Lawn_and_disorder [he/him]

Reding the link now " The reason the US government hasn’t tried to block or hinder Signal, is because it’s satisfied with the amount of information Signal can provide to it." Well the metadata of who is contacting who can be acquired by other means. CIA also like to have secure tools. Just like you can argue the CIA connection in the TOR case . It doesn’t mean backdoors and so on.

Centralisation argument sure, but that issue will always be there at some level, even for matrix.

Phonenumber discovarability argument is no longer correct as it is possible to use signal and not disclosing it to contacts, but yes still to signal.

I have a signal account with a fake number so that is an option as well, if even more work than matrix process.

There is also desktop clients for both.

Use signal and matrix. Telegram is as people pointed out usually unencrypted. Also unverifieble in its code . Signal is easy uses but phonenumbers ( you can register a fake one however) but always EE2E. Matrix does not require a number at all. But definatly is a bit harder to get started with and are therefore harder to get your contact to use it.

Had nosey cops trying to get into my phones illegally recently… do not understand people that dont encrypt shit

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A couple of different ones. One kali nexus two graphene, one stock pixel

Started with some political discussions from my home country on mastodon, looked in to fediverse tech in general and managed to avoid .world from the start

Google doesnt make the big bucks on phonesales. Even buying a new ( I refurbish mine myself) and putting GOS on it is worse for Google than buying anything else and run it with gapps.

What google makes on phonesales is nothin to what they make of your data so your argument is flawed

Yea it is possible to change in stock launcher, some icons do not work and not weblinks either. But it is there.

I use my own domain and catch all. So signupatservice1 will be at signupatservice1@mydomain.ml and so on easy to check whats what

Added some repo thats unsigned it seems get the official

Peppermint OS, its what made me stop distrohopping . Debian based with extra on top, easy doesn’t brake,

You can torrent without port forwarding As long its basic it works, just less nodes. I would say you can use any VPN, but makes sense to choose one were you do not have to give them your payment details.

Hope for us outside the US is that you just keep your wars at home. Chances for peace in Ukraine increased at least

Google benefits from the development made. Asus not so much. Been using pixel phones for ages now.

One of the first steps I did was removing the Facebook app and replacing it with a Foss version still maintaining the account. Not until a lot later I deleted it. People do change. Go ahead, add some share buttons.

SMS codes as mentioned and cellular data makes something with Sim card or e-sim a necessity. This can be mitigated by using a portable hotspot or cellular router/modem. Had a teltonika router that autoforwards the SMS as email.

Most things works fine, if they don’t there are ways around it, like installing the neutered play version. Only hard NO currently is Gpay.

Not missing root functionality things at all

Next best thing to GOS would be Calyx OS. Seems only pixels are getting full updates unfortunataly… https://calyxos.org/install/ The hardware on the pixels security wise is unfortunately hard to beat. Get a used one?

E/OS seems like a good choice if you don’t want to use a pixel.