utopiah

While I appreciate your desire to improve privacy for yourself and others, you are again inventing things (optional service as if everybody using /e/OS had it, relying on Murena services where not everybody does it) from your very narrow perspective as if it was the truth. Again I imagine your ultimate goal is to help people to find a better alternative (which is something I hope too) but I can't spend more energy arguing with made up problems. I hope others who do read your words and are exhilarated by your passion and the strength of your words do still go check the source of the claims you make but I don't want to have this kind of conversations again so safer to block. Take care of yourself.

Edit: to clarify, Google is the enemy. Meta is the enemy. Amazon is the enemy. etc, not you, not me, not Murena, not LineageOS, not whatever tiny project of the Internet is trying to do slightly less worst than BigTech and surveillance capitalism.

Then it's arguably delegating some of the cost to the final user, large streaming companies spending a bit less on IXP contracts while viewers have to have newer hardware that might need a bit more energy too to run.

back with your Spam

Try it, report me for spam to the mods I'd be curious to hear their opinion.

With /e/, you have to use their own unencrypted servers.

Stop making stuff up... you do NOT have to use Murena services.

Well they say "kill switches are located beneath the battery cover and can be switched with a paperclip or similar tool, so it is not easy to switch them regularly, but for shifting the camera and microphone OFF for longer times they are very suitable"

Saw it earlier today, actual phone https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-shiftphone-8/ at 730EUR, delivery in October.

Got a CMF1 with /e/OS since ~February (cf my history of comments to see the ups and downs, overall happy with both) ... and I admit I'm tempted. I obviously don't need it and having a relative cheap (~350EUR) feels pretty nice to me. Maybe if I want an upgrade later on but for now I'll stick to what I have.

auto delete all the telemetry /e/ collects by default, including the Voice data Sent to OpenAI?

You are back with your FUD. I don't know what you have against /e/OS specifically or if you are genuinely paranoid but in this specific instance you are making stuff up! I clarified in https://lemmy.ml/post/35472063 so maybe a language barrier because the post you linked to was in French but the STT service is

• NOT on by default
• for paying customers only (0 chance that a random person would activate it and thus be shocked)
• tries to anonymize the data

So... that's not even telemetry, that's like activating a service which the company explicitly said relied on OpenAI in the first place, people STILL paid for it AND activated it. They can't be surprised that it's sending anything to OpenAI then.

Come on, help us make this community better. We have enough problems with BigTech, small tech and more that we do NOT need to invent problems!

PS: also the reasoning about the presence on kill switch is ... just plain silly. The PinePhones are running Linux, no Android, no /e/OS/ or whoever actor you might dislikes, OSes built by others, e.g. PmOS, Ubuntu, etc and yet still have hardware kill switches.

Thanks for the clarification, it makes me wonder though, is it bandwidth saving at no user cost? i.e is the compression improved without requiring more compute at the end to decompress?

So... a lot more people now have :

• 4G/5G on the go and proper broadband at home and office and even in unique location (sadly via MuskSat for now...) other ways to get data
• very capable devices in mobile phones, (mostly Android) clients e.g. video projector or dongles, of course computers
• human eyes... that can't really appreciate 4K on average

... so obviously we should NOT stop looking for more efficient ways and new usages but I'm also betting that we are basically reaching diminishing return already. I don't think a lot of people care anymore about much high screen resolution or frequency for typical video streaming. Because that's the most popular usage I imagine everything else, e.g XR, becomes relative to it niche and thus has a hard time benefiting as much from the growth in performances we had until now.

TL;DR: OK cool but aren't we already flattening the curve on the most popular need anyway?

Is it how StingRay work? My understanding is that it's about faking being a legit tower, not compromising a legitimate network.

Use ffmpeg to record audio from your desktop (which will include the meeting) then pass it to whisper.cpp or other text-to-speech FLOSS solutions. No need for "AI" or Windows software for that kind of tasks.

You might want to check sshfs but overall yes rsync works well. I just uploaded 200Go yesterday, no failure.

On my LAN if I want to share without downloading them then I rely on MiniDLNA/ReadyMedia for DLNA/UPnP meaning it works with VLC on desktop, obviously, Android video projectors, mobiles, etc.

Guess it depends on your usage but I stopped using Samba when I didn't have Windows machines on my network. Never looked back.