Yeah, i never got the point in threema. Any particular advantage to signal and matrix?

It is absolutely a great idea. These shit phones are fucking dangerous.

They’re completely different, depending on your needs. Some work easily for those without tech knowledge or very strict needs at usability, some are for privacy enthusiasts or endangered people and some are for techies who want to advance humanity.

I suggest trying on an older phone you already have or buying a used one.

Generally, i suggest not buying new at all, as a form of protest, anyway.

Exactly. it is sad that things like this have to happen. capitalism is again asking for your lives.

I think if money has no value to you anymore (billionaires), you employ a company to sue anyone who collects even trace amounts of your data. Think largest and most expensive law firm calling you as ceo of the data collection agency and asks if the wife knows about his tendencies.

Watch the series revenge to get a somewhat good idea of ultrawealthy life.

There you have it. Changed my comment to not include your text.

You really need help. Not because i hate your or something but because you would profit from a coherent thought framework that helps you think logically without the need for constant violence.

Good luck

Greenpeace isnt even mainly focused on meat production afaik so no idea where you got that from but its not from then that we get information. You can see this on state tv. I dont know what your point is but i dont think you can prove that.

I know that logical thinking is optional but please go touch grass. Reported.

But they all do occur.

It is not. Eating meat is actually a torture and murder industry and people who eat meat are actually eating pieces of corpses.

Even when I still ate meat, I could understand that morally there is no difference to eating humans.

In that case i very much suggest a different approach.

“If that is your take, you will love veganism.”

Btw, i dont eat animal products. Pretty recently too.

Good idea. I’ll check it out myself.

In strong opposition to “left wing extremism is as bad as right wing extremism” western propaganda and thought stopping clichés are absolutely as bad as chinese ones if not worse.

The difference is, everyone knows that china oppresses criticism, while people say that their capitalfascist “democracies” would somehow be better.

Capitalism needs to go, first and foremost.

Oh yeah. So i cant ask for one thing and not do another. Classic bad faith argument. Good try.

Running an llm on a phone will absolutely destroy your battery life. It also is imperative that you understand that the comfort of ai is bought with killing of innocents (through expediency of climate catastrophe, exploitation of the planet and the poorest on it).

I think using ai to experiment on a home server which already exists wouldnt be problematic IN A VACUUM but you would still normalize using the tech which is morally corrupt.

This is called false dichotomy or false dilemma. It is setting arbitrary limits on the available options to force the person asked into specific behaviora, either to agree to the asking party’s terms or make themselves vulnerable to moral attacks and ridicule.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

Thats said, the cookie banners on some websites are the same. “Pay or be surveiled.” Thats not okay.

I’m currently testing lineageos on a oneplus 6t since it is dirt cheap (from 50€$) ob ebay.

So far my track record has been:

• Around 6 months of daily use
• wifi, bluetooth, lte, gsm all work without issues
• calls work 99% (same as iphone)
• headset needs usbc bc no headphone jack. Works with adapter but so far only for music
• camera works, qr codes work
• nfc works but without google services, ive found no oayment provider thay supports it
• around 16 hrs of battery life under normal use
• no ads in os (or browser, thanks to ublock)

As with all custom roms, you need to unlock the bootloader and if you dont encrypt, you should not do anything on the phone that cant ever be found by a third party, say law enforcement. I would argue that the majority of phones with a locked bootloader arent any better but apparently, if you want that extra security, graphene on a pixel seems to be much more fitting. I have heard of issues with reliability so I’ll stick with lineage.

I do develop for and did try postmarketos (actual linux) and I love it. But its absolutely not end user ready from last time i used it. If you tinker and want to help, postmarketos deserves your help but please dont use it as a daily and expect more than 80% reliability. Its for people who love linux and want it to become the real deal and who can manage their frustrations.

Android is not open source in its final form. The base is open source. First step to privacy is checking if you can use something like lineageos or graoheneos. They both include android open source project (aosp) as a base and build on top. Graphene only works on pixel phones and lineage has a variety of phones you can put it on. Dont install play services and use fdroid for most apps. Some apps you will need aurora (play store but anonymous) which is a last resort.

I use fennec on lineageos which works quite well. I have ublock (recommend) and noscript (optional because pretty drastic).

Let me know if you need more help.

Thanks. Very nice of you to say that. Have a good one.

Privacy from my perspective is a mix and mach, not a goal to achieve. Its a continuum, a lifestyle, like veganism, not ruining the environment, etc.

Of course you can try to not exist in the registries of big corpos and governments but for that you need insane amounts of discipline and decades of experience, not to mention extensive computer knowledge.

You can achieve good results by using some very basic measures like ad blockers, not accepting any cookies if you can help it. That already just moves the needle in your case. Then you tell your friends to do just this.

If you are curious and want to do more, you can but if you dont have capacity, jusy leave it at that.

What you’re talking about is virtue signaling to gain attention. People try to “be good” in the eyes of their perceived mentors and “fans”. They post how paranoid they are in the hope of achieving upvotes or other forms of clout. Its not real. What you’re feeling is the emptiness of clout and the pointlessness of doing even a good thing for mostly selfish reasons. The return on investment is not great enough.

Thats why one should never try as hard as they can to avoid privacy invasion but just take all passive measures they can put in without negatively impacting their lives.

I for example tried a lot of things but I’m a programmer and system integrator. I do this shit for a living. I tried using a postmarketOS phone as a daily driver. It didnt work out because even after months i still had to think around my phone to not constanly face being disadvantaged. Thats why i changed to lineageos. It is not as awesome as postmarketos but for now, it does the trick, without falling all the way back to apple or stock android. Same goes for pc. Using linux mint or ubuntu is no shame. Its far better than going for arch or nix and falling back to windows.

The important part is to not give in to fascistoid systems and still be functional enough to live, not only survive, if possible.

If you need any help or advice, feel free to contact me.

Leave meta services and delete your accounts. You’re welcome.

I would tear them a new one.

I am also pro being able to form your own future by giving an extra hand to the world.

I do however disagree on the part where you have to be born into certain privileges to be able to do this. Yes, giving extra should mean you get extra but all in accordance to individual abilities an privilege. Someone born rich should have it significantly harder to make more than someone born poor for example.

Oh? And you’re the authority on that?

The question you are trying to ask is “what special message do you see in that movie?”

Of course my friend, let me tell you.

Oblivion has this very nice plot twist where the main character was actually

I do agree though that its not necessarily the same league as the others. But seeing people acting the way they do, they must be submitted to 24/7 reeducation on freedom, privacy, healthy relationships, democracy, etc.

We saw these movies well before we were 16 or 18. Maybe today’s grown ups actually didn’t watch them and are braindead because of it?

Mandatory watching exercise for everyone:

• the matrix (only the first one, the rest is meh)
• 12 monkeys
• minority report
• oblivion
• idiocracy
• don’t look up

The themes are always the same. Peak dystopia, sometimes facilitated by helpful idiots.

Exactly. I only read about it in combination with the court case but yes, this is the underlying situation iirc.

A whistleblower from apple showed that they do listen and have whole lawyer client conversations were recorded at apple. I dont know if that was what the commenter before was hinting at.

Not interested enough to support corpo media please post it on peertube if you can. but from the headline: yikes! And I thought they were done with the most vile political idiocy.

You do know that there never has been a globally coordinated general strike, right? :)

Check the site https://verfassungsschutz.de

There you have sections leftist and fascist extremism and numbers to go along. Leftist crimes are around 4k, fascist around 23k iirc in the recent past (2023)

Germany in the meantime: „leftist extremism is threatening the democratic system“ [quote from the constitution protection agency] while fascist crimes outnumber them 5 to 1. All that while the EU keeps trying to sneak chatcontrol by us through the backdoor, again and again.

I dont have that much hope for our world tbh.

i can see how this would be an interesting function. sadly, we’re, nowhere near an end user ready experience in any non corporate messenger. it very much still depends on how tech savvy the user and how good the admin is. until that changes I’m gonna unilaterally say no to reinventing any wheels and say fix the stuff we have before adding more functionality.

Its not more open source. It is at all. Signal is dependent on the backend which is as proprietary as bluesky. You can absolutely not self host it which technically binds you to the next single point of failure.

Some use open source alternatives since signal still has the off switch to your communication. I personally use matrix for over a year and its pretty good. But its not polished so you need patience and a good admin.

im daily driving the pinetime on a postmarketos phone. it is glorious. but you kinda need to want to stick it to the man for maximum pleasure because thats whst youre doing. thats how it feels to me anyway.

If you would read the book, they explain the point you are trying to make in the first couple of pages.

You have your opinion of how stuff should be done. But that doesnt mean everyone else needs to do it your way. Thats how we got into this mess.

Also very good analogy in the book: if you vote or not is your decision, plain and simple. But voting takes a couple minutes on average. If you want change, you can hang up a poster or print some flyers or take a megaphone, depending on what you‘re comfortable with.

I come from a country where people used to be put in gas chambers because the responsibility didnt reach far enough down and right now, that same country is going that exact route again.

Great way to rid yourself of responsibility. Sadly, nothing ever got achieved by being smart. Doing things is what is necessary.

Therefore yes, billionaires must go, of course. But they wont go until we take action. So my point still stands. Read the book.

How about doing something instead of talking? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-recipes-for-disaster

Very interesting! Thanks for the heads up. I didnt know that. 7 years ago, they already used wine for that. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44014390/how-to-generate-a-windows-executable-using-pyinstaller-on-linux#45065125

If all else fails you could also use a vm. Thats probably less dangerous than dual booting because of windows not playing nice with grub.

Why windows for pyinstaller and compiling?

Strongly agree! I switched as well, so did my wife and its glorious. We‘re both avid gamers and no issues so far. We have strong opinions about intrusive anti cheat software so that helped.

I did make a windows vm for my wife since she needs to work with adobe sometimes and it seems to work perfectly so far.

Feel free to update on your journey.

I have recently switched a second tv to kodi and I‘m very happy. I had an appletv but it is just so limited and reminds me that I dont really own that device. Now I can play retro games, watch all my movies, listen to music and see my favorite pictures without having to use apples ecosystem or paing them for being able to use my device.

Judging by your username: same country, same reason here! I‘d have been put in the chamber back then and I dont want people to do it once the swastika is back on our flag.