I recently listened to this quote and I'm having trouble deciding whether to buy things unnecessarily or not. The quote is "If you don't buy the things you don't need, soon you will have to sell the things you need."
I think it pretty much means, if you don't buy stuff you don't need to buy, pretty soon you'll realize that a lot of your current needs, you don't actually need and then you really see the real needs. An example of this was when I had cable and netflix, stopped paying for cable and kept netflix cause I thought I need to watch something. No I don't I hardly used it and quickly stopped paying for that as well. Now I just have an internet connection, that's all I really do need but then, I'm sure later on I'll be like, do I really need this? Let's not go down that rabbit hole :D
@@LTT.Official I've never had cable and never will. It's a plain scam. I only have Netflix and only for the kids. Once the kids grow a little older, it's going away, too.
@@MyReviews_karkan The question you have to ask yourself is, 'Do I want to be free of the nine to five?' Like the comment above says, 'You will probably find yourself selling the things you don't need'. This also gives you the freedom to buy the things you do need without having to rob money from the future. Loans and credit cards are just that...robbing money from your future where you will find that you are stuck in the rat race.
Distilled philosophy Sir. Recently I got into this exactly mindset and guess what...I worked on relatively old laptops and creates a lab without spending a penny, free from windows and totally open source: 4 laptop running manjaro, Debian 10, Kaly linux and proxmax. Working on Python and more and now looking at FreeBSD, Arch Linux and Rocky Linux. Happiness and passion are what I got and without getting in debt. I dumped my apple phone and got a baklckberry and Titan Uniherzt. Cheap and fun! Your words are pure distilled truth.
I self host my search engine, cloud suite, office suite, home automation platform, browser homepage, media server, encrypted communications (matrix), server monitoring, and more. I even have installed OpenWrt on my router and installed a recursive DNS server to avoid something like Google or Cloudflare DNS. Now, I need to get off of RUclips and finally figure out how to host an email server which I never expected to be as annoying as it is.
I noticed this problem with Google Hangouts. I would talk about a subject on private messages and start getting ads about it when browsing with ad blockers off. 😜 The IP thing is WAY more problematic though. I used to have multiple facebook profiles and I noticed friends from one being offered to my other profiles and vice versa, even though I had them intentionally NOT linked 😡
Chris, please do a video on self hosting your email. I'm currently experimenting with Helm but also have a synology sitting there that I would like to put to work.. Thanks for your videos!
That's why Craig Wright created Bitcoin and why Brave BAT exists. We have alternative solutions to the current economic model of marketing without privacy. ¡Excellent topic!
I'd like a feature about self hosting/good combination of services for e-mail for my family. Around 5 to 10 users, some more addresses. Getting rid of Pop/IMAP and client-security with 2FA would be my primary goals. I already have a domain and use an old free gsuite, which I want to replace. So usability and security are great at the moment, but privacy is kind of void. How do i raise privacy without buying big time into security nightmares of ancient protocols and non existing contemporary security notifications and account controls?
Does anyone know if a PC with Ubuntu and i5-6500/2x4GB DDR4@2133mhz is useful when it comes to streaming from a PS4? I have absolutely zero idea how Linux or streaming works. I had to switch the OS, because it had the trial version of W10 and the watermark was an issue. I feel like I've done a misservice to my friend :(
@BlackWorm I did install OBS to it and about the c-card he just said "Avermedia" so I'm presuming it's the cheapest available model (GC311). Thank you for your help! I'm sure I'll manage to figure this out eventually. P.S. I'll actually install Ubuntu to my PC as well, so I can get a bit more familiar with it and give some more views to Chris as a byproduct of this little escapade😅
live debt free, or if you cant focus on 'smart debt' i.e House loan only :) spot on about buying useless crap and using 'buy now, pay later' services! - DONT DO IT
so you basicly need two computers and two seperated accounts. to use facebook, youtube, amazon and even Steam and the second one to do your private stuff :0
You not just have to host your own email to get full privacy and security but you also should use PGP encrypted emails only because even if you host your own email server, SMTP and other typical mail protocols are so old that they don't even encrypt anything by default. Even the encryption you can use is not end-to-end encryption from sender to the actual receiver. So please use PGP! If it's too difficult for anyone to setup, just have a look at the PEP project from the PEP foundation. They should have got you covered on most operating systems with most email clients to automatically use PGP by default.
Exactly, they use this data just like everyone else, although they are better at hanging on it, than say a Facebook that is constantly getting hacked lol.
Single greatest tech video on RUclips! You literally covered everything from big tech to human rights and even made time for moral values. Imagine how different the world would be if everyone saw this video. Excellent content, love your channel.
They don't just sell it for marketing, some bend and give data to governments, some sell data to other companies for any other use, which could be malicious, the company selling it doesn't care. On Google photos, when Google says they won't use your data for advertising, they mean that they would use it for everything else other than advertising.
There is no absolute secure service, because the main providers already captured and maintained a monopoly on the global market. Hence Google, Huawei, Facebook, Microsoft, oracle. Check and see who these major corporations help funds. The same open source projects some of us love and enjoyed.
Chris, I love the pragmatism in most of your videos, but this video should've been broken up so you have the time to do a deep dive for us. e.g. Why does it matter if we lose privacy, security, or freedom to an organisation? What're the implications? What are the differences between governments and private organisations?
Yeah, I think each of these topics deserves their own video. Which even the sub topics deserve their own video. Linux phones instead of Android or Apple, Running your own Mail Server, etc.
@@ChrisTitusTech Some android phones have access to really stable privacy respecting and secure custom roms. This is better than Linux on phone, since you don't lose access to most phone apps.
A VPN service is merely a pipe for the VPN provider to survey all your traffic. Many say they don't, but they are the encryptor / decryptor of your traffic.
Dumb youtubers who say "gUyS noRD vpN keeps yoUr PrivAcy, $10 a mOnth" and then people go and say that they "know about computers" while using windows 10 and playing valorang :/
Agreed that having your own email server is better, but between evils, such as gmail and o365, ProtonMail is best, even because it's protected by Swiss laws.
Please revisit Qubes, please. Also, if possible, you take a laptop and video a full install from start to finish? Or, a full install on fast external drive, if possible. Thanks. MarkZ. Is a putz
It's true what this video says,People in games I have played have some how found out about my birth name and I dont even know them;there will always be some one stalking your life no matter what
i stopped getting ads based on things I said as soon as I deleted the FB and other social media apps from my phone, and stuck to using the sites on my phone browser.
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.” ― Socrates “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” ― Aristotle Ty for the video...one here can see the self examination and applaud you for it. Peace.
the Personal bit is indeed very nice, one is happy to see the transformation to something humanly better, as an observer from outside Western Civilization altogether, this is indeed a good dose of thinking, which seems a lot less encouraged nowadays, as for Freedom, you are absolutely correct, look at me, using a Gmail account to write this comment, luckily however, I got rid of Facebook and the totality of it's services in 2009. I personally perceive Freedom as the option to say NO to something, and with people having automatic opt-in to so many things now with no choice of backtracking, the only thing left of freedom is the slogan, luckily I have a completely non connected car in which I can still COMPLETELY disable traction control, trivial yes, but does make the point, also my insurance company hasn't been able to forced any tracking device in my old car either
Trying to achieve total privacy and security in technology is a waste of time for most people with an ounce of common sense and who aren't total conspiracy theorists. The most important part of this video was the last part about being frugal with money and only working the amount you need to get by. The pandemic has highlighted this much more than previously.
You might as well have said don't use Internet at all on any device. If this video was addressed to businesses then I agree with everything but because is not, then just self hosting advice is not the best message. Paying for secure & safe email services like ProtonMail or Tutanota are 2nd place to self hosting. Self hosting means that the user needs to do all the work or pay for it, and give maintenance and back ups. At that point you might as well not have a life.
I constantly hear "don't do it" for self hosting email. Way too much work, even if you know how to do it. Luke Smith did a setup video that I would like to try just for fun, but for now I am using Protonmail (I hated Tutanota's UX) and am (very slowly) phasing out Gmail. Self hosting email from my understanding is not for everyone. How can something like Protonmail not be an improvement over Gmail?
Buy what you need, not what you want. This is what I always say to my friends, family, and my wife. I have income from 3 digits behind comma, until a few digits in front comma, and it doesn't make me crazy to buy something I don't need.
It's amazing how much we can consume. I remember when I had the biggest jump from $90,000 to $120,000 and we simply consumed more. I saved a bit more, but not as much I should have. These days when running my own business it is much easier to save as I have to for Taxes, but also operating expenses, and a multitude of investments. Not only is there the financial ramifications, but also the stress with all the "stuff". Having just what you need, makes me more grateful for the things I do have and I appreciate life much more.
About Email: personally I use GMX (a german service, I live in Germany) They have a "free", a "pro" version (which costs 3€/month) and a "top" version (which costs 5€/month) with the differences being: attachment sizes (20MB, 50MB, 100MB), email space (1GB, 5GB, 10GB), cloud storage (2GB, 7GB, 17GB), you receive only in "free" advertisement email (looking at the content, they don't seem to have a clue about what I am interested in), and "a few" additional services which probably barely anyone uses (like SMS and fax).
Great video, I get quite strong feelings about the VPN marketing going around, yeah there is a use case but there are so much over things that effect Privacy and Security online use of a VPN is such a small part of a bigger issue and using a VPN like a free VPN is still a bit questionable in my mind.
Well. I :heard" Goofle was going to require all content creators to have proof of V-C (Kodona Beeruz Vacuna) to continue uploading. BUT Bully and Mindy got with Jeffy to offer a discount for Amazonian pRime members and Bully offered Winbloze 11 at 50% Off for those with proof. I buzzard whiperated in my earz. :-) Good vid, Dios.
I fully agree with you about your dissertation on freedom and money, I have tried to teach that topic to my boys. The rest of your video is also excellent as usual. Thanks Chris.
If you can't buy a thing outright, just don't buy it. Kinda hard to stick to that, where housing and transportation are concerned _(or is it?)._ But there are people out there financing couches, dining-room tables, cordless drills, all manner of things. Just,...wtf?
Thanks for the advice. Did you survive a suicide while working on daily basis from 7am-5pm on a job you hated? I know a family of mine and many outside the family, gave me the idea that suicidal mindset was prevalent among the genius of big tech companies. I know many never recovered psychologically from extreme anger even years after retiring. Something is badly wrong in that cycle that future will tell.
Good stuff Chris!! Thanks for doing this. I think the concept of Privacy, Security, Freedom which you said should also be taught in school. The future is them. Here's a challenge for you Chris - how would you explain this to a teenager? I can take that video and then show it to my niece and nephews :D
As a private security contractor, security is a multi tier process. Trying to deploy a perfect secure ecosystem from the start is futile. One must accept a stepping process where one defines their own security vulnerabilities. For me and my services, our clients have a physical and digital vulnerability. Deploying the physical solution is quite straight forward. Digital security has to start with decentralizing services from the public cloud. Deploying our own server hosting nextcloud offers our clients an immediate decentralization from Google services and Microsoft services. With nextcloud, one can justify slashing email usage to a bare minimum using encrypted nextcloud as a replacement. The goal is to all but eliminate the need for email as a whole. This takes time and nothing happens overnight. A complete digital security package aims to neutralize as many security vulnerabilities as possible by decentralizing from the public cloud and the multiple 3rd party service providers. Using nextcloud removes the largest vulnerabilities. From here we can continue to grow other self hosted tools to further remove 3rd party services. Nextcloud helps alleviate sacrificing freedom for security. There really is no downside. In fact it's liberating. For the life of me I can't figure out why you and others don't bring this up when discussing communications security.
Hi, you've done many videos on how to turn off telemetry in W10, but you've done zero videos monitoring the traffic after you've den that. We want to know if shutup10 really works. Maybe wireshark is a suitable tool. Is it still the service DiagTrack that does all the telemetry, is there a way to completely remove it?
Well said about the money situation. The larger annual income I pulled in the more I spent on stuff i really didn't need. As far as keeping up with the Jones, please who cares. Minimal approach is my philosophy and talk about content, more content than Ive experienced. like the channel!
Speculation on my part as a marketing and communications person: control vs convenience is the underlying, if rarely touched on, aspect of computing. Big tech's advertising almost always puts emphasis on convenience, and rarely on control (Apple offering iPhone users transparency on what Apps are tracking users is a rare but welcome, if somewhat belated move imo). Control implies inconvenience, time investment, and switching costs (whether said cost is financial or otherwise) - even if this is untrue; I find the terminal and vim far more convenient than having a million windows of MS Word open for instance - if you had told me a year ago this would be the case, I'd have laughed. But that's the power of perception: the view that anything outside big tech as inherently inconvenient will continue to fester. The marketing logic is fairly straightforward in strategy and execution too: all of Big Tech can agree to fight on the battlefield of convenience, pretending control doesn't exist. To most non-tech users, the idea of control then looks, at best, eccentric and, at worse, a waste of time. I've lost count of the the number of times I hear some of RUclips's tech channels condescendingly view the time it takes for users to feel comfortable on Linux as the result of people who don't value their time. Apple is the best at it because every new product comes with a bullet point list of conveniences. FOSS users prefer control, but we are too small and fragmented to mount a sustained marketing pitch to non-tech users over a few years where the emphasis on the marketing is on control. Great video as usual, Chris. Looking forward to the tutorial on setting up personal emails.
This would be a perfect video if you edit out the email conversation part. You left us with no real alternative. You didn't really explained why YOU dislike Protonmail and alternatives. There was no point in that segment.
Very good video. I think pointing out the cost of "free" services is important. It's fine if you want don't want tracking with these sites, but lets not pretend like that idea is all that compatible with having the service being free, you're not going to get something for nothing. They are businesses, they are there to make money. I think a basic solution would be a paid version of the site with enhanced privacy options that would be verified by some third party entity. I know a lot of people would be against this because they think the service should be free, but alluded to, the service was never free, you just didn't know you were paying.
Devices don't listen to you. I don't know why this keeps getting said but they have so much data on you they're literately zero reason to access the microphone.
Yes, people try to strive for privacy because it is very important to think twice when giving yourself away. In crypto, that is manifested in a high interest of users in Bitcoinmix or other coin join services, privacy coins and many others...
@@CorJanvanZwol Could be wrong but I think ungoogled chromium has the same functionality of chrome but doesn't have the same spyware from google. They most likely have more ways to track you though.
bro lets say from yesteday until today i am watching just your videos..in brave browser also .the thing i like about you ..i dont heard any music in your videos 👍👍 the other thing i start to learn from you the thing i want !!
Having been brought up in a third world country has given me a great deal of modesty and minimalism. I know what I need, I'll go buy it whenever I really need it. I don't care how much big tech tracks and sells my personal data to advertisers, the seller WILL make money (in exchange of me using their product for free), and that's fine, but the buyer (advertisers) will never make a penny off of me. First, I have ads blocked everywhere in my life. Second, I never see an ad (if I ever do) then go "yeah, this looks good, let me go buy it". It's a win win situation for me.
Hi Chris. Um do you have eny scripts to conoletely restore deploated stuff? Cuz my laptop doing some strange stuff. I wanna see if restoring the deploat helps
Hey Chris, so impressed with you sharing about downsizing possessions and spending, living within your means is so important. Living smartly and realizing that more possessions does not equal more happyness. Keep up the good work.
Yeah, that is a sure fire way to get lost, running for the money, getting into debt - just not worth it. Do something you enjoy, make money out of it and live a lifestyle that you are happy with.
When you talk about software and freedom, what do you mean? Do you mean that you kan be free of the software or the freedom to use the software like you want? Freedom in irld and software are two diff. things.
I bought my first smartphone in 2014 - I still use it! However, I rooted it and put Lineage OS to bring back the batter power. The sole reason I'd change phones it would be for a better camera. Don't be a "consumer" of marketing.
I recently listened to this quote and I'm having trouble deciding whether to buy things unnecessarily or not.
The quote is "If you don't buy the things you don't need, soon you will have to sell the things you need."
I think it pretty much means, if you don't buy stuff you don't need to buy, pretty soon you'll realize that a lot of your current needs, you don't actually need and then you really see the real needs. An example of this was when I had cable and netflix, stopped paying for cable and kept netflix cause I thought I need to watch something. No I don't I hardly used it and quickly stopped paying for that as well. Now I just have an internet connection, that's all I really do need but then, I'm sure later on I'll be like, do I really need this? Let's not go down that rabbit hole :D
@@LTT.Official I've never had cable and never will. It's a plain scam. I only have Netflix and only for the kids. Once the kids grow a little older, it's going away, too.
@@MyReviews_karkan The question you have to ask yourself is, 'Do I want to be free of the nine to five?' Like the comment above says, 'You will probably find yourself selling the things you don't need'. This also gives you the freedom to buy the things you do need without having to rob money from the future. Loans and credit cards are just that...robbing money from your future where you will find that you are stuck in the rat race.
Are you sure you don't mean the Warren Buffett quote “If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need”?
@@wim8702 That makes a way more sense. The OP's quote was meaningless.
Dude, You hit so many points that were spot on. Thanks for the updates on the operating systems and the available products.
"Money can equal freedom and also can equal a prison".
This will be my new mantra
Too much money is definitely prison. I think $70k a year is the sweet spot to live a happy life.
great hearing your life experience in that last part of the video. def will help me a lot as someone in low 20's
Proton... no... how could you thumbs down Proton!
Distilled philosophy Sir. Recently I got into this exactly mindset and guess what...I worked on relatively old laptops and creates a lab without spending a penny, free from windows and totally open source: 4 laptop running manjaro, Debian 10, Kaly linux and proxmax. Working on Python and more and now looking at FreeBSD, Arch Linux and Rocky Linux. Happiness and passion are what I got and without getting in debt. I dumped my apple phone and got a baklckberry and Titan Uniherzt. Cheap and fun! Your words are pure distilled truth.
I self host my search engine, cloud suite, office suite, home automation platform, browser homepage, media server, encrypted communications (matrix), server monitoring, and more. I even have installed OpenWrt on my router and installed a recursive DNS server to avoid something like Google or Cloudflare DNS. Now, I need to get off of RUclips and finally figure out how to host an email server which I never expected to be as annoying as it is.
I noticed this problem with Google Hangouts. I would talk about a subject on private messages and start getting ads about it when browsing with ad blockers off. 😜
The IP thing is WAY more problematic though. I used to have multiple facebook profiles and I noticed friends from one being offered to my other profiles and vice versa, even though I had them intentionally NOT linked 😡
Chris, please do a video on self hosting your email. I'm currently experimenting with Helm but also have a synology sitting there that I would like to put to work.. Thanks for your videos!
Great content.
"moot" - learning new stuff every day
Great Vid!! Keep'em coming...
Not many people understand that over-consumption is a prison. You have to work more to buy more useless things... No, thanks!
Thank you, Chris.
Great, very important topic!
That's why Craig Wright created Bitcoin and why Brave BAT exists. We have alternative solutions to the current economic model of marketing without privacy. ¡Excellent topic!
i care more about privacy than my mom does but i'm 16 so i don't really have a choice
please make a samsung phone debloater video
where do u get ur wallpapers for ur dekstop
I'd like a feature about self hosting/good combination of services for e-mail for my family. Around 5 to 10 users, some more addresses. Getting rid of Pop/IMAP and client-security with 2FA would be my primary goals. I already have a domain and use an old free gsuite, which I want to replace. So usability and security are great at the moment, but privacy is kind of void. How do i raise privacy without buying big time into security nightmares of ancient protocols and non existing contemporary security notifications and account controls?
ya money can be a double edged sword, and it's hard to watch my friends that struggle with this concept of saving money
THAT'S SO TRUE
(un)fortunately, I work for Google.
me too
Does anyone know if a PC with Ubuntu and i5-6500/2x4GB DDR4@2133mhz is useful when it comes to streaming from a PS4? I have absolutely zero idea how Linux or streaming works. I had to switch the OS, because it had the trial version of W10 and the watermark was an issue. I feel like I've done a misservice to my friend :(
Yes it is ! I've used Remote Play on a i5-3550 which is 3 generations older than that.
@BlackWorm I did install OBS to it and about the c-card he just said "Avermedia" so I'm presuming it's the cheapest available model (GC311). Thank you for your help! I'm sure I'll manage to figure this out eventually.
P.S. I'll actually install Ubuntu to my PC as well, so I can get a bit more familiar with it and give some more views to Chris as a byproduct of this little escapade😅
How to host emails if your provider is blocking ports (example à: 25 ) ? ...
live debt free, or if you cant focus on 'smart debt' i.e House loan only :) spot on about buying useless crap and using 'buy now, pay later' services! - DONT DO IT
Can you Show more Privacy and security with Windows 10 and update Debloating. Or are you waiting for 21h1 release?
so you basicly need two computers and two seperated accounts. to use facebook, youtube, amazon and even Steam and the second one to do your private stuff :0
Based
This video was pretty moot tbh
You not just have to host your own email to get full privacy and security but you also should use PGP encrypted emails only because even if you host your own email server, SMTP and other typical mail protocols are so old that they don't even encrypt anything by default. Even the encryption you can use is not end-to-end encryption from sender to the actual receiver. So please use PGP! If it's too difficult for anyone to setup, just have a look at the PEP project from the PEP foundation. They should have got you covered on most operating systems with most email clients to automatically use PGP by default.
Everyone thinks apple is secure and private... But little do they know Apple Mines data just as much as Facebook and Google.
Exactly, they use this data just like everyone else, although they are better at hanging on it, than say a Facebook that is constantly getting hacked lol.
Well maybe, but it is not the source of their revenue, like with Google and recently Microsoft.
@@mauricemaths lmfao yeah it is. They make billions data for their default search and default Apple apps.
@@motoryzen whoops...damn autocorrect.
@Ben it isnt even that...apple isnt even transparent about what they collect....we only know that because apple forgot to encrypt the data.
Single greatest tech video on RUclips! You literally covered everything from big tech to human rights and even made time for moral values. Imagine how different the world would be if everyone saw this video. Excellent content, love your channel.
Good video like ever, I agree with you, true freedom begins when each day you need less than before
Rule #1: If you're not paying for a product or service, you ARE the product.
You tell em digital sparky lol except for open source github projects lol be careful I’m the product in metasploit
I think you are the product anyway these days
FOSS programs: hold my beer
Rule #2: If you're paying for a product there's still a good chance you're the product.
Not always. FOSS programs are the exception.
Money and freedom section is just awesome! Wish you could develop this in more full video
It was awesome, but I'm sure there's much more in-depth videos out there by people in the know rather than relying on a tech guy to tell you about it.
They don't just sell it for marketing, some bend and give data to governments, some sell data to other companies for any other use, which could be malicious, the company selling it doesn't care.
On Google photos, when Google says they won't use your data for advertising, they mean that they would use it for everything else other than advertising.
I think all that stuff they're saying is not true. Apple has a fake-privacy-policy site. It's hard to fine the TEXT, LEGAL PRIVACY POLICY!
Microsoft writes that their privacy policy is ignored if they want to 'save lifes'. Really sketchy.
Why do you not like protonmail?
There is no absolute secure service, because the main providers already captured and maintained a monopoly on the global market. Hence Google, Huawei, Facebook, Microsoft, oracle. Check and see who these major corporations help funds. The same open source projects some of us love and enjoyed.
Chris, I love the pragmatism in most of your videos, but this video should've been broken up so you have the time to do a deep dive for us. e.g. Why does it matter if we lose privacy, security, or freedom to an organisation? What're the implications? What are the differences between governments and private organisations?
Yeah, I think each of these topics deserves their own video. Which even the sub topics deserve their own video. Linux phones instead of Android or Apple, Running your own Mail Server, etc.
@@ChrisTitusTech Some android phones have access to really stable privacy respecting and secure custom roms. This is better than Linux on phone, since you don't lose access to most phone apps.
A VPN service is merely a pipe for the VPN provider to survey all your traffic. Many say they don't, but they are the encryptor / decryptor of your traffic.
Rob Braxman Tech anyone?
Rob does a pretty good job. We have a few different view points about phones and VPNs.
Yup
Can't agree completely with him about his view point on vpns
@@ChrisTitusTech Thank you Chris for bringing this topic up as it just shows how data is permanent and that privacy is an afterthought
Dumb youtubers who say "gUyS noRD vpN keeps yoUr PrivAcy, $10 a mOnth" and then people go and say that they "know about computers" while using windows 10 and playing valorang :/
Agreed that having your own email server is better, but between evils, such as gmail and o365, ProtonMail is best, even because it's protected by Swiss laws.
Please revisit Qubes, please. Also, if possible, you take a laptop and video a full install from start to finish? Or, a full install on fast external drive, if possible. Thanks. MarkZ. Is a putz
Use European services. Privacy laws in the US are horrible. Swiss, German and French are the best.
I have been out for a while and I have to say: The video quality has improved A LOT! well done Chris! (and the content as great as usual)
I tried the pinephone ran it for 30 days, but the convenience of google maps is what dragged me back to android.
It's true what this video says,People in games I have played have some how found out about my birth name and I dont even know them;there will always be some one stalking your life no matter what
Great advice and great video thanks Chris. Less is better ;)
Lie. Data mining would be rendered pointless if most people actively lie on half the things they say or search.
i stopped getting ads based on things I said as soon as I deleted the FB and other social media apps from my phone, and stuck to using the sites on my phone browser.
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.”
― Socrates
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
― Aristotle
Ty for the video...one here can see the self examination and applaud you for it. Peace.
Dude I actually enjoyed these quotes thanks!
These quotes have served me well in life.
Another quote which also applies to the subject of this video: "There is no knowledge that is not power." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excuse me, Chris! Not MS nor Apple are free!!! so.....
Sure 100% security is attainable on a pc. It involves a pair of scisors
and just like my man Linus Torvalds once said: Computers are like air conditioners ;they become useless when you open windows
Well you can always give false information if you want privacy
the Personal bit is indeed very nice, one is happy to see the transformation to something humanly better, as an observer from outside Western Civilization altogether, this is indeed a good dose of thinking, which seems a lot less encouraged nowadays, as for Freedom, you are absolutely correct, look at me, using a Gmail account to write this comment, luckily however, I got rid of Facebook and the totality of it's services in 2009.
I personally perceive Freedom as the option to say NO to something, and with people having automatic opt-in to so many things now with no choice of backtracking, the only thing left of freedom is the slogan, luckily I have a completely non connected car in which I can still COMPLETELY disable traction control, trivial yes, but does make the point, also my insurance company hasn't been able to forced any tracking device in my old car either
Trying to achieve total privacy and security in technology is a waste of time for most people with an ounce of common sense and who aren't total conspiracy theorists. The most important part of this video was the last part about being frugal with money and only working the amount you need to get by. The pandemic has highlighted this much more than previously.
You might as well have said don't use Internet at all on any device. If this video was addressed to businesses then I agree with everything but because is not, then just self hosting advice is not the best message. Paying for secure & safe email services like ProtonMail or Tutanota are 2nd place to self hosting.
Self hosting means that the user needs to do all the work or pay for it, and give maintenance and back ups. At that point you might as well not have a life.
I constantly hear "don't do it" for self hosting email. Way too much work, even if you know how to do it. Luke Smith did a setup video that I would like to try just for fun, but for now I am using Protonmail (I hated Tutanota's UX) and am (very slowly) phasing out Gmail. Self hosting email from my understanding is not for everyone. How can something like Protonmail not be an improvement over Gmail?
What is your recommendation regarding Containers in Mozilla Firefox for web browsing?
They worth nothing, unless you use uBlock Origin and delete all your cookies when the page closes.
and yet countless youtubers are slaves to nord vpn or express vpn, commercial VPN's and some of them even leak.
Security and privacy are impossible with proprietary software (without source code).
Buy what you need, not what you want.
This is what I always say to my friends, family, and my wife.
I have income from 3 digits behind comma, until a few digits in front comma, and it doesn't make me crazy to buy something I don't need.
It's amazing how much we can consume. I remember when I had the biggest jump from $90,000 to $120,000 and we simply consumed more. I saved a bit more, but not as much I should have.
These days when running my own business it is much easier to save as I have to for Taxes, but also operating expenses, and a multitude of investments.
Not only is there the financial ramifications, but also the stress with all the "stuff". Having just what you need, makes me more grateful for the things I do have and I appreciate life much more.
@@ChrisTitusTech You explained everything, Chris.
And I love your previous video about investment.
The only good VPN is the one you set it up by yourself.
werid twist at the end but i totally agree!
About Email:
personally I use GMX (a german service, I live in Germany)
They have a "free", a "pro" version (which costs 3€/month) and a "top" version (which costs 5€/month) with the differences being: attachment sizes (20MB, 50MB, 100MB), email space (1GB, 5GB, 10GB), cloud storage (2GB, 7GB, 17GB), you receive only in "free" advertisement email (looking at the content, they don't seem to have a clue about what I am interested in), and "a few" additional services which probably barely anyone uses (like SMS and fax).
Great video, I get quite strong feelings about the VPN marketing going around, yeah there is a use case but there are so much over things that effect Privacy and Security online use of a VPN is such a small part of a bigger issue and using a VPN like a free VPN is still a bit questionable in my mind.
Well. I :heard" Goofle was going to require all content creators to have proof of V-C (Kodona Beeruz Vacuna) to continue uploading. BUT Bully and Mindy got with Jeffy to offer a discount for Amazonian pRime members and Bully offered Winbloze 11 at 50% Off for those with proof.
I buzzard whiperated in my earz. :-) Good vid, Dios.
very interested in the mail plus thing
"... take privacy for payment..." in exchange for 'free' items. WELL put.
A BIG hello from the colony within the 5eyes ;-)
I fully agree with you about your dissertation on freedom and money, I have tried to teach that topic to my boys. The rest of your video is also excellent as usual. Thanks Chris.
If you can't buy a thing outright, just don't buy it. Kinda hard to stick to that, where housing and transportation are concerned _(or is it?)._ But there are people out there financing couches, dining-room tables, cordless drills, all manner of things. Just,...wtf?
Thanks for the advice. Did you survive a suicide while working on daily basis from 7am-5pm on a job you hated? I know a family of mine and many outside the family, gave me the idea that suicidal mindset was prevalent among the genius of big tech companies. I know many never recovered psychologically from extreme anger even years after retiring. Something is badly wrong in that cycle that future will tell.
Good stuff Chris!! Thanks for doing this.
I think the concept of Privacy, Security, Freedom which you said should also be taught in school. The future is them. Here's a challenge for you Chris - how would you explain this to a teenager? I can take that video and then show it to my niece and nephews :D
As a private security contractor, security is a multi tier process. Trying to deploy a perfect secure ecosystem from the start is futile. One must accept a stepping process where one defines their own security vulnerabilities. For me and my services, our clients have a physical and digital vulnerability. Deploying the physical solution is quite straight forward. Digital security has to start with decentralizing services from the public cloud. Deploying our own server hosting nextcloud offers our clients an immediate decentralization from Google services and Microsoft services. With nextcloud, one can justify slashing email usage to a bare minimum using encrypted nextcloud as a replacement.
The goal is to all but eliminate the need for email as a whole. This takes time and nothing happens overnight. A complete digital security package aims to neutralize as many security vulnerabilities as possible by decentralizing from the public cloud and the multiple 3rd party service providers. Using nextcloud removes the largest vulnerabilities. From here we can continue to grow other self hosted tools to further remove 3rd party services.
Nextcloud helps alleviate sacrificing freedom for security. There really is no downside. In fact it's liberating. For the life of me I can't figure out why you and others don't bring this up when discussing communications security.
you lost me when you said the 2 words "Alt Right"
wait why?
Hi, you've done many videos on how to turn off telemetry in W10, but you've done zero videos monitoring the traffic after you've den that. We want to know if shutup10 really works. Maybe wireshark is a suitable tool. Is it still the service DiagTrack that does all the telemetry, is there a way to completely remove it?
Social Media Network: If you’re not paying for the product, you’re the product.
Signal Messenger: Say hello to your privacy.
Well said about the money situation. The larger annual income I pulled in the more I spent on stuff i really didn't need. As far as keeping up with the Jones, please who cares. Minimal approach is my philosophy and talk about content, more content than Ive experienced. like the channel!
Have you heard of the oxen network if so I would like to know what you think about them and there products
Speculation on my part as a marketing and communications person: control vs convenience is the underlying, if rarely touched on, aspect of computing. Big tech's advertising almost always puts emphasis on convenience, and rarely on control (Apple offering iPhone users transparency on what Apps are tracking users is a rare but welcome, if somewhat belated move imo).
Control implies inconvenience, time investment, and switching costs (whether said cost is financial or otherwise) - even if this is untrue; I find the terminal and vim far more convenient than having a million windows of MS Word open for instance - if you had told me a year ago this would be the case, I'd have laughed. But that's the power of perception: the view that anything outside big tech as inherently inconvenient will continue to fester.
The marketing logic is fairly straightforward in strategy and execution too: all of Big Tech can agree to fight on the battlefield of convenience, pretending control doesn't exist. To most non-tech users, the idea of control then looks, at best, eccentric and, at worse, a waste of time. I've lost count of the the number of times I hear some of RUclips's tech channels condescendingly view the time it takes for users to feel comfortable on Linux as the result of people who don't value their time.
Apple is the best at it because every new product comes with a bullet point list of conveniences.
FOSS users prefer control, but we are too small and fragmented to mount a sustained marketing pitch to non-tech users over a few years where the emphasis on the marketing is on control.
Great video as usual, Chris. Looking forward to the tutorial on setting up personal emails.
This would be a perfect video if you edit out the email conversation part.
You left us with no real alternative. You didn't really explained why YOU dislike Protonmail and alternatives. There was no point in that segment.
Very good video. I think pointing out the cost of "free" services is important. It's fine if you want don't want tracking with these sites, but lets not pretend like that idea is all that compatible with having the service being free, you're not going to get something for nothing. They are businesses, they are there to make money.
I think a basic solution would be a paid version of the site with enhanced privacy options that would be verified by some third party entity. I know a lot of people would be against this because they think the service should be free, but alluded to, the service was never free, you just didn't know you were paying.
Your last point on money and freedom really hit home. Thank you for all you do Chris 🙌
Hey, Chris Titus ...
In two videos you said let's talk about ....
And I don't think it is the only two. Maybe you're saying this a little too much.
Devices don't listen to you. I don't know why this keeps getting said but they have so much data on you they're literately zero reason to access the microphone.
Yes, people try to strive for privacy because it is very important to think twice when giving yourself away. In crypto, that is manifested in a high interest of users in Bitcoinmix or other coin join services, privacy coins and many others...
What about ChromeOS? Linux, but still Google....
They have added their crap on top of Linux, isn't that obvious? It isn't safe any way.
@@SpaceTimeBeing_ i do like the functionality of ChromeOS. Do you know a good alternative to ChromeOS?
@@CorJanvanZwol Could be wrong but I think ungoogled chromium has the same functionality of chrome but doesn't have the same spyware from google. They most likely have more ways to track you though.
So now we know why Chris is such a cheapass when he buys his private PC-hardware. :p
Haha YES!
bro lets say from yesteday until today i am watching just your videos..in brave browser also .the thing i like about you ..i dont heard any music in your videos 👍👍 the other thing
i start to learn from you the thing i want !!
Having been brought up in a third world country has given me a great deal of modesty and minimalism. I know what I need, I'll go buy it whenever I really need it. I don't care how much big tech tracks and sells my personal data to advertisers, the seller WILL make money (in exchange of me using their product for free), and that's fine, but the buyer (advertisers) will never make a penny off of me. First, I have ads blocked everywhere in my life. Second, I never see an ad (if I ever do) then go "yeah, this looks good, let me go buy it". It's a win win situation for me.
Hi Chris. Um do you have eny scripts to conoletely restore deploated stuff? Cuz my laptop doing some strange stuff. I wanna see if restoring the deploat helps
Hey Chris, so impressed with you sharing about downsizing possessions and spending, living within your means is so important. Living smartly and realizing that more possessions does not equal more happyness. Keep up the good work.
Yeah, that is a sure fire way to get lost, running for the money, getting into debt - just not worth it. Do something you enjoy, make money out of it and live a lifestyle that you are happy with.
When you talk about software and freedom, what do you mean? Do you mean that you kan be free of the software or the freedom to use the software like you want? Freedom in irld and software are two diff. things.
I bought my first smartphone in 2014 - I still use it! However, I rooted it and put Lineage OS to bring back the batter power. The sole reason I'd change phones it would be for a better camera. Don't be a "consumer" of marketing.
Well said, wants and needs, simple life, freedom.....most importantly Happiness!
Great and important content. 2016 I migrated from Win to Mac 2021/22 I migrate from Mac to Linux hopefully also phone. 🤠
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