It is expensive for what it is but it’s really the only option I’m aware of that keeps things simple and has Signal (or anything other than normal SMS and calling). Not sure what cell provider it works with. I also know nothing about the Sonim.

As far as a smart phone goes for your authenticator you could put Lineage on a Hisense A9 phone. It’s an eink smartphone

Flip phones from my understanding typically use a Google based OS as well as plain SMS and calls are not encrypted. If I were you I’d use the Punkt MP02 phone because it’s very basic but uses Signal still for communication encryption. Otherwise I’m happy for you that you went through with it and are enjoying it

Thanks for the Mac address tip. My home WiFi UI gets super slow after I have a million different devices connected because I have multiple GrapheneOS devices. Now I won’t have to constantly delete logged devices

No they don’t. EasyOptOuts is the one TechLore recommends and also the one Consumer Reports recommends for your best bang for buck.

I’m unaware of that. It works fantastic for streaming up to 4K and it will play HDR, Atmos, etc. LibreElec it also supports CeC.

Use Kodi to pirate shows and movies. TroyPoint has lots of good articles on how to set it up. Use RealDebrid and the Umbrella addon.

A 2GB RPi5 works great, install LibreElec (Kodi OS that’s FOSS), put it in a Flirc passive case (they also have a Kodi variant that they then donate some proceeds towards), and hook up a small wireless USB keyboard.

I use Kagi and it works well. Seems to give results on what I’m looking for. It gives me the website I typed in rather than a billion other things with a different name first

I would disagree. I’ve gotten quite a few people in my life to use Signal

I don’t want to chat with people on WhatsApp with Signal. I don’t want Meta linking my metadata. Interoperability will only keep people from switching to better platforms

That’ll certainly be very interesting to see how accurate that is over time. Would be a game changer.

10% over 8yrs to me is a huge loss. Think of a 2004 vehicle. That doesn’t seem too old and certainly lots of those vehicles have modern expected amenities. It would have lost 25% of it’s fuel tank size today if it had a battery instead. Diesel hybrids would be a great solution for outstanding fuel economy that would last for many, many, many years

Battery degradation and telemetry/surveillance will still be large issues if you do that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIryvRwxp9A&t=670

Timestamp 11min10sec

I remember reading maybe a year ago that Nissian pushed an update to those Leaf’s that prevented them from charging during certain hours so you couldn’t get the benefit of cheap electricity rates. Either that or they just took away your ability to set specific charging times to the same affect.

Electric cars are not that great for the environment if you look into it deeply. Purchasing an old car and having things rebuilt like the engine are much more sustainable. You could also swap the engine out for an electric motor.

The largest block to having modern private cars is that laws require cars to have driver monitoring systems and kill switches installed. Cars also have microphones in them for hands free calling, emergency calls, and active noise cancellation.

Connecting your phone to your car is also a huge privacy invasion as now your phone that knows everything about you is tied to an invasive vehicle that takes you everywhere. A data aggregators wet dream.

You would need to remove the sim card at the minimum but it’s impossible to know ahead of time if that will detrimentally affect it’s functions and throw codes.

I have read about work being done on Linux operating systems for cars that I assume would be more open to modification but I don’t think we can expect anything reasonably private anytime soon from that.

One profile. No Google sandbox stuff. All open source programs.

On my work Pixel tablet I have a home profile as owner with Aurora store just to be able to load it on the other profile. Then a secondary “work” profile with all the bloat

I saw an ad for something I had just purchased and it bothered me very much. I began researching how that was possible and found all the privacy stuff. I started to Linux, then GrapheneOS, then my router, finally took my TV offline

Network other companies you could work for via people, old bosses, etc that you know. Get them to put in a good word for you and then give them a call and schedule a professional interview. I did this (not in the tech sector) and bypassed all the online job hunting bullcrap. I’ve got a really great job now that I’m happy to be at for many years to come. I’m even using a GrapheneOS pixel tablet at work

The customization of your UI is very unintuitive. Worse than Kodi actually. You have to set up things in a particular order as you cannot reorder it after. Also some features require self hosting a server whereas Kodi doesn’t.

Besides that, @irmadlad@lemmy.world makes good points.

Ohhh I’ll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip!

Last I tried RHVoice is was very unnatural sounding.

Sherpa-onnx is a much much more natural option. I personally use vits-piper-en_GB-southern_english_female-medium because I thought it sounded the most natural. You can also use Glados from Portal

CoMaps is on both F-Droid and izzyondroid repos.

https://f-droid.org/packages/app.comaps.fdroid/

I haven’t been keeping up with Organic Maps updates to see if they differ but I’d assume they’re basically functionally the same, except for potentially Kayak results.

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

You could add addresses to Open Street Maps

Try CoMaps instead of Organic Maps. It’s a fork because Organic Maps is starting to enshittify

Mullvad is a great example. They also have created numerous anti censorship techniques and work with Obscura for even more privacy

How about using an open source and audited one with a good track record? That would most certainly be better that letting your ISP see all your traffic

Came here to suggest that. We need to gather sentiment

Mullvad, Proton, and IVPN are the most trustworthy. Not sure if the other two support port forwarding

Mullvad has a few obfuscation techniques with a new one that just came out. I’m curious if they’ll help in this application

The inconvenience of switching and learning a new thing is the largest deterrent. People complain but don’t care enough due to those reasons to switch.

I only text people on Signal, except the old grandparents or potential new friends that I will in time get to switch to Signal.

I totally disagree. I’ve had very very minimal issues with anything on GrapheneOS and they use Pixel hardware because they have extra hardware security chips in them

One good thing from email is Delta chat. It’s encrypted messaging built on the email infrastructure which is decentralized. In principle that’s better than the likes of Signal, just not as refined yet. We shouldn’t kill all these existing things but rather leave them for applications that they work well for that benefit the people that need those things.

Uptodown or apkpure

Purchase DRM free music to have locally. HDTracks and 7Digital are two great resources

I know it’s on Linux as a Flatpak, it’s also on Android

Totally agree with the FreeTube recommendation. Libredirect will even open links in FreeTube. I use IVPN and use non obscure servers but every once in a while I do have to try a different one.

You could also try Grayjay instead of Freetube

Do you set static IPs for everything you wish to block?