Do be aware that this requires advanced protection mode to be enabled, and from everything I can tell, advanced protection mode is a Google specific feature and not on AOSP. So it would require having a Google account or Google Play services installed on the device to use it. Since I run LineageOS with no Google Apps, I probably won’t get this.
That’s the one. It just would not come to me in the moment. I don’t have GAPPS or MicroG installed on my device at all. My view is that if an app won’t run without it, then I didn’t need that app to start with.
Edit: Not having those is basically an immunization against crappy apps that want to steal your data and mine you for profit.
GAPPS have Google Play services and the other one that I can’t think of the name of right offhand mimics play services. I don’t need play services for anything since I run open source software on my device and have not had a Google account in over two years now.
Please keep in mind that this is after tax incentives. So let’s just assume the tax incentives are zero and call it 27,000 just to be on the safe side.
Oh, your computer is just a baby. I’m running a third generation Intel Core i7 in my laptop running Linux Mint. LOL.
As a screen reader user, I welcome new open source text to speech models.
Ask duckduckgo for “Monero”. You are welcome
This was an interesting read. Also, if you’re willing to put up with some sacrifices, disabling Google Play services on your Android phone, or installing Lineage OS without Google services at all, will make your phone both run faster and have way better battery life. As an example, I own the Oneplus Nord N20 5G, and when I pulled it out of the box, it was super laggy and awful. And by installing Lineage OS on it with no Google Play services, it works fabulous.
Possibly. Briar is mobile only as far as i know
I do believe it does have a desktop client.
Oh, i ditch family and friends who dont respect my personal data. Though its signal primary for me
Nostr relays over tor with snowflake proxy
True. Matrix is more for that. Or possibly SimpleX.
Use Mastodon. You can use a server outside of your country. And even if your country attempts to find the operator, 10% of their global turnover of zero is still zero.
Thats true.
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I think there’s an argument to be made here of why are we trusting certificate providers anyway since that just adds another layer of centralization and a choke point for governments to attack. Why not use self-signed certificates and have each search engine indexer also index the certificate and point out how long it has been since it has changed so that you can trust whatever search engine you wish instead of these mega centralized providers of certificates. If kagi, google, ddg, and quant (for example) are all in agreement about the validity of a cert i feel its likely trustworthy. If they start disagreeing thats when it may be time to DYOR. Besides, TOFU is much easier to set up.
But it’s a decentralized service! /s
The really nice thing is that the larger phone batteries get the more you get to use at 50% depth of discharge. My phone is 5,000 mAh and so I get to use 2,500 mAh of it. Once average phones start getting 5,500 mAh, that will mean I will be able to use 2,750 mAh. 250mAh may not sound like a lot, but it can go a decently long way.
That’s 22 minutes of my life. I’ll never get back. But at least it’s interesting that somebody that popular has decided to go to Linux. On second thought, it wasn’t 22 minutes. It was probably more like 10 because I always use 1.5 or 1.75x speed.