to know if something is up. also, does watchtover properly handle database upgrades, like for postgres?