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I've used this with success:

https://github.com/MichiMunich/Windows10-Privacy

Looks like it has been updated to include some additional functionality (like update control) since I last used it.

No, think I saw it on here first..but it's a pretty powerful phrase.

Yes, this. If it's free, you're the product. Same reason I pay for Fastmail.

Am I the only one who has decided that I'm more comfortable with iOS and an AppleID than I am with something like LineageOS and still having to have a Google account - even though I prefer Android?

I'm operating under the assumption that Apple is more privacy friendly than Google under pretty much any circumstance.

I've done the Cyanogen + F-Droid thing and it's just miserably inconvenient, and none of the "proprietary" alternative app stores have any sort of catalog to write home about.

Syncthing is awesome. It is more difficult to setup than something like Dropbox (though, scanning QR codes is pretty easy IMO), but that has gotten exponentially better over the last year or so via the community and it seems to only be getting better.

Happy customer since 2014 and will be forever! Love the service and their values.

I've been using DuckDuckGo for about the same time frame and have had a similar experience. At first it was painful, but at this point it's extremely rare that I can't find what I'm looking for in one search with DDG.

I work from home four days a week and commute one day - usually around 2 hours round trip.

I get paid less at this job than I would if I was willing to commute to the city where my office is located. But I consider the mental and emotional benefit of not having that daily grind to be worth more than the wage gap.

I greatly prefer to slow pace of country life after a day working, whether at home or in the office. The technology industry is stressful enough without the added stress of city dwelling, in my opinion.

Conclusion is fine. The clickbait title is the problem.

It's possible in the tech field if you set expectations properly. I've done it for weeks and months at the time but always ended up back with some variety of smartphone primarily because of so many things you lose by giving one up.

I use social media very little, and only Twitter for sports and other news. I read a lot on my phone (Pocket, HN, Feedly), and I use it as my sole GPS, my sole camera, and my only physical phone.

I hate that I tend to use every idle minute reading or fiddling with it, and it's something I try often to be cognizant of. But, admittedly, I don't do well with it. I'm fairly addicted to using it to stave off boredom.

I would be curious to know if those who have succeeded in giving up their smartphone for a long period of time just replaced their idle time with something else - iPad, laptop, video games, etc. or did they genuinely reduce their "connected" time?

Pretty old.

Thomas Gale Moore, "Trucking Deregulation." The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. 1993. Library of Economics and Liberty. 15 December 2015. <http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/TruckingDeregulation.htm....

Fastmail is fantastic and their policies and pricing are fantastic as well. Really happy with them, and moreso after this story and the recent DDoS troubles they went through.

I would be really curious to see if this sort of strong arm tactic actually works for them. Part of me wants to see them implement it just to see if their users cry loud enough to make them revert, but I have a feeling the vast majority would just disable Adblock and go on about their business. Most anyone serious about privacy likely quit using free email services long ago.

I did read the article and I personally know numerous LEOs (result of living in a small rural town), none of whom would begin firing into a locked door because of a reported burglary.

Your point about life-or-death situations is valid, likely on both the author's and the LEO's side, but it still doesn't help her argument that this was race related..which is really the most frustrating part for me.

Why would she not plead her case behind her locked door? Pass her ID under the door first, explain the situation, and THEN come out?

It seems a lot of the situation could have been avoided. I don't think they were going to shoot her through the door for a burglary.

The events after were pretty disappointing: officers not giving their names, the rude neighbor, etc. But race really seems to play a minimal role in this story and it's frustrating that she's trying to spin it as some sort of racial/police militarization issue rather than what it is: an ignorant (and potentially racist) neighbor who got her in a mess.

+1 for 1Password. I guess it gets no love because it's proprietary, but the security design is public and even when a "flaw" was uncovered a few years ago it was nowhere near this kind of revelation.

I have tried KeePass, but it's just too painful to keep running..especially as a Mac user.

1Password + Dropbox with 2FA makes me sleep a lot better than when I used LastPass.

It doesn't reflect well on either side, to be honest. It's clear all involved have contributed a great deal but all also struggle considerably with communication. Seems to be a trend lately and I'm sure this won't be the last time someone rage quits over a difference of opinion.

I work from home most of the time since I'm about an hour from the office best case and usually double that with traffic. I'm much more efficient at home because it's more comfortable and far less distracting.

I think if people have a hard time getting motivated at home that's a symptom of a larger or unrelated problem.

I had just switched back to Chrome from Firefox because I couldn't find a working mix of add-ons and settings that didn't freak Firefox out. Going to give this a shot. Thanks.