Well yea, the solution is buying that hardware. Which should be pretty damn easy.

I’m pretty sure the compression is amplitude compression, just making it quieter not data compression. All the audio information will remain, just volume changed

Android does not mean Google necessarily.

Oh nice then! Will update my comment

I personally use DarkReader, it’s not foss afaik but works well and is decent about userdata from what I’ve seen. There are likely better options out there tho that I just haven’t found

Turns out it actually is FOSS and it’s pretty good!

Depends on the university but for mine in particular discord is the primary communication method for clubs, and also friends to a certain extent. I think discord is decent for privacy but I don’t fully know, what I do is have my publicly visible profile be pretty anonymous and not tied to me.really at all, but then you can make server-specific profile names with your real name.

I’ll admit I’m not the most privacy-oriented person, I try for a somewhat decent level of privacy (using Firefox+unlock, bitwarden, signal for family chat, a few other things) but also do have Snapchat for instance, which is one of the worse things I do. This does remind me tho that I should try and convince my roommates to use signal instead of SMS because they have iPhones and I’m android so it’s kinda awful for anything but text