u/Peter8File

Basically everything is a (phone) app now. It's not a case. Companies can extract way more data from phone apps compared to their browser versions.

I am old school, I use desktop for anything I can and my phone is mostly for communicating and recreational use.

But recently many banks and telco companies went app-only, and I hate it.

So I am looking for a way to use their sh**ty apps, but bypassing their despicable tracking and intrusive permissions.

Does anybody knowledgable on this topic know how to do it?

I tried once to install on my pc waydroid and android x86 in a full vm. It was awful to setup and still didn't work.

Anyway I'm asking for my new phone company, so I don't think they have implemented super strict protocols.

What about setting up an isolated environment directly on the phone? Work profile, shelter, rethinkDNS, how good are they?

I'm using NetGuard already, but it only blocks internet connection altogether, so it's only usable when you're not using the tracking apps.

Basically everything is a (phone) app now. It's not a case. Companies can extract way more data from phone apps compared to their browser versions.

I am old school, I use desktop for anything I can and my phone is mostly for communicating and recreational use.

But recently many banks and telco companies went app-only, and I hate it.

So I am looking for a way to use their sh**ty apps, but bypassing their despicable tracking and intrusive permissions.

Does anybody knowledgable on this topic know how to do it?

I tried once to install on my pc waydroid and android x86 in a full vm. It was awful to setup and still didn't work.

Anyway I'm asking for my new phone company, so I don't think they have implemented super strict protocols.

What about setting up an isolated environment directly on the phone? Work profile, shelter, rethinkDNS, how good are they?

I'm using NetGuard already, but it only blocks internet connection altogether, so it's only usable when you're not using the tracking apps.

Non ne so molto di hardware, sono un casual sull'argomento.

Però della crisi di vari componenti(partendo credo dalle ram, andando agli hdd e ssd e l'ultima cosa che ho letto e cpu e gpu). Tutti vogliono vendere ai data center perché hanno più margine di guadagno e poi è uscito fuori che hanno fatto anche cartello proprio per creare scarsità artificiale e tenere i prezzi alti.

Fin qui tutto chiaro.

Ora mi chiedo: nessuno sta riempiendo l'enorme domanda del mercato consumer? Magari qualcuno non allineato alle big tech che fanno questi componenti, ma che ha comunque la capacità di creare i prodotti?

Leggevo appunto che aziende cinesi avevano lanciato ssd o cpu...per loro sarebbe una grande opportunità di riempire grandi fette del mercato che nessuno adesso sta coprendo.

Un po' come sta capitando per altri prodotti (dalle auto, ai telefoni, fino a llm open source).

Per anni ho usato tutorial youtube per imparare applicativi o competenze informatiche in senso più generale, ma da qualche tempo a questa a parte ho proprio un rifiuto: li trovo incredibilmente pallosi, lunghi oltre il necessario(con varie digressioni, battutine per rendere simpatico il contenuto, ma che allunga il brodo, sponsorizzazioni etc) e non è garantito che vadano a spiegare proprio quell'aspetto dove ho difficoltà.

Ora piuttosto provo a smanettare alla cieca o con "aiuto" della IA (che in realtà a volte mi sabota). Tanto perdo tempo allo stesso modo, ma almeno con questo secondo metodo è un processo di scoperta più individuale e mi scoccia meno che ascoltare un tizio passivamente.

NB ai mod del sub: non credo di essere andato off-topic, ma nel caso prima di rimuovere il post potreste indicarmi dei sub adatti su cui fare questa domanda? Grazie in anticipo.

In breve avevo un secondo account, con cui avevo creato un sub. Dopo un giorno circa mi trovo l'account bannato senza nessuna notifica o spiegazione, ma non avendo fatto nient'altro immagino sia per il sub che avevo creato, a cui avevo dato solo il nome senza personalizzarlo.

Mi scoccia aver perso quell'account, ma alla fine era un burner e me ne sono fatto una ragione, ma perdere questo mi scoccerebbe molto di più.

Per questo chiedo, ho sbagliato io qualcosa? Se volessi creare un sub, cosa dovrei evitare di fare?

NB I’ve never used digiKam before, and all my photos and videos are just sitting in normal folders on my drives, no photo management software, no cataloguing, nothing.

Hi everyone,

I have a huge, messy photo and video library built from manual backups made at different times, in a very fragmented way. Now I’m drowning in duplicates with completely different filenames scattered across countless folders. I want to use digiKam to deduplicate everything, but I’m genuinely paranoid about accidentally deleting irreplaceable memories.

How good is digiKam at spotting both exact duplicates (identical files) and near‑duplicates (resized, recompressed, slightly edited versions) of images and videos?
I’d really appreciate hearing about your real‑world experiences, especially regarding:

• False positives (flagging two different photos as the same scene)
• False negatives (missing duplicates a human would easily catch)
• How reliably it handles video files, different formats, short clips, etc.

What workflow and settings do you recommend to stay safe? For instance, using the “Find Duplicate Items” tool with a specific similarity threshold, combining it with fingerprint/hash searches, or anything else. Should I plan to manually review every suggested duplicate, or can the tool be trusted to mark them confidently enough for a semi‑automated cleanup?

I’ll definitely make a full backup before touching anything, but I’d still love to know how much I can lean on digiKam before I start this daunting cleanup. I couldn’t bear losing original files over an overzealous duplicate deletion.

Thanks a ton for any insights, tips, or cautionary tales!

Anyone who’s dealt with me knows that I care about personal privacy, as much as possible, and I resent the impositions and the way big tech companies do things.

That’s why I left Windows several months ago and never looked back, switching to Linux, Ubuntu because it’s more beginner-friendly and one of the most documented and supported distros.

However, I’m noticing more and more how Canonical pushes snaps, then there’s the telemetry issue, and the AIs, theoretically local, but in practice I expect they still send data to Canonical.

I know it’s still possible to remove snap and change configurations myself, but the point is they’re making it increasingly complicated, and rather than fighting against Canonical I thought it would be better to switch distros. What do you think?

I have a few ideas in mind:

• Ubuntu versions without snap and Canonical (Kubuntu?)
• Other well-known distros, like Debian or Fedora
• Lightweight distros like antiX or Bodhi (I tried them a bit on virtual machines and they didn’t seem bad, but then I don’t know how limiting they are in practice)

Anyone who’s dealt with me knows that I care about personal privacy, as much as possible, and I resent the impositions and the way big tech companies do things.

That’s why I left Windows several months ago and never looked back, switching to Linux, Ubuntu because it’s more beginner-friendly and one of the most documented and supported distros.

However, I’m noticing more and more how Canonical pushes snaps, then there’s the telemetry issue, and the AIs, theoretically local, but in practice I expect they still send data to Canonical.

I know it’s still possible to remove snap and change configurations myself, but the point is they’re making it increasingly complicated, and rather than fighting against Canonical I thought it would be better to switch distros. What do you think?

I have a few ideas in mind:

• Ubuntu versions without snap and Canonical (Kubuntu?)
• Other well-known distros, like Debian or Fedora
• Lightweight distros like antiX or Bodhi (I tried them a bit on virtual machines and they didn’t seem bad, but then I don’t know how limiting they are in practice)

Ho sempre usato postepay e postepay evolution come carta prepagata, e paypal come wallet.

Tuttavia dato un recente problema con la carta(problema di verifica che non mi consente né di pagare su certi siti né di associarla a paypal), mi sono trovato in difficoltà nel comprare alcuni articoli online, per cui vorrei aggiungere un'opzione di backup che mi salvano da situazioni come questa.

Cerco una soluzione che abbia i seguenti requisiti:

1. non mobile-first(escludendo quindi revolut), intendo usare il sito dal browser senza app o cellulare.

2. possibilità di ricarica in contanti e/o tramite bonifico sepa (per evitare appunti single point of failure come quello che sto sperimentando ora)

3. nice to have: opzioni per non dare i dati reali della mia carta, quindi carte virtuali usa e getta stile revolut o wallet(che appunto comunica all'ecommerce i dati della mia carta o iban).

Ho provato a informarmi su youtube, ma non sopporto più tutte le menate degli influencer, che allungano il brodo, fanno hype e rendono il video 5 volte più lungo del necessario.

Ho provato a chiedere alle IA, e mi sparano put*nate a raffica e le ho mandate a quel paese.

Ho pensato quindi che magari voi potreste darmi dei consigli più basati.

Uso da molti anni postepay (prima quella base, poi quella evolution) come conto secondario per comprare roba online, tuttavia da qualche tempo a questa parte noto che i controlli automatici antifrode si sono intensificati al limite dell'assurdo, peggiorando l'usabilità e bloccare il conto, dovendo poi passare per l'inferno dell'assistenza.

Nello specifico mi riferisco a pagamenti presso ecommerce esteri, e a quanto ho capito parte del problema e è il 3ds secure.

Mi informi per Revolut(a proposito, qualcuno mi sa dire cosa chiedono in fase di registrazione, se bastano i documenti o gli devo fare i video?), ma prima di scrivere ho letto i precedenti post sull'argomento e sembra che anche Revolut abbia un problema simile.

Ma esistono ancora modi per fare pagamenti online senza tutte queste rotture? Quasi quasi passo a ricomprare di persona o in contanti alla consegna....

I'm setting up a new email setup and ran into Outlook's alias limits (max 2 new aliases per 7-day rolling period, max 10 per year). I noticed that in my Microsoft account settings under Personal info → Sign-in preferences, there are two options: creating a new alias AND importing an existing email address from another provider as an alias.

My question is: does importing an existing external email (e.g. a Outlook from another account) as a Microsoft account alias count toward the same 10/year and 2/week limits? Or does it use a separate quota since you're not actually creating a new u/outlook.com address, just linking an existing one?

If it bypasses the limit, this could be a useful workaround for people who need more aliases without waiting weeks between creations.

Has anyone tested this?

I was tinkering with aliases, it seems possibile to just remove the very address you used to sign up and set an alias as your new main address, meaning it's your new mail account.

So basically it's like creating a brand new account?

I have a problem with connecting a new Outlook account to Thunderbird.

At first it failed authentication, now after I switched on "allow imap" in the webmail, it kinda connects (it shows me an auth error, but still connect and read my mails, even the new ones), but I can't send mails from that account on thunderbird. It shows me an error with smtp server.

I also connected 2 old outlook accounts and had no problems. So what's wrong with the new outlook account?

I created a new outlook account and I want to use it toghether with my old one on thunderbird desktop.

I am having a lot of problems with authentication though with this new account, whereas is was so simple to connect my old outlook account to thunderbird.

I noticed the old one has "Allow devices to use IMAP/POP" switched on, so I tried to switch this on on the new outlook account too, but it switches off automatically after I save and close the window.

So I don't how to manage this situation, any help?

I'm configuring thunderbird right now, but a few things weird me out, like a built in browser and search engine with their home page as a default new page, why should I ever need a f. browser in there?

A mail client is supposed to be a local-only interface for one or more mail accounts, and not much else.

I'm configuring thunderbird right now, but a few things weird me out, like a built in browser and search engine with their home page as a default new page, why should I ever need a f. browser in there?

A mail client is supposed to be a local-only interface for one or more mail accounts, and not much else.

I can't connect my outlook account to a third party client. I've tried several clients (thunderbird, betterbird, gnome evolution), authentication through Oauth2 or app password and none seems to work.

I've got an old outlook(hotmail) account connected with thunderbird no problem for years, recently I connected an account with another provider.

So the problem is with new Outlook authentication.

Any help?

NB infomaniak free account no custom domain

I've been trying to create an alias for half an hour now and I am still puzzled.

The website let me enter the alias name, a second time for confirmation and the password of my main account.

then a message appears telling me that in order to activate the alias I need to confirm to the mail they send...to the alias adress (which is not active yet).

I tried a few things, but none worked.

Sto cercando di scegliere tra questi due per il mio account email personale, dedicato alla ricerca di lavoro, agli account LinkedIn/Indeed e alle comunicazioni con i futuri datori di lavoro.

Mi sta richiedendo molto tempo ripulire il mio vecchio account e so che me ne vorrà altrettanto per spostare i contatti su quello nuovo, quindi non è una decisione che posso invertire facilmente.

Opterei per Infomaniak, ma sono preoccupato per la deliverability +, il dominio ik.me non è così conosciuto come outlook.com, quindi potrei perdere delle opportunità.

Ma quanto è davvero un problema? Dipende dalle dimensioni dell'azienda e dalla sua sede?

I'm deciding between these two for my personal mail account dedicated to job hunting, LinkedIn/Indeed accounts, and communications with future employers.

It's taking me a lot of time to purge my former mail account and I know it will take me as much time to move my contacts to the new one, so it's not a decision I can reverse easily.

I would go with Infomaniak but I'm worried about deliverability, the ik.me domain is not as well known as outlook.com, so I could miss opportunities. But how big of a problem is this really? Does it depend on company size and location? I'm in the EU and looking for a job within that area.