Logout from all your Google accounts and then use Aurora Store in anonymous mode to install and update apps.

For what it’s worth, I run GrapheneOS and can use my phone to pay for stuff via NFC just like any other phone user. I’ve used it in various countries and it Just Works™.

To achieve this you just need to find a payment app that works.

In my country, I use Curve.

RethinkDNS has an advanced VPN section which does it.

Yep. RethinkDNS does this.

With RethinkDNS you can even run multiple, simultaneous WG connections – as I do.

I’m a “Groundbreaker” on the new Digg (just the initial wave of people that signed up). It’s nothing nefarious but it’s also nothing special yet.

There are grand claims of being an antidote to the more toxic corners of the Internet but so far it’s a bit of a damp squib.

I do hope they pull it off but at the moment it’s a poor cousin of Lemmy, IMHO.

Digg is back.

That assumes that notes spent at a store are kept and never reused; that’s simply not true. If you buy a €5 coffee with a €5 note and then later in the day someone buys a €3 muffin with a €10 note, your €5 note is given to them as change. Repeat that process in a town or city and that cash gets pretty shuffled quite quickly.

Your scenario doesn’t also take into account till “float” where a portion of cash is kept in the till/store/elsewhere to seed the till the next morning for the first customers of the day, should they need change for their purchases.

You 100% should.

I bought a second-hand Pixel, installed GrapheneOS the moment it arrived and never looked back.

I recently installed Curve for contactless NFC payments. Their support is terrible but, after some teething issues, it works without any problems.

Hosted on GCP?

Well, duh.

Element is UK and EU-based, not US-based.

I run a complete, self-hosted Matrix stack including bridges to WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram and Signal as well as Element Call (Livekit) and MAS (the new authentication system).

I don’t think there’s any shortcuts. You just need to install them and work through any issues, one-by-one. Start with just the homeserver (Synapse, don’t bother with anything else yet) and add one component at a time and get it working before moving to the next.

I will say that having a decent knowledge of reverse proxies, networking, DNS and certificates will help you greatly. Having a solid understanding of Docker (if you’re using Docker) would be of great benefit too.

It should be much easier today than it was five/six-odd years ago when I started; things are more polished now than they were then.

They’re just hosting existing FOSS alternatives.

I’m running GrapheneOS and have no idea what things look like on the fruity phones.

I do this. I self-host rather than use Beeper but the effect is the same. Single client (Element) to my own Matrix server (Synapse) with bridges to WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and Slack.

https://localsend.org/

Self-hosted, yes.

I use Matrix with bridges to Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack.

That means a single app that I can communicate on multiple platforms with.

My main conversations happen natively on Matrix but can also talk to “normies” on any of the others.

I use Rethink because I can have a “local firewall” and a WireGuard tunnel at the same time.

That’s the problem. WhatsApp will use GCM for push notifications. No GSF, no GCM.

You don’t need to sign in and it’s not needed for their location services. It works without it. It complains but still works.

GrapheneOS supplies a sandboxed version of those libraries and the underlying location requests don’t go to Google.

You sure can.

Luckily I signed up with fake details (name, address, etc.).

This implies they’re storing the plaintext password.

Ideally the password would be hashed with a salt and then stored. Then it’s a fixed length field and it shouldn’t matter how long the password is.

That’s how they “win”; by making it “not worth the effort”.

From the context, children.

Running GrapheneOS.

Just use rclone. It does this natively.

With Pihole you can restrict or be permissive with different devices, based on MAC or IP address.

I had the same issue but it’s working again for me now.

Self-recharging? The world needs more of this mysterious technology.

It’s the one they’re replying to.

Ahhh. Props to you, kind stranger.

Y…yes?

Yes. It prevents replay attacks.

That’s why I buy secondhand Pixels. You can normally get near-new quality if someone orders one as a gift and it’s the wrong colour, or they accidentally chose the wrong storage size, or something similar.

That way Google’s not getting my money.

“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.” ~ Malcolm Turnbul, former Australian PM.

Making it illegal only hampers those that follow the law.

Criminals, by definition, already don’t follow the law.

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