You’re misunderstanding the point of my comment.

It wasn’t competition of how quick it is to complete that specific task in the terminal vs GUI.

That way suites you as you’ve learned it, you’re used to it, and is part of your workflow. It’s efficient for you, that’s great. The terminal suites me as I live and breath it, in and outside of work.

There may be things I do on the command line that would be quicker using a GUI, yet I do it anyway as it is simpler.

You still need similar memorisation when using a GUI.

You don’t give the GUI process a second thought as you’re used to the steps, similar to those using the terminal.

For example, in Windows to create a new text file, save it, and copy it.

You need to know the name of the application (notepad), how to find and open it from the Start menu, the steps within notepad to save the file and the path to save to (file -> save -> navigate to path), the name of the file explorer (Windows Explorer) and how to find and open it, how to navigate to the file, the steps to copying a file (right click copy or ctrl-c), and pasting the file (right click paste or ctrl-v).

On the terminal, it’s a case of remembering commands/switches:
vim document.txt
:wq (write quit)
cp document.txt documentnew.txt
rm document.txt

Both processes require memorisation of specific sequence of steps which overtime you’ll become accustom to and not have to actively think about when repeating a similar process.

My preference is the terminal as it is quicker and simpler in most instances and without the clutter of everything that comes with a GUI application.

I wish I could. I use Signal where possible but most of my contacts don’t care and use WhatsApp. How would the bridge help in terms of privacy as the messages still need to pass through WhatsApp right?

I’m reading Calyx has certain Google services removed, does it stills support push notifications from banking apps and prompts to authorise payments when making a transaction?

I would love to move to a Linux based phone, my old N900 was fantastic. However, I struggle to see how this is possible, for me at least, due to application developers giving no thought to them.

My banking apps and WhatsApp are the only ones I can’t live without. With the banking app specifically and the security around them it’s not possible to run them on a modified non-standard device so short of carrying a separate device it looks like I’m locked into stock Android.

Just to add, if you wanted to start VPN on boot automatically, you can create a systemd service file to take care of that and put it in ~/.config/systemd/user/

Your use of ‘anything’ and ‘everything’ is quite exaggerated.

The average user can do most of their general day to day tasks on Linux without touching the terminal.

Even on Windows, you need to use the command line/shell to complete certain task, so you can’t escape it fully.

Not self-hosted, however Proton supports custom domains and catch-all. Their monthly plans are very reasonable IMO.

Can you explain a bit more about private messaging over AP? I’m unable to find much. So if I sent you a private message, is that viewable in plain text by not just the instance owner we’re both on, but other federated instances too?

Where was it mentioned by OP or yourself this is limited to a purely technical discussion? You’re in the Privacy community, if you read the sidebar it states it’s for discussion for digital privacy, including abuse of power, which is what I and others are discussing with this topic.

I disagree, especially from a privacy perspective. Just as an example, if the CEO of the company goes on a full power trip (Elon, for example with banning users/censoring content that doesn’t align with his views), whose to say they won’t include nefarious changes to their product or service that could jeopardise users they don’t agree with, or start handing over data of their users?,

I’ll need to find the article again, but if I’m not mistaken in my recollection, I recall reading about an app collecting and handling over data to anti-abortion organisation.

It’s just a conversation dude, you can make your point without the need for Reddit style aggression.

The views of those CEO can in some instances be important, those in charge shape the direction of the company and ultimately the product. Look at Twitter for example, once a place of relative free speech, but now controlled by a CEO who bans users he personally doesn’t like, demotes content that doesn’t fit his beliefs, and prevents linking to other services like Mastodon/Lemmy/Instagram.

I’m not claiming it would, but whose to say similar censorship wouldn’t happen with Brave? The CEO has already injected content into webpages and redirected links for monetisation purposes, what if more nefarious actions were taken for content he doesn’t agree with?

It’s not bad, just a little unnecessary. When communicating verbally it’s understandable, similar to using “errm”, giving the person time to think of the next thing to say or as a way to interject into a conversation but with text you don’t need that.

Haha, one for me is “DM” (direct message), I grew up around forums so for me it’s “PM”.

I may have a look at the code for some of the Lemmy clients to see if I can add a filter in for these types of comments to either hide the comment or automatically block the user (extreme)

A few that irk me (I think it’s the grammar Nazi inside me):

Starting comments with “I mean” or “ngl” - it’s completely unnecessary fluff

Mass typos - a typo/bad autocorrect here and there is expected, but when the title/comment is full of them I have to try real hard to understand what they’re trying to say… spend a few seconds to proof read what you’ve typed!

The same regurgitated wit (if you can call it that) - you can almost predict the top comments before going into a thread

Being unable to have a serious discussion on serious topics - going into a news/science/political thread is painful; they’re plagued with bitter, short tempered aggressive comments, and repeated misinformation they’ve heard from other Reddit armchair generals. Just do a little bit of research before stating a fact you’ve read from a stranger.

Not OP, and these aren’t scams as such, but there was some controversy with Brave inserting affiliate links within web pages and also hijacking links to redirect to other URLs that would earn them money.

The CEO also has some controversial views on the Corona virus and LGBTQ rights.