XMPP is more lightweight but way more clunky. I think Matrix is better since all the features are built in and is having more development, more users and more clients on multiple operating systems.

I always recommend multi-hop as it increases your privacy. And as long you choose the two servers to be nearby each other and not halfway across the world, you will not notice any difference in your connection.

Aliases are always recommended over your main email address.

You can have a few email addresses (1 protonmail for personal stuff, 1 protonmail for anonymous/private accounts, etc) and then have a alias account for your personal email and an alias account for your anonymous/private email, etc. This way if the alias service you use gets comprimised, it will not link your personal accounts to your private/anonymous accounts.

I was coming from a mindset you were using your own laptop or buying your own laptop.

Say no to installing closed source software and say no to installing spyware. Simple as that.

I found this new community that is about finding new jitsi meet instances. Good place to find other instances so far.

!jitsimeetinstances@lemmy.world

Not surprised Yandex is the Russian version of Google

Didnt google preach at their yearly summit about making RCS a global standard? Google should be releasing fully open source APIs for Kotlin, Swift and Dart.

Nevertheless, I am skeptical on how the encryption works especially if your buddy is using Google messanger and if you were using a 3rd party RCS app.

Yubikeys are good. A Open source alternative is Onlykey

Is there a robot vacuum that does not have bluetooth, wifi or any other wireless signals, even if it does map your home?

+1 for Filen. They also offer lifetime plans now and then which is always a good deal.

I find the image search accuray not that good but in time I know it will beat DDG and Startpage/Google