Shakuni

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US to take 10% equity stake in Intel (www.reuters.com)
 

US to take 10% equity stake in Intel, in Trump's latest corporate move. What are you thoughts on this from a privacy standpoint? I'm not close to being an expert on this tech, but can the US Government exploit this?

Joplin + Encryption + Syncthing from a dumb noob (me) across Win11, Android, Linux. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] Shakuni@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

๐Ÿ˜ thanks for the encouragement. I was afraid of getting ganged up on for using Ubuntu/Gemini hahaha

Joplin + Encryption + Syncthing from a dumb noob (me) across Win11, Android, Linux. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] Shakuni@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Interesting, I will take a look at that. Thanks!

Joplin + Encryption + Syncthing from a dumb noob (me) across Win11, Android, Linux. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] Shakuni@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

About that... That is why I took out the old Dell. Gonna convert it into a beginner server. But that's probably gonna take months to figure out hahaha. But yes, it is the ultimate overarching goal here. I needed to get Joplin running first to segregate and catalogue new info/tips/terminal commands/guides.

Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] Shakuni@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I've used Obsidian and just today moved to Joplin. Obsidian has way more features for power users and wider array of community plugins.

BUT

Joplin is FOSS and it still has plenty of features. Think of Obsidian capabilities as Microsoft Excel, whereas Joplin is at the level of Google Sheets. And Joplin notes can be encrypted, meaning .md files won't be found lying around.

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Joplin + Encryption + Syncthing from a dumb noob (me) across Win11, Android, Linux. (lemmy.ml)
 

Main point of this post: Joplin+Syncthing initial setup can be a pain. First set up sync folder (the target folder for Joplin File System) on Syncthing. Then take main device offline (no sync). Then point Joplin towards target File System location on all devices, then enable encryption with same Master Pass on all devices. Finally write a test note on main device (where you might have other old notes imported from other services), then hit sync, then fire up Syncthing on main device to broadcast newest test file. Hit sync on all devices, disable fail-safe temporarily for first setup if prompted. If test is successful, import any old notes to main device and enjoy life as a certified hacker.

Background: So I am technologically handicapped, meaning the extent of my knowledge is limited to reading blogs or articles, with no coding experience. I have used Syncthing for a long time for music and ebooks syncing, and for a short period for Obsidian, but it always bothered me that Obsidian isn't FOSS or encrypted even though it's cool. Only recently discovered Joplin has encryption capabilities so I decided to dive in.

But first, I had to make the process harder for myself so I took out my dusty old 10 year old Dell laptop and installed Ubuntu (to support touchscreen), my first ever Linux experience. With the help of Gemini (dumb, I know) I got Syncthing and Joplin working on it. After 2 days of struggling to get the Sync to work without conflicts, I finally did it WOOHOO. Totally a hacker, that's me.

Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic review: Yes, it really is worth $500 in c/android@lemmy.world
[โ€“] Shakuni@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

$500 e-waste.

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FOSS Alternative to Microsoft Lens? The development of OpenScan has been halted for 3 years. (github.com)
 

What is a good FOSS Android app to scan documents and immediately convert them to pdfs? On Microsoft Lens, you can take multiple scans and also merge different ones together to create a combined PDF. Thanks.