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  • Peasley@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldAll of Telegram's Lies About Privacy
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    2 days ago

    It’s a messaging app, it’s useless if there is nobody to message. I dont have any friends using signal yet.

    Also it doesnt work on my phone (Ubuntu touch). There used to be a community app but it’s not currently working.

    I sincerely wish them success, but it’s hard to have faith that a US-based company will actually protect your privacy. Not that Telegram does either. I dont know what information they do even collect.



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    Nothing new here. E2E is only available in one on one chats and is disabled by default. Dont use Telegram if privacy is your main concern.

    At least it has an open-source client. Very few messaging platforms can say that, and fewer have a decent UX.

    It’s not perfect, but it’s got a good combination of features and multi-platform availability. None of the other messaging apps support all of my devices except Matrix, and Matrix doesn’t have stickers

    Edit: Signal doesn’t support all my devices but maybe someday! The network effect is also big. None of my family and friends are on Signal, but most have Telegram. A few have Matrix.

    Also Signal is a US-based company.

    Edit 2: Matrix does have stickers, i guess I’m switching




  • Any tips for 4k gaming on Plasma?

    If i force system scaling, everthing looks great but games dont get to use the full 4k. If i go with app scaling the games look fine but some apps are blurry.

    I figured out a halfway solution where i use no scaling and just made the fonts bigger, but some ui elements are still tiny, and steam doesn’t scale at all.

    Is there a way to disable system scaling for just selected applications?






  • I think the traditional way to do that is via dm-crypt, which you can set up with an ssh server.

    You can also use a network-shared file rather than a password for LUKS but it’s not as straightforward to set up as a password. If you are doing something like tailscale then it’d be unlocked as long as you are on the VPN

    Typing in a password in-person at a data center would be a huge hassle, agreed


  • I’m happy with regular password FDE, i think i’m more likely to encounter hardware failure (and then need to read the drive from another machine) than theft of the drive.

    It’s a good point though, I’m sure many people do need this feature. Ubuntu is “working on it” but so far i guess it’s mostly not working except for VMs



  • I’ve never “debloated” Windows so idk about the top half.

    The bottom half is accurate. Debian, Fedora, and Mint are easier to install than Windows 10 or 11. Not that Windows is difficult, it’s just a bit clunky and idiosyncratic.

    I assume Microsoft doesn’t care much about the installer since it’s generally only used by OEMs, whereas for Linux distros it’s a first impression so it has to be polished.