piuttosto bene, uso quotidianamente sia linux che una custom rom da qualche anno!

Ho dato un’occhiata ai commenti e ho anche visto che hai fatto un altro paio di post sulla cosa, però no, ad essere onesto non ho proprio letto tutto tutto. Ti ho fatto queste domande perché volevo capire meglio come aiutarti… Perché se stai cercando di capire meglio come funziona la sorveglianza su internet in generale e come proteggerti, e lo stai chiedendo a partire da questo discorso dell’uni allora è un tema gigantesco che richiede una certa calma e un po’ di tempo per essere affrontato.

Se invece ti preoccupa il fatto specifico dell’uni allora vedo di leggermi con calma gli altri commenti (forse avrei dovuto farlo subito in effetti, prima di commentare a caso ahah ma ero incuriosito dalla tua domanda) e vedo se c’è altro di utile che posso dirti, ma quello che ti ho scritto secondo me è già sufficiente dal punto di vista uni. Alcuni consigli che ti hanno dato, come passare a Linux o usare custom ROM sono più rivolti alla privacy online in generale che al discorso università, quindi secondo me si stanno un po’ mescolando le cose… Ma magari sono io che non ho capito lol

In ogni caso è molto bello che tu sia preoccupata e ti renda conto dell’importanza del tema ed è deprimente che sia così raro trovare qualcuno che si faccia queste domande e sia (giustamente!) paranoico al riguardo… Detto ciò non andare nel panico, perché per tenere fuori l’uni dai cacchi tuoi hai già fatto abbastanza :)

Ora sono terrorizzata

Ma no! Perché?ahah Già il fatto che non sei entrata con l’account e ne stai usando uno nuovo va benissimo e togli all’Università una gran fetta di tuoi dati personali. Quindi secondo me sei già a posto così.

Dicevo che è un primo passo perché ad essere onesto non ho capito al 100% se hai un problema preciso o se stai semplicemente cercando di regalare meno dati possibili alla tua università. Se è il primo caso, eventualmente spiegami meglio qual è il problema e cerco di aiutarti, se è il secondo invece altre cose che potresti fare sono sicuramente non collegarti al Wi-Fi dell’uni o farlo solo usando una vpn (io non lo facevo e basta, usavo solo rete dati e hotspot), e ridurre al minimo la quantità di app/programmi dell’uni che installi sui tuoi dispositivi personali.

Se non sei connessa alla loro rete, non hai app o programmi loro installati e non sei loggata col tuo account dell’uni da nessuna parte, allora possono spiare ben poco, quindi puoi stare tranquilla!

Chiedi pure se hai bisogno di altro :)

I sound like a criminal

Yeah, a little bit ahah but everyone has their secrets to protect I guess 😄

Anyway, don’t logging into your account at all is a great first step to protect your data. There may be other things to do then but I don’t know, it really depends on what other services does the uni provides and I should know a bit more… I mean for example, is the device yours? Are you connected to uni’s network?

I don’t know about your uni, but I’m Italian and here all the digital services provided by my university were pretty intrusive, to the point that when I can I just wouldn’t use them at all.

What do you mean precisely by “find me”?

It has no relation with GNOME

So I’m not the only one!! thank you, I thought I was crazy

Yes, I agree. Pop!_OS gets a lot of hate for some reason, but it’s actually a really, really good distro.

I was asking about COSMIC though, since I’m really looking forward to try it!

How far is it to be daily drivable, in your opinion? Like, crazy far or just far?

hates you

Laughs in Debian Stable

Bro how about this? Sounds pretty interesting to me

probably olimpia splendid

That helps, yes. Thank you.

That really sucks, sorry to hear that man. It seems honestly pretty bad and I really have to stay away from this distro.

Only RedHat could have conceived something this evil. Of course is RedHat, who else could it have been?

But…!

but, i read a history that happened a bug in ostree, in the early days, and the devs needed to ask the users to fix it manually, but was when in the start of silverblue

This. This is really giving me hope. It kind of confirms what I was saying too. You see? It almost never breaks. But when it breaks, oh man! It breaks very hard indeed.

Never give up mate, that thing is gonna break somehow, sooner or later. It has to.

But well, if that helps, look at the bright side: while it’s true that it’ll almost never give you problems, I think it’s true that the time the problems will happen, they will be pretty hard to solve, so it might break very bad. That’s great, isn’t it?

Don’t tell me that this thing just cannot breaks. If that was even possible, that’d be tremendously evil.

If you want Debian, just install Debian.

Maybe if you’re into wm setups and you’d like to not have to do everything from scratch you can install Bunsenlabs instead.

It’s just plain Debian with preconfigured Openox, that’s all.

jesus christ

Thank you for the reply!

Feel free to ask more.

Okay, I will 😄

using stable vs unstable/edge/etc makes a huge difference.

Yeah, that’s why I was thinking that using edge could have been a good idea, on software so rapidly evolving. Do you use stable because you fear sudden bugs and breakages or for other reasons?

matrix (fluffychat) bridged to whatsapp, signal

So you’re using only fluffychat with bridges? I mean, you have not installed WhatsApp, Signal or Discord clients, right? But there are unofficial flatpak which should work I guess. Or bridges are the only choice? I ask this because while I think bridges are neat, they have their problems and I’m not sure I would happily and painlessly be able to use only them.

And, you’re still using an iOS/Android device from time to time to prevent automatic logout from WhatsApp’s bridge and manage Signal’s login, right? Well I think you should have a device anyway for banking apps. Yes I saw banking it’s dead on Linux and this may be alone one reason to keep an Android device around. It’s a good idea to use a container, although I agree on the risk of being locked out. Though for other android-only apps mendeavor

the bitwarden desktop app which is quite the endeavor

You know, to be honest the last time I tried pmOS it was specifically the unusable state of Bitwarden and Freetube which made me think “okay, maybe it’s better to wait more time before trying to using it”. But after reading your messages I think the time has definitely come :) I’d love to contribute too!

Anyway, one last thing. How do you primarily install software? Apk and flatpak should be the easiest ways I think…? Because I’m talking about flatpak when I say that I tried, but now that I think about it I’m not sure at all that I was supposed to install graphical apps like that, it was just the more obvious way to do it.

Yeah, what to other guy said.

I just mean that I don’t like it. I use it, because it’s surely better than iOS (for my needs, obviously). I can use a custom ROM, change launcher, use F-Droid… All things that aren’t easily possible on iOS.

But it’s still far from ideal for me and I use it just because there are no better alternatives. I mean, the real better alternative is Linux Mobile and it’s great, but I don’t think that, as today, Android it’s 100% replaceable with Linux.

I’m really looking forward for that moment though.