Humanius

@Humanius@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But being based in the United States it is still subject to American laws, and any potential American spying and embargoes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case it wouldn’t be “good enough” though. But I don’t think this is such a all-or-nothing situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let perfection stand in the way of an improvement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all of them.

  I have a non-official chat group with some colleagues, and a chat group for the neighbourhood that are not likely moving just because I am refusing to use Whatsapp. It would just result in me missing out on those chat groups.

  Currently I just have both installed, and that is also how I try to convince people to install and try out Signal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But I my goal is not to move to Threema, my goal is to move away from Whatsapp.
  Signal fits the bill while expending far less social capital convincing people to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then by all means keep that momentum going. I’m just looking at this from a Dutch perspective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but Threema has basically no momentum behind it at all at this point.
  I’m putting my social capital behind the option that currently stands the most chance of beating out Whatsapp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  After Trump was elected and inaugurated, Signal has finally been gaining some steam here in the Netherlands.

  Its still an American company, so its not ideal. But it’s still significantly better better than letting Facebook have control over the most commonly used chat app.
  WhatsApp needs to go and Signal is the most likely way in which we can achieve that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem in this case is the Google Play Store, not Android.

  Google is blocking Nextcloud from updating their app on the Play Store unless they remove this vital permission. But nothing is stopping Nextcloud from making their app available on third party app stores with the approriate permissions.

  If you download the app from F-Droid instead, it should work correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully there will soon be a fix for this, because like you said, it really sounds like something that should be able to be fixed relatively easily, lol.

  One last question, which you might know perhaps… Where would one go to make feature requests for Linux itself?

  If I quickly Google this I find places to make feature requests for specific distros, but not for Linux as a whole. I ask because I suspect this issue is more fundamental to Linux as a whole, rather than the individual distros I tried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow! Thank you for going through the effort of figuring out whether there was a solution for me. I really appreciate it!

  And yeah… I could probably type all the characters I need to type through workarounds. But my problem is that I don’t think I should have to relearn how to type in order to switch to Linux. It’s a relatively niche issue I ran into, but I’m clearly not the only one running into it.

  Which a shame because I do want Linux to be more widely used than it is currently, and I think small annoyances like this are part of what is holding it back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue I’m talking about is unrelated to keyboard layouts.

  The deadkeys are seemingly defined separately from keyboard layout, and there is no way that I could find to redefine them other than either turning dead key behaviour on or off in the keyboard layouts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So the keyboard I’m using is US International (with deadkeys), which is the standard keyboard for the Netherlands.

  Certain key combinations should create accented character, but certain other key combinations should simply print the accent followed by the character. Typing this way is essentially muscle memory for me, so if it deviates from what I’m used to it really trips me up badly.

  Example:

  ', followed by e should type é (which Linux did correctly)
  ', followed by m should type 'm (where Linux typed an accented ḿ)
  ', followed by c should type ç (where Linux typed an accented ć)
  ', followed by ’ should type ‘’ (where Linux typed ')
  ', followed by [space] should type ’ (which Linux did correctly)

  I checked several forums, but there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to change this behaviour in Linux. Dead key behaviour is seemingly consistent between keyboard layouts, and it can only either be on or off?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When the keyboard doesn’t work correctly, that is not “just how it is” though…
  I’m not going to relearn how to type accents for the sake of switching to Linux. The OS should just work correctly out of the box.

  I tried Mint for four days before getting fed up with things not working as they should, went back to Windows for a week and then tried Fedora for two days again running into very similar issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mint Cinnamon and Fedora KDE Plasme Desktop.

  I ran into various issues, one of them being (for example) incorrect behaviour of dead keys for accented characters. That problem was present in both distros, and I even went so far as to unsuccessfully edit system files to get the desired behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been trying out several Linux distributions over the past couple of weeks to figure out where to go after Windows 10.
  I’m very open to switching. but if I have to be honest, there are still plenty of UX problems in my experience. It’s frustrating enough that I keep going back to Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will stop restricting competition in connection with Google Automotive Services and Google Maps Platform in Europe.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes more sense. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will stop restricting competition in connection with Google Automotive Services and Google Maps Platform in Europe.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that they are referencing the Android Auto versions of these applications, for which you have to run Android Auto to use them? It’s a bit unclear from the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Coup Is In Progress In America⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hitler was very vocal of his disdain for democracy, and he ran on that platform afaik.
  The democratic Weimar Republic was what ruined Germany in his view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Coup Is In Progress In America⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And Americans are seemingly too cowardly to do anything about it. For the love of God defend your democracy. Protest!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It shouldn’t even be that complex…

  I might be mistaken, but ultimately a password manager is basically nothing more than a database of passwords in an encrypted zip file. That could entirely be self-hosted with off the shelf open source applications stringed together.
  All you’d need is a nice UI stringing it all together.