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spiritedaway, 9 months ago

It’s not the app. It’s links you’re visiting from within it.

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

You still need similar memorisation when using a GUI.

You don’t give the GUI process a second thought as you’re used to the steps, similar to those using the terminal.

For example, in Windows to create a new text file, save it, and copy it.

You need to know the name of the application (notepad), how to find and open it from the Start menu, the steps within notepad to save the file and the path to save to (file -> save -> navigate to path), the name of the file explorer (Windows Explorer) and how to find and open it, how to navigate to the file, the steps to copying a file (right click copy or ctrl-c), and pasting the file (right click paste or ctrl-v).

On the terminal, it’s a case of remembering commands/switches:
vim document.txt
:wq (write quit)
cp document.txt documentnew.txt
rm document.txt

Both processes require memorisation of specific sequence of steps which overtime you’ll become accustom to and not have to actively think about when repeating a similar process.

My preference is the terminal as it is quicker and simpler in most instances and without the clutter of everything that comes with a GUI application.

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

You’re misunderstanding the point of my comment.

It wasn’t competition of how quick it is to complete that specific task in the terminal vs GUI.

That way suites you as you’ve learned it, you’re used to it, and is part of your workflow. It’s efficient for you, that’s great. The terminal suites me as I live and breath it, in and outside of work.

There may be things I do on the command line that would be quicker using a GUI, yet I do it anyway as it is simpler.

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

I would love to move to a Linux based phone, my old N900 was fantastic. However, I struggle to see how this is possible, for me at least, due to application developers giving no thought to them.

My banking apps and WhatsApp are the only ones I can’t live without. With the banking app specifically and the security around them it’s not possible to run them on a modified non-standard device so short of carrying a separate device it looks like I’m locked into stock Android.

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

I’m reading Calyx has certain Google services removed, does it stills support push notifications from banking apps and prompts to authorise payments when making a transaction?

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

I wish I could. I use Signal where possible but most of my contacts don’t care and use WhatsApp. How would the bridge help in terms of privacy as the messages still need to pass through WhatsApp right?

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

Just to add, if you wanted to start VPN on boot automatically, you can create a systemd service file to take care of that and put it in ~/.config/systemd/user/

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

Your use of ‘anything’ and ‘everything’ is quite exaggerated.

The average user can do most of their general day to day tasks on Linux without touching the terminal.

Even on Windows, you need to use the command line/shell to complete certain task, so you can’t escape it fully.

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

There’s a dedicated community you can use to do testing if needed !test

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

Before making slanderous accusations that could damage the developers reputation, why not spend a few minutes fact checking or asking the community about the behaviour you’re observing instead of claiming they are facts?

The tracking isn’t from there Connect app., it is sites you are visiting from within it.

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

Not OP, and these aren’t scams as such, but there was some controversy with Brave inserting affiliate links within web pages and also hijacking links to redirect to other URLs that would earn them money.

The CEO also has some controversial views on the Corona virus and LGBTQ rights.

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

It’s just a conversation dude, you can make your point without the need for Reddit style aggression.

The views of those CEO can in some instances be important, those in charge shape the direction of the company and ultimately the product. Look at Twitter for example, once a place of relative free speech, but now controlled by a CEO who bans users he personally doesn’t like, demotes content that doesn’t fit his beliefs, and prevents linking to other services like Mastodon/Lemmy/Instagram.

I’m not claiming it would, but whose to say similar censorship wouldn’t happen with Brave? The CEO has already injected content into webpages and redirected links for monetisation purposes, what if more nefarious actions were taken for content he doesn’t agree with?

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

I disagree, especially from a privacy perspective. Just as an example, if the CEO of the company goes on a full power trip (Elon, for example with banning users/censoring content that doesn’t align with his views), whose to say they won’t include nefarious changes to their product or service that could jeopardise users they don’t agree with, or start handing over data of their users?,

I’ll need to find the article again, but if I’m not mistaken in my recollection, I recall reading about an app collecting and handling over data to anti-abortion organisation.

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

Where was it mentioned by OP or yourself this is limited to a purely technical discussion? You’re in the Privacy community, if you read the sidebar it states it’s for discussion for digital privacy, including abuse of power, which is what I and others are discussing with this topic.

spiritedaway, 10 months ago

Haha, one for me is “DM” (direct message), I grew up around forums so for me it’s “PM”.