You can use the Google-free Android forks.

Work texts go to the work phone. Work 2FA also on work phone. I use a hardware TAN generator for web banking.

You need military type pants. I have no issues with phone sizes, I can fit four bottles of beer in my pants leaving the hands free to carry something when going down the stairs.

Soon to lose the r from propping.

It’s the Internet. There are internets, but just one Internet.

Gotta show me the relevant RFC for BGP first.

GOS is limited by upstream support. Newer devices can be up to 6 years.

It’s metal ions. You can compensate for iron with manganese, but you’ll still get a grayish glass with reduced transmission.

There is less reason to demand certified blobs for WiFi because send power and frequency range is much lower. If there is no open hardware to run open source software I will stop buying it.

The Internet is a bunch of Autonomous Systems running open protocols like BGP. Packets have no passports.

So I will have to import hardware or cease buying smartphones altogether. MiFi router tethering with WiFi tablets and dumbphones are quite enough.

While this will happen eventually, and circumvention takes skills, it is fundamentally possible, for motivated individuals.

In Germany they won’t cut off your Internet connection. They’ll send you a cease and desist for a few thousand euros.

Just use a VPN then.

Haven’t seen any age verification in BGP.

Dark Forest is not self consistent. Ability to travel implies nanotechnology which allows metabolizing any resource which deterministically leads to expansion which leads to self-selection for fastest expanders which soon means relativistic expansion which is hard to observe since observation window is short while pre-expansive observers are extinguished. Alernative is that nucleation density is very low and/or (reaching the stage of) travel and expansion is impossible. This is consistent with what we see, so Occam’s razor cuts Dark Forest.

To be fair, this already applies to any baseband blob.

Thanks, it is enough for me.

Yes, when I buy books on Amazon it’s the dead tree kind.

Yes, KOReader and Librera FD are two applications I use currently.