I’m trying out ivpn, and find it a viable alternative so far (comparing a Mullvad Wireguard config vs. ivpn app, on resp. Linux & Android)

You can have a look at Roblox’s Exodus report, if you’re curious about the trackers/permissions. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/729804/

Didn’t know all of them, thanks for sharing! Also stumbled upon Helix, which looks pretty neat

I assume Google Photos given the community, all things Google should be downloadable through Google Takeout ( https://takeout.google.com/ )

Exciting you’re interested in the terminal. Personally I find it an invaluable tool, it’s powerful and versatile, suitable for almost any task. So as you learn, I’d encourage you to be concious about what you find interesting or fun, whether it is the coding-, problem solving-, automation-part, or an entiely different aspect.

There are several gamified introductions to programming, scripting and using the shell, which may be a good start. Some of my favourites (off the top of my head) are:

• “The Bandit” on Over the Wire to get familiar with the basics of the shell (terminal).
• Rustlings a collection of small exercises, and a great intro to tge Rust programming language

Somehow I love the name Sea-Rex

Care to elaborate?

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Dumb question here, but you did remember to point at a directory to mount the share to, right?

Part from that, I’ve encountered needing to provide the domain as well (typically WORKGROUP) as the credentials for a user with access to the given share. Furthermore providing username and password on the command-line is known to have some issues, thus I encourage you to provide them in a credential file, which would look something like this:

username=value
password=value
domain=WORKGROUP

My typical command, changed for your case, would be:

mkdir -p ~/mounted_music
sudo mount -t cifs -o credentials=~/creds //DESKTOP-N840KKP/My\ Music ~/mounted_music

Not sure I’ve encountered it myself, but some shares doesn’t support Unix Extensions which can be disabled with “nounix”, you might want to define access rights then either “rw” or “dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777”. (0777 is not a good practice, but it’ll do for testing) thus something like the following options argument.

-o credentials=~/creds,rw,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,nounix

Don’t know how banking works in the US, but is a normal bank transfer not an option?

I think the people behind Session cares for their mission, and it might align with OP’s, so maybe. Although I personally am not too fond of about all their choices.

The omission of Forward Secrecy for instance doesn’t sit well with me. Each to their own though, and they do go into their reasoning on their blog: https://getsession.org/session-protocol-explained

Likewise their last audit from 2021, lists quite a handful of critical/moderate issues in their apps, hopefully they’ve fixet it. Afterall it’s been a while since 2021. https://getsession.org/faq#security-audit

Can share some of my favourites

• KISS laucher
• Floris Board (keyboard, which I love to use)
• Bitwarden + Aegis (password manager + OTP)
• Eternity (for browsing lemmy)
• Mull (hardened firefox fork)
• Organic maps (maps + directions)
• Track & Graph (for tracking trends/habits)
• WebApps (running sandboxed websites)

Just begun exploring using:

• Immich (selfhosted photos solution)
• ReThink (local dns/firewall tracking blocker)

Btw, I believe Obsidian isn’t FOSS.