Not FOSS, but something I’ve been considering is Roon. I switched to Tidal from Spotify (which is a legit improvement imho)
They have a self hostable option and the idea is to mix your personal library, Tidal, Quobuz, and recommendation engines into one app.
Also a note that captial one has a similar service for their own credit cards. Def not as good as privacy.com, but still useful.
You can apply arkenfox or Betterfox to fennec in some somewhat hacky ways via adb (or less hacky if rooted)
Not exactly an unbiased chunk of evidence there, is it?
You can hide your number on Signal so people can’t start conversations with you unless they have your QR code/link.
But even if you leave it visible… it’s really not that big a deal. Tbh, thats a good feature if you want to use Signal as a way for people you don’t often interact with to securely communicate if they have your phone number but can’t utilize encrypted RCS. Once Apple gets on board with encryption then it’s less important for Signal to fill that gap for casual conversation.
Signal may not be perfect for all use cases. But it’s pretty easy to navigate for the normies and its got most of the features people would miss from whatsapp/facebook messenger. I got my family converted to Signal this week from facebook messenger and it went rather smoothly. Plus, Signal has been around for a long time. Even some among my less tech-literate family had already used it in the past, but everyone had heard of it so it was an easy sell.
The reality of communication nowadays is that there is no one size fits all solution. Signal, XMPP, Matrix, whatever else all have their pros/cons.
I know there’s been a lot more discussion around SimpleX lately, but tbh, the sudden noise about it + the VC backing just feels more like a coordinated advertising campaign and that makes me less interested in it.
Hopefully we see some of these projects picked up by others. In a weird way, sometimes these sorts of events end up being exactly what a project needs to get forked/transferred and have even more funding/resources thrown at it.
Ive only recently been utilizing mull, mulch, and hypatia, but they’ve been fantastic. All the best to the devs.
If you want to start the most effective, upgrade your router or primary switch to 2.5G or 10G. Then at least there is a low likelihood of a bottleneck when your devices are communicating internally with each other and youll have overhead downstream. Then, if you have multiple switches, prioritize the highest bandwitch between them over upgrading your devices beyond 1gb nic’s.
I use an opnsense router with 2.5g nic’s, and then I have a 2.5g switch and a 1gb switch than are connected via a 10gb fiber link. (This is all enterprise ubiquity level stuff). But all my downstream devices and switches are 1gb snd I have no plans to upgrade intentionally. Internally, I won’t see bottlenecks often since communication between the switches and modems is enough to support multiple devices spamming 1gb/s file transfers simultaneously (not that itll happen often lol)
So my WiFi access points, primary NAS, and my most used PC are all on 2.5gb connections since they could benefit. But everything else is on 1gb since the switch has way more ports and was way cheaper.
I’m not against buying 10g switches for future proofing, but they’re still too costly for my needs, and its unlikely I’ll wish I had 10g any time soon esp when it comes to internet. Even if I upgrade beyond 1gb fiber service, it’d be so thay multiple devices can fully saturate a 1gb NIC at the same time, not so one computer can speed test 3gb+.
Thay said, what I have is overkill, but i enjoy some homelab tinkering.
Most likely fiber. Around here the ADSL provider (CenturyLink) was the first to start deploying fiber to compete with cable able to do 1gb (which is, of course, highly variable and full of asterisks because coax, quality to neighbors modems to support a stronger mesh, possible MoCA interference, etc.)
More recently they rebranded fiber as a different company… Probably to get rid of the DSL name stigma.
Absolutely, it’s expensive. Definitely better to share it with family and friends to equalize the cost.
I only consider it because I listen to a ton of music, my university degree was music, and I spend a lot of money on music generally.