Nør for military communication. Just for public info

There is a reason the Russian government allow the use of it and even let their military use it - and it is not due to security! They have a backdoor into the chats and UAE it actively for listening in on things and spreading propaganda and disinformation.

You might think that this is different with apple - it is not.

What do you mean? This service from google is for android devices and hence google devices.

This is what apple has done for years but nobody complainted

Slack is crap and matter most has mimicked all its worst parts.

I need it for normal desktop use. Email, coding, browsing (no gaming)

I need it to be completely without fans due to the location where I need it.

Yes i would say 1000-1200euro tops for the budget with option to add more ram later. Would you think i3 is enough? I am not too familiar with the newer generations

Even having it there tells le that privacy is not a primary focus.

What a joke - calling itself privacy first with one hand while offering openAI integration with the other

+1 for Joplin. Works really great and has some good plugins if you need to extend it.

Nextcloud

Switched a long time ago - it’s just soooo much easier and I never have any problems

Want privacy? Don’t play games with internet requirements. It’s that easy. All of the other games are sucking whatever info they can get their hands on. It is not about anticheat - it is about money and data=money

I would never trust telegram. The company behind it is mostly Russian scammers. I would use the opensource alternative to signal called Molly

Selfhosted mail-in-a-box solution. Easy to maintain and configure.

• It just works

But that just won’t solve their privacy issues. The apple eco system is not privacy friendly at all, so why act like it is and let people continue to do stupid thing when they want privacy?

It’s Kubultu with drivers and a wallpaper.

Just leave the apple anti privacy ecosystem.