Changing the state of privacy starts with changing how we talk about things. Stop using anti-privacy language, here's a guide 👇
from afporritt1001@lemmy.today to degoogle@lemmy.ml on 15 Apr 17:20
https://lemmy.today/post/51232757

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randomname@lemmy.org on 15 Apr 18:04 next collapse

Proton advertisement.

Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Apr 18:07 next collapse

Yeah, language doesn’t work like that.

thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Apr 18:22 next collapse

Gotta go home and crack a few linuxes

TIN@feddit.uk on 15 Apr 18:25 next collapse

Linuces

thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Apr 19:01 next collapse

Silly me, I forgot the grammatical plural of Linux. Damn it.

illi@piefed.social on 15 Apr 19:44 next collapse

Not Linuxi?

lulungomeena_burbclave@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 Apr 21:33 collapse

Linuxen.

thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Apr 01:31 collapse

Apparently Linuces is Latin for multiple Torvalds’s

mech@feddit.org on 15 Apr 19:46 collapse

Linopodes

Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk on 15 Apr 22:33 next collapse

Hello fellow linuxahoic

calidris@hexbear.net on 16 Apr 06:32 collapse

Don’t forget to pop some kernels when you’re done.

LLMhater1312@piefed.social on 15 Apr 18:32 next collapse

Its been so hard to stop saying google it but im getting there, they really got us good with their branding brain worm

mech@feddit.org on 15 Apr 19:48 next collapse

“Could you DuckDuckGo that for me?” just doesn’t work the same.

pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works on 15 Apr 20:13 collapse

“Hey, can you Duck around and find out?”

zikzak025@lemmy.world on 15 Apr 21:34 collapse

That really needs to be their next PR campaign.

zikzak025@lemmy.world on 15 Apr 20:17 next collapse

At the same time, Google hates people using their name generically for web searching because it risks them losing the trademark.

So I guess I am conflicted, because I hate to acknowledge Google more than I need to, but would love to see the term become meaningless.

Manalith@midwest.social on 15 Apr 21:23 collapse

I use DuckDuckGo but say Google for this exact reason. If I’m talking to someone I actually like I usually elaborate to say “Google isn’t the search engine I actually use because it’s sus, but you know what I mean”

eodur@piefed.social on 15 Apr 23:30 next collapse

Pretty sure “to google” means to search for something and get nothing but ads, bad answers, and frustration now. Dunno why anyone would want that.

Or maybe it means “to create a cool product then kill it while it’s still popular.”

comfy@lemmy.ml on 16 Apr 00:55 collapse

Luckily I find it pretty easy to avoid using brand names and just use the plain old verb.

Search it for me. Look it up. Message me. Send it to me, I’ll send this back to you. Set up a call, a meeting, a video call.

chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de on 15 Apr 19:04 next collapse

Proton Meet? lol

Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk on 15 Apr 22:15 collapse

Cups and string ftw

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 15 Apr 19:12 next collapse

installing apps instead of sIdEloADing please

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip on 15 Apr 19:31 next collapse

Hush! Behave you subversive element! Only evil people won’t use official appstores!

Agent641@lemmy.world on 15 Apr 20:13 collapse

Using snap or Flatpack?

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 15 Apr 20:24 next collapse

fuck snaps, flatpak is my bae.

ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml on 16 Apr 18:39 collapse

make install

IratePirate@feddit.org on 15 Apr 19:18 next collapse

This is a joke… right? Right?

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip on 15 Apr 19:31 next collapse

Has to be…right?

OldChicoAle@lemmy.world on 15 Apr 19:48 collapse

I mean if you’re not serious enough, sure /jk

illi@piefed.social on 15 Apr 19:46 collapse

Judging by the last part… yeah. But also, there is something to it.

merc@sh.itjust.works on 15 Apr 19:50 next collapse

Do people not know how to say “this is my email address” anymore?

HubertManne@piefed.social on 15 Apr 20:03 next collapse

as som have mentioned. I call email, email. And I call video conferencing video conferencing and would say hop on a conference call or just call. I mean many people dial in. Video is just standard now but they used to be done with just phones. I usually say the message app used as at a workplace its whatever they use. Open some windows is talking about gui windows not ms windows. I don’t get the alternative thing at all. Its like that thing with ms not being able to trademark windows because windows is a common word. you say windows don’t let ms own that trump. I do say google sometimes for search and that is bad but I often say search or look it up. I just need to stop saying google sometimes.

pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works on 16 Apr 17:05 collapse

Open some windows is talking about gui windows not ms windows. I don’t get the alternative thing at all. Its like that thing with ms not being able to trademark windows because windows is a common word.

I’m pretty sure that in this specific context, it’s actually referring to the physical windows that you would crack to let in some fresh air. I’m also pretty sure that this post was a joke, LOL.

HubertManne@piefed.social on 16 Apr 18:25 collapse

ah, getting the last bit was likely key to realizing it.

pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works on 15 Apr 20:13 next collapse

Had me going until “Could you crack a Linux?”

RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works on 15 Apr 20:48 next collapse

What the fuck is wrong with just saying email? It’s been around for decades.

If someone said to me “Could you crack a Linux” I would walk away slowly and avoid eye contact.

Fmstrat@lemmy.world on 22 Apr 12:18 collapse

Because this is a Proton Ad.

RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works on 22 Apr 12:38 collapse

Could be.

thermogel@lemmy.ml on 15 Apr 20:57 next collapse

Instead, lets simplify: Search, Message, Email, Video Call… wtf is the last one

Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk on 15 Apr 22:14 next collapse

What the fuck is this?

anothermember@feddit.uk on 16 Apr 00:07 next collapse

Would be better if this had serious suggestions. But to add a serious one, please say something like “content blocker” instead of “adblocker”; you’re not freeloading by blocking ads, you’re choosing to not connect to unwanted privacy-hostile content with your computer and internet connection, as you should.

BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 16 Apr 00:14 next collapse

I could really go for some ice cold Linux right now.

No1@aussie.zone on 16 Apr 00:18 next collapse

It would be safer if we discussed.this using encryption:

1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF

OK?

nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de on 16 Apr 00:59 next collapse

Please provide your public key.

No1@aussie.zone on 16 Apr 01:07 collapse

Oh, sorry, I lost that with my bitcoin wallet in 2011 when my hard drive crashed ☹️

racoon@lemmy.ml on 16 Apr 08:07 collapse

Yes. Public Forum conversations should be encrypted so the AI scrapping bots don’t analyse them

whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.works on 16 Apr 00:30 next collapse

Do we trust proton mail? Is tutamail a better alternative?

comfy@lemmy.ml on 16 Apr 00:56 collapse

My issue with Protonmail is that, last I checked years ago, I couldn’t set up email forwarding or a local client without paying for an upgrade. So there’s a soft form of lock-in to prevent changing providers.

Grass@sh.itjust.works on 16 Apr 00:47 next collapse

If I actually cpuld be bothered to go hang out with people I would totally try to make crack a linux a thing

jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml on 16 Apr 00:51 next collapse

hehe, yikes

between Proton moving operations and its CEO being a MAGA (or at least a Trump sycophant), the advice to adopt Proton has really curdled recently

Doomsider@lemmy.world on 16 Apr 02:29 collapse

Yes, all his musings about Trump cracking down on Google aged like fine milk. Everyone who paid attention knew this though. He should keep his mouth shut about politics and do his company a favor

comfy@lemmy.ml on 16 Apr 00:51 next collapse

The linux is already open

Thordros@hexbear.net on 16 Apr 02:10 next collapse

Instead of: “Android.”

Say: "An open source Android (AOSP)-based operating system such as LineageOS for microG or other similar FOSS projects that fully circumvent Google Play Services."

You know, like a normal person.

atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone on 16 Apr 05:49 next collapse

but if enough people use google as a general verb, the word will stop being owned by alphabet (from my understanding)

Tangentism@lemmy.ml on 16 Apr 09:13 next collapse

This reeks of adults trying to explain to other adults about ‘internet speak’ and should have stayed in whichever marketing fools addled brain it came from

Nangijala@feddit.dk on 16 Apr 09:33 next collapse

I just say “I did a search” instead of “I googled it” nowadays, mostly because I don’t like lying.

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml on 16 Apr 09:37 next collapse

Picking another corporation to base your language around isn’t better. Why not refer to the general privacy concepts that corporation claims to have?

imjustmsk@lemmy.ml on 16 Apr 18:42 next collapse

egg break when put all in one basket. 

[deleted] on 18 Apr 08:58 collapse

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