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Mark Alexander's avatar

I made the leap to Linux in 1995, back when it was a bit of a challenge to get things running. Nowadays there are plenty of user-friendly distributions, like Linux Mint, that novices should be able to install and use.

Ben Rubin's avatar

I played around with a couple last year, need to get properly stuck into it

Ian Vaughan's avatar

Great article. You should look at Start9 - they are trying to make it easy for people to be self-sovereign and have a home server rather than use cloud services. StartOS includes a packaged up Element service too.

Ben Rubin's avatar

Thanks Ian I will take a look

Flowie Georgiou's avatar

Ben what is your opinion on the appointment of the new wef member CEO at Twitter?

Ben Rubin's avatar

just did a short video on this :) thanks for your question Flowie

Flowie Georgiou's avatar

yes i watched it - thanks for doing it - so helpful. im pushing you with all my network as i think youre on it! i am a retired nhs director - left in 2013 when i refused to comply…

so loved your delingpole interview.

huge huge thanks to you for your strength , your intellect, your determination and your humility.

so impressed

keep it going!!!

Scottish Unity Edinburgh Group's avatar

Great summary, thanks. Would add two more

- Messaging: Session app. Extremely good anonymous E2EE both mobile and desktop

- Phone: GrapheneOS. Grab a cheap old Pixel phone and install this OS. Very good control of more or less all data leakage. There's a French company sells something like this (I think IODE?), but this is very easy to install, and a free download

Ben Rubin's avatar

thanks will check those out!

Robert Harvey's avatar

Excellent article, many thanks.

Ben Rubin's avatar

thanks for reading Robert

Ben H's avatar

This reminds me of a bbc documentary from 6 years ago (Aug 2017) called:

The Disruptors / Secrets of Silicon Valley - presented by Jamie Bartlett

Here it is, 2 episodes:

Ep1: https://peertube.fr/videos/watch/43b4145f-503c-4ad7-b94a-aa86319db532

Ep2: https://peertube.fr/videos/watch/a6c6feda-780d-40c3-8062-62cab26f0fe9

They aren't too shy on their plans, its the general public who doesn't seem to care.