To not rely on it anymore? Not be tempted?
I suggest to delete it but giving yourself a grace period, e.g 1 year where you redirect emails until you are sure you updates most people and services accordingly. After that period, better to delete and this way hope that Google doesn’t have any of your data anymore.
What if your domain registration lapses and someone else grabs it?
Registrars do warn quite a bit but indeed you can add a yearly notification 1 week ahead in your calendar.
What if you can’t afford the cost five years from now?
You are in quite deep trouble then because the registrar itself is relative cheap, e.g $10/year. It also does not seem to increase significantly. If you can’t afford that you probably should focus on basic necessities first. If you are serious about it though, just like with the yearly notification, set $1/month just for this.
What if you just don’t like the domain name someday?
I mean… you change it? Just like when you went from person@gmail.com to person@mydomain.tld . That process is a bit annoying but as you’ve done it once, it will be easier.
All of these reasons will be problematic and some can result in identity theft and significant fraud. It’s definitely not a decision to be taken lightly, particularly if you have a lot of online accounts.
It’s not a light decision BUT it’s also not such a big deal. If I want to go back to person@gmail.com I can just do so any moment I want (well person-something@gmail.com to be precise). I will keep a 1 year grace period for the transition, start with the most critical accounts first, e.g government and banking then social media, then random accounts based on my history. It’s annoying but it’s a matter of hours over few weeks at most.
The only challenge is to be methodical and giving up on the idea that you’ll update 100% of the account. Getting 99% of the account that truly matter is enough IMHO.
PS: for actually sensitive data, and assuming you somehow didn’t manage to get the grace period YET still are smart enough to think ahead, multi-factor authentication will keep your accounts safe. Honestly I don’t think the overlap though between somebody who cares enough about that AND let’s domain expire is very big though.
Clarifying privacy from whom could help identify possible solution.
Because without privacy you can’t be a proper human being. You need privacy in order to have the safe space to develop, to dare try, to explore without the constant judgement of others. If you can’t be a proper human being, can you genuinely have democracy?
It’s both a per-requisite for humanity and what the political system that is often considered as the most just.
That’s why I care.
I’d clarify that the shear customizability of Linux is optional.
Take a SteamDeck with SteamOS versus a RPi with e.g Debian.
If you “just” play with the SteamDeck and you don’t tinker, well, it “just works”. In most, even though not all, normal situations, e.g plugging a screen, pairing a BT headphone, mouse, keyboard, etc it is solid. It has no problem even while using a compatibility layer like Proton for games themselves made for Windows. It even enable some tinkering thanks to its immutable OS and let the player switch to desktop mode. Not everything works but my personal experience since it’s been out has been pretty much flawless.
Now, take a RPi, with just as stable hardware, with Debian, even stable, and put on it some IoT device, make some weird modifications for it, try a bunch of stuff, remove package, tinker more, chances are it will still work. Tinker more, make stranger modifications to the point it becomes unstable. Is it Linux itself? I’d argue it’s not. I’d argue that instead because we CAN tinker we sometimes do then forget that it’s not the same context as something expected to run without hiccup because it’s been limited to basically the same verified usage.
So… IMHO Linux is even better than it is, we just shouldn’t confuse weird (and important) tinkering with how it can be actually used day to day.
“e” stands for the Euro currency, thought EUR was a bit much and was too lazy to look for €. Apology for the confusion.
never really gotten into the whole “Internet of Things” thing.
Honestly… it’s not worth it. It’s fun, sometimes convenient, but nobody truly needs it except in some very specific situations. That being said it’s also now relatively easy and cheap to setup, e.g RPi4 then add a Zigbee dongle (30e) with a Zigbee lightbulb (20e) or switch (15e) or sensor (e.g temperature for 15e), install HomeAssistant in an hour … and voila, you have a setup you can play with and move from any home to any other in minutes. So it’s not a “big” deal to start but again, what for. I personally do it because I love tinkering and want to feel that I can be at the “state of the art” of technology WITHOUT surveillance capitalism, so it’s more an intellectual and more pursuit rather than a pragmatic approach. So I don’t recommend it but I also had to clarify it’s not that complex or expensive anymore.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain.
I did notice CTF on the description so I imagine “escaping” it is “harder” than with containers. I recently participated to SplinterCon which included a “block-a-thon” (cf day 2 of https://splintercon.net/brussels/ ) to try to escape a limited environment, approximately simulating the limited Internet access of some political regime. It might be interesting in that context too.
Could also be interesting then to distinguish which defaults are changed compared to Docker ones or examples for which nsjail is currently preferred.
No and to be honest without a clear comparison with the advantages AND disadvantages with the most popular solutions, e.g containers with implementations like Docker or Podman, I don’t think I ever will.
Obviously it’s nice to have alternatives which I bet can be interesting in specific use cases but without a way to understand in which specific situations it would be worth investing to learn the tooling, principles, etc then I would, naively, stay with the status quo.
TL;DR: any comparison vs Docker?
Looks like you don’t care for zoning… then I imagine whatever beacon paired solely with your phone would do.
So… I’m going to be that person, yes, you already where it’s going : how about no tech? How about a box, wooden, plastic, whatever, where you put the keys inside? Always.
I know it doesn’t sound fancy, and as somebody who is turning the light on and off above his head with a keyboard shortcut I genuinely understand the challenge, but… in terms of privacy it is hard to beat.
Now… assuming you have HomeAssistant (as I do) and still really want to still do that and are ready to setup an “infrastructure” (to be able to do the zoning) this https://www.linuxmo.com/how-to-create-a-bluetooth-tracker-with-home-assistant-and-esphome/ looks like a proper solution that does work and is fine in terms of privacy. It does look like a lot of work to be honest, and it would only work in your house (or office if it’s yours so you can do the zoning there too) rather than going through the network of mobile devices that Apple and Android do… but it would be a start.
Indeed, I’d buy a Bluetooth keyboard instead.
Linux is not replacing Android tablets any time soon for casual use by non-techies.
Meanwhile PineTab 2 is used nearly daily here, at home and while traveling, by non-techies.
I’m not saying anybody is fine with a Linux tablet… but if the applications (not “apps”) one actually uses function properly on it, no reason that it would gather dust.
PS: tinkered with a Banana Pi BPI-F3 with SpacemiT K1 8 core RISC-V and for that architecture specifically I would wait just a bit more, also why I didn’t get a PineTab V RISC.
lol, yes I just saw that :D No worries, thanks for sharing it there then!
Well I’m not. I have a different setup due to working in VR. I did use for myself and others a RPi as a desktop for few tools and as long as you stick within what’s acceptable for its performance, it’s really nice, such a compact setup. The RPi I use at home and at work are headless servers for e.g DLNA, IoT, backups.
If I didn’t work in XR or play (BG3, EldenRing, etc) then I imagine I would find a RPi 4 sufficient for most of my tasks.
Thanks for sharing back such detailed instructions! I hope you will like it and inspire other to try. I’ve been using it for years now https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Tridactyl after Vimperator and really enjoy browsing this way.
Right, thanks, fixed even though I don’t believe one can run Linux on it. Made me curious about FUZIX though https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/how-to-get-started-with-fuzix-on-raspberry-pi-pico/
The trick is do the opposite, namely bring vim everywhere, e.g using Tridactyl you can bring some behaviors to the browser and, in this very textarea from lemmy, if I press Ctrl+i I get gvim, when I exit it, the content is back in the textarea and I can reply. Vim everywhere.
All Raspberry Pis (except even the Pico) are ARM devices so… yes I’ve been using Linux on ARM for years. It’s been smooth sailing both as desktop or 24/7 home servers except for few very rare packages that aren’t build for that architecture and then themselves have dependencies making it hard but overall as time passes and there are ARM processors everywhere it’s only getting easier. I have not tried on Apple Silicon but here also support only seems to get better.
PS: also been using the PineTab 2 nearly daily and less frequently PinePhone and PinePhone Pro, all on ARM, also only Linux, all good.
Look at /r/deGoogle and you will, sadly, see a lot of people that have a problem stopping.
A typical example is how services from Google, e.g Google Docs, Meet, etc do everything they can to avoid not logging in, and while having to do so, prefer to use a GMail acccount, or “at least” a Google account (which might not require a GMail email).
So… a drug no but a dependency hard to ignore for a lot of people, the same way some people feel “forced” to use WhatsApp.
You are extremely privileged if you never felt that way.