So the current Flickr image I see…it looks to be the wrong resolution. It’s a 4:3 image that gets stretched out on the desktop and the result isn’t good.

The iamges on Flickr whenever I’ve looked at it as a source, are always disappointing.

I mean you’re constantly warning against windscribe, and that could very well be justified, but you have yet to explain it.

I’ve asked you several times, and all you’re saying is that windscribe is bad. And providing resources that don’t really point to it.

So going back to that map: it doesn’t show anything shady or supsicious on Windscribe’s part except for that relationship with Control D. What am I missing there?

Yeah I am familiar with tech lore’s site (it looks a lot worse now to be honest), that’s how I became aware of Windscribe as an option.

But again, if you go through their categories Windscribe comes off as pretty good and comparable to Mullvad.

What am I missing from techlore’s site that says you shouldn’t use Windscribe?

If you have personal anecdotes, please feel free to share, I would appreciate that feedback.

Your latter point is something I’ve been considering for a while; VPN really won’t protect me if a 3 letter agency is after me.

It is merely an attempt to obscure myself from ISP and it’s tracking.

So even though I’m not fully sold on Windscribe, that’s why I’m kind of leaning towards it.

What’s Henessay? An online search and the top hits aren’t what I think you’re referring to.

I’ll give that link a shot. I installed Obtanium for the first time, and tried adding their installation link (maybe not that one, I don’t remember what I tried adding), but I couldn’t get it to wokr.

But maaaan, their android client looks so amateurish. I mean it’s fine as long as it works, but as an ad for your company…this isn’t it.

So someoone else provided that link; and maybe I’m reading it wrong but Windscribe is just linked to a copmany called Control D.

They seem to encrypt DNS filtering and stuff (haven’t looked into it), but that is a good thing right?

What am I missing with this link and why are so many people linking it

I tried adding their client via Obtanium, it didn’t work.

But man, that client looks so outdated. It looks like a kid’s idea of a website.

Is it the fact that they put out (a somewhat tasteless) AI ad?

In the grand scheme of things and with everything else going on, that seems pretty tame.

In defense of Graphene for the first point:

Graphene has a pin scrambler, so the numbers are in a different position everytime you have to enter them.

It isn’t hard at all to get used to it, and it circumvents the pattern recognition bit.

Fingerprint unlock…that’s a different discussion especially with biometrics not being protected under the law, but for first unlock you always have to enter in a pin

Quickly looking at my phone, you can enter in a passphrase (though personally I think that’s too cumbersome). There’s also a swipe option, I THINK that might be pattern, but I’m not sure. I can’t test it, because it means deleting the already in place measures, and I don’t wnat to do that at the moment.

I don’t know enough about other points to comment on it.

I’m running Endeavour OS. Interestingly I just did a fresh install on a machine the other day, but again, I don’t see the theme anywhere.

Some first reaction feedback:

It’s good but there are two things taht I don’t like.

1.) It uses Breeze system tray icons that I am not a fan of at all; they look very outdated, not fun, boring, and its a smidge hard to get information out of them.

2.) Again in Dolphin, it uses the Breeze icons in the Places tab. I really don’t like those minimal icons; there’s no fun pop color, while at the same time looking modern (ala Kora).

Just to give you an idea of what I mean by non-perfect icons.

I think the overall culprit in Plasma, and as evidenced here, is that I feel Breeze is a really bad icon theme. And a lot of people use that as a starting point…which leads to unsatisfactory results.

How do you get the Oxygen theme?

I went to global themes, and I can’t find it in there.

Can you expand on that? That’s a really interesting conclusion and I’d be interested in hearing how that would work.

Personally I use that setup and am quite disappointed to hear that using wifi calling isn’t the best idea.

May I should just have wifi calling off the entire time, but I would appreciate an explanation so I can plan on how to tailor my phone usage next.

Thanks

Even if you’re using a VPN?

I have a question about methods 1 & 2: do you know if having your phone in wifi calling mode with airplane mode on, prevents that form of tracking?

I just updated to the latest version on my computer and phone (1.18), but discovery doesn’t seem to be working.

It was very frustrating. Restarting both did nothing…I really don’t know what to do.

The only solution was a new button called share by link or something, where you manually type in the web address.

So the transfer mechanism still works…it is just discovery that is borked.

I’m going to go on a rant here, but I was disappointed in the launch of the Pi 5 and even more frustrated at the lack of pushback by the tech community.

I’m forgetting the details now, but it launched much later than it was supposed to (they used covid as an excuse, but I’m not sure). That’s not the issue; the issue is that it was only slightly more powerful than the Pi 4.

Given that the Pi 5 was launched 4 years later, it should have been more powerful. But considering it wasn’t, it meant they were using cheaper silicon.

But the real kicker is that I think it had a $10 (like a 25%) price hike.

So more expensive for marginally better power…screw that.

That along with the locked down nature of arm, I was done with the company. Especially considering the strides x86 has made in low power applications.

It just sucks can’t afford anything right now.