True, it became an international citizen like all libre software. Im just proud that it was born in Mexico, in Latin America not much public recognition is had for local software. There’s a perception that most services are from abroad. Thats why i phrased the original post title like that (cross posted). More like a “if it had a nationality, it would be mexican” kinda thing.

This just explains why the +Calls & SMS plans are necessary (avoid local networks that track everything and are backdoors). I think the high price may be due to high cost of calling infrastructure or access to functional numbers?

and Federico Mena, both have cool contributions to libre software.

It depends on the country. I’m looking into a plan with 10gb for 30 days, priced at $13usd.

Theres only one plan for calls & sms, which is $80usd/month. I wonder why so expensive.

yeah Audile is awesome

Yeah it’s most likely that! Thanks

I do use dual boot, but still have Winboat on the Linux side because some windows specific apps that aren’t demanding. The ones that are demanding in performance are the ones that I use on Windows natively.

weird

Its not showing after reboot. I wanted to trace it back but theres no trace, hmm

Seemed to be /proc/4212 but its gone after I killed the process.

Thanks, this is useful info. It doesnt appear to be restarting itself after I killed the process. Is this a good sign?

I think I solved it? I ran

sudo kill -9 <PID>

(PID being 4212 in my case)

Memory usage is back to normal afer a reboot, seems fine!

yeah thats what i thought :/ how tf do i get rid of this?

Try this! Fusion360 for Linux - project by Cryinkfly. I’ve seen it work for some people but I havent gotten it to work well for me.

i like Nobara (basically Fedora with Nvidia drivers out of the box). Compare the looks and workflow of Desktop Environments (Gnome, Kde, etc) to see which fits best for you. To install, watch a yt tutorial.

Signal is great, but it is centralized. Session messenger is a great example of decentralizes e2ee messaging.

telegram doesnt encrypt by default, its a hidden feature. i wouldnt be too sure about iMessage, i believe E2EE is a bare minimum for everyone.

if you could add Ublock origin it would be awesome

I have found that even when people are conscious of the “technocratic & surveillance” state of the world, they still dont change their habits. Just like “this sucks” but they dont bother on looking for alternatives.

Even when I tell them about E2EE services, or the fediverse, they’re like “that sounds awesome”, but they never try it. Once I had a friend try Pixelfed and they loved it! I was so happy hehe but it goes stale after a few days, since other friends didnt switch. But were both telling others to switch sometimes.

My family uses Life360 for safety or emergencies, and I managed to switch them over to Paralino. It was all working seamlessly until they suddenly decided they wanted to go back, for whatever reason. I don’t know what it was, they wouldnt say, but it frustrates me that they would prefer giving out all out location info in rreal time to a company that has had many breaches and has sold such data, compared to a small one that can’t even access such data, and its just a few bucks. Idunno.

Ironfox & Vanadium as main search, and Tor as the default, for opening links.