Hmmm. I’ll take a closer look.

Looks nice, but I tried this sort of thing with the FXTec Pro, and never received it. After 4 years, they announced the last ones going out, and they apparently “lost” mine. Contacted them and their response was equivalent to a shrug. Next time I buy a product, it’s going to be verifiably on sale publicly.

I understand where you are coming from, but in my experience, the people I talk with, most just don’t care about privacy. When the situation is explained in plai terms, it’s like talking to a wall. When a simple means to reclaim some privacy is presented or offered, there is no interest.

I happen to currently fit into the discription you offered above, and I do find it challenging to improve my privacy. I’ve been putting off ditching google android on my main phone because I expect it to take hours. I even have a working prototype in my old pixel 2xl with LineageOS + microg. Maybe today I will take the plunge.

People who don’t care about their and their friends and family’s privacy until they are directly impacted are being willfully stupid. At least have the balls to see reality, even if one cannot entirely fix it.

So… The answer us (willfull) stupidity. Those same people say “because I have nothing to hide” with reference to their devices.

Exactly. Just like they never tracked and stored our movements when we turned iff location history.

The class action suit they lost on that was fake news /s

I think he sould have included Chromite. Regularly updated and a fork of the abandoned Bromite, which was a privacy-centric project. I still use Firefox, but also use Chromite.

While many devices don’t have ROMs built for them, any recent device should work with a GSI.

I just bought a tab s8, as I know Andy yan’s LineageOS 20 works on it from other users’ reports. I currently use it on my old tab 10.8 2019.

I have the same experience. People think I’m wacko for caring about this stuff.

Bottom line: you can’t fix stupid, and almost everyone is stupid.

ok, thanks. I’ll check it out, though I solved my problem this time around.

It did not. Whoops - I already answered this :)

This one got me to track down why it never asked for Wi-Fi after I interrupted and restarted the machine. The moment I entered it, the info was saved on the boot partition. Once it tricked me, there was no obvious way out. I turned off Wi-Fi in the BIOS, and that worked.

Neither of these worked. I know now that was because the installer had installed itself on the boot partition with the Wi-Fi info, so I could not go back and force it to continue without a connection. Plus, all addresses I chose it just told me it’s already used, try another.

I just updated my post with resolution thanks you you and others. I had to turn off Wi-Fi at the hardware level.

I’d rather not risk a hacked install if I can. I’ll keep this in my back pocket, though.

Next time, I will use that.

It does not. Once installed, I can “upgrade” by entering my license key. I will write the details as an edit soon.

I installed the most recent installer from microsoft. There’s only one and it covers all the versions.

Earlier today I managed to get it to work by turning off Wi-Fi in BIOS. I’m going to put a brief writeup as an edit to my original message sometime in the next several hours.

I’d rather not be forced to link everything that happens on this installation directly to me.-

That is what I am using, however I had to find a way to open it when I click on a teams meeting link. After I did that, it would not get past the initial splash. I eventually found that I have to hit CTRL-R one to three times to get it to go to the meeting. See, it took lots of searching and head scratching to get it working.

I’m not given the option. I’m going to have to wipe the drive and start over. I will try using Rufus this time.

6-8 is not a choice I am given. The installer for Windows 10 is a “multi-release” package. It contains all the distributions, so I cannot download the “pro” version or the “home” version.

No. It does not like Firefox for Linux.

“a@a.com is already a Microsoft account. Please try a different email address”, so it doesn’t work.

“a@a.com is already a Microsoft account. Please try a different email address”, so it doesn’t work.

That did not work on 10.

Agreed. This is why I took the time to get comfortable with vscode. Still, in real world business development sometes it takes visual studio, and that is an excellent example.

I did that one before I wrote. It told me it was taken and expected another, so that no longer works. I’ll try the other one mentioned here and report back.

It did not, but thanks for the effort!

I saw that, I will give it a shot. Several other things I tried did not work so I am expecting it to fail, unfortunately.

There are times when I do need windows. That is why I kept the default install on my laptop and put Linux on dual boot.

In this case, my son wants to play bedrock Minecraft, and eventually I’m sure he will want to play games that don’t work on Linux.

For recent examples of why I need to have it around just in case, I’m interviewing for jobs and 90% of them use Teams. It took me a few weeks to get a solution to work on Linux.

That did not work for me, and it was listed for Windows 11.

Wow. Something is actually being done to stop this. I’m shocked, and wish we had this kind of advocacy for human rights here in the USA.

Host lost blockers should be all you need for tnsumer VN covers IP safety. I use AdAway with Magisk to get whole phone protection. I use AntennaPod and never have problems with unplayable podcasts.

OK. So, what’s the worst case if they “catch” you asserting your privacy rights?

Based on that you can decide if it is worth doing it.

This reminds me of the times i and my friend had deep philospohical discussions… at 2am. During a weekend party, while drunk, in highschool.

Anyway, don’t go down any rabbit holes in which you can’t see the bottom. Walk away. While whistling, if it helps.

Look into JMP.CHAT. it’s XMPP, with a phone number that is gatewayed to PBX for voice, and can send/receive SMS.

I’m fairly confident that the encryption bans are only on those encryptions for which the government does not have the keys.

In that scenario, companies can continue working. The idea is flawed, of course.

I went with ProtonMail because it is based in a non-five eyes country… Plus it was launched by CERN scientists - major geek coolness factor. Recently upgraded to the basic paid tier.