Common advice to people in the US looking to setup a de-googled phone is to buy it using cash or gift cards at Best Buy. What's the EU equivalent suggestion?

I've been dabbling with #veracrypt again and like what I see so far. Are there any similar FOSS alternatives worth looking at?

What's the current state of long form noatr-enabled #blog tools, i.e. a platform with clean andinimal text formatting where long form blog posts can live persistently in an easy to discover format? #AskNostr

If you can't deploy it, don't use it.

Each time I install an app on a mobile device I try and delete another.

Food is fuel

I feel fortunate to have the need to interact with the healthcare system on a limited basis. Today was a rare and fortunately routine office visit. Upon check-in, I was asked if I'd like to register by scanning my palm on a scanner run by Amazon. I have already seen these scanners at Whole Foods, which was somewhat disturbing yet not quite surprising. Seeing these scanners appear at the registration desk of a healthcare provider, prompting people experiencing a heightened sense of vulnerability to use them is something else. It struck me as disturbingly predatorial, even by big tech's standards, in an industry that is supposed to be at the forefront of data privacy.

Do people on Nostr attend conferences like this Las Vegas one?

What's an all natural and effective way to reduce/eliminate a #tick population?

Parents are the worst part of youth sports

Why #archlinux over #ubuntu?

I used to rely on keybase to pass around docs among devices. I don't believe keybase has been maintained for some time now and the file transfer seems to have stopped working. In comes #Syncthing, which I've used for various things over the years. I now have multiple devices syncing through an encrypted and self-hosted server and passing docs around works really well. One thing I don't like to rely on are the shared Syncthing discovery servers, so I configured Syncthing to run without using them. Also, the docs weren't quite clear on how to config encryption so all docs are stored encrypted on the central server, while being decrypted by the remote devices. I finally figured it out. While not intuitive it is quite easy to do now that I understand how to do it. Would anyone be interested in me further documenting this use case? #foss #opensource