Nah, not anymore. These tools are starting to be used by police without any remorse, so an ever increasing amount of people are aware. Its being used against immigrants, journalists, activists, etc. so the normie and privacy nerd worlds are starting to overlap.

No of course not. But in order to be able to not accept it, you have to know about it in the first place. Thats what this is perfect for. No harm done, lots of eyes opened.

The only people offended by this are the ones who dont yet understand that this is happening constantly all over the place without your consent already.

Its basically what matrix does afaik. A encrypted online key backup with a big ass recovery key for restoring that backup.

https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/

The founder of the Calyx Institute and the CalyxOS Tech Lead have left the project and this means the signing keys are changing and everyone will have to re install once the new version comes out. Until then you just have to decide whether you are fine with a few months of no system updates. Once the new devs get their first release out you can most likely use the seedvault backup to easily switch.

You should have gotten a critical system notification after the last update which came out a few days ago. Have you not?

Its a federated service. Anyone can track all your posts, comments, votes, etc.
There is no such thing as a “privacy respecting” lemmy instance. The admin can promise you that they wont log your IP but thats not worth anything at all, ever, anywhere on the internet.

When CalyxOS starts getting reliable monthly releases again i would recommend it over /e/os but at the moment there isnt much else except for ubuntu touch.

No, not wrenches, they just stuff you in a camp, starve you and degrade you until you give up and then deport you to an even worse camp.

Some of the mentioned things are real issues, but normal users dont care about physical security. If your physical security is threatened, then your failure point will be a pipe wrench.

Imho pixels fucking suck. Repairability is really bad, so as soon as anything has issues you need a need phone. I would say the answer to your question heavily depends on your daily battery life requirements. If you wanna stretch the phones overall life, set a 70-80% charging limit to damage the cells less. (If that is even possible with the new models idk, you didnt specify yours…) If you treat it well and turn off all the battery sucking toggles to extend the time before needing to charge, then 4-5 years might be doable.

I tried Graphene for a bit but ultimately couldnt put up with pixel devices anymore and went to calyxos on a fairphone. Not having a swappable battery or extendable storage is just not fun. If you want a 10 year phone get a fairphone. The 6 just came out and is very well priced in the EU.

I mean they get a bajilliontrillion dollars from google every year to set it as the default search engine, so idk why people here are surprised at all. But yes, firefox needs a hard fork by some organization with more neutral funding.

Yeah i just checked the video and it appeared for like 2 seconds as a side note. He never even tried Brave apparently.

It gives you full control over everything required for push notifications. If you self host tge server its perfect ofc, but even if you dont, spreading notification data over hundreds or thousands of push servers makes it much harder for governments to find what they are looking for.

And that is why we use ntfy :)
Not the main instance ofc because then you have one big silo again, but there are plenty of publicly hosted servers.

Big Monopoly and founded by Elon Musk and Peter Thiel among others.

It says “GrapheneOS developers do not wish to use reddit as a platform to discuss their products”. What do you not understand about this?

Yeah this is a based af reason for comment removal

Pretty sure this is what they scrape from your device if you install their app. I dont know how else they would get access to contacts and location and stuff. So yeah you can just run it on a virtual android device and feed it garbage data, but i assume the app or their backend will detect that and throw out your data.

Yes fuck HP, one of the worst hardware companies out there, right after Apple.

The old devs kinda stopped adding new stuff and fixing bugs. The current ones did that and also seem to have a bit of a plan for how to keep things interesting. More gamemodes and UX improvements are a big point of improvement too according to old time players. Its absolutely possible that it will go down again, it just kinda depends on the community staying interested and giving feedback, but at that price it wouldnt be a huge monetary loss even if it does die down again.

Yeah PvP (especially fast pace shooter type stuff) is not for everyone. I used to play a lot of Rainbow Six Siege, but when i stopped dual booting windows, that came to an end. Since then i have almost exclusively played PvE games and it has been a much more relaxing and stress free experience tbh.

Im still gonna give this a try tho, just like i did with Apex Legends when it got Linux support.

Yeah VC is not for everyone. When i play with women in my party, its sadly still a nightmare in many games as soon as they start using their mic.

male tactical choices

its a typo i know but i chuckled at it anyways :D

by far the worst in Europe

In terms of dystopian government overreach or crime rate? Because the crime rate is surely not the worst. The overreach tho is pretty bad. They constantly try to break encryption, they try to force people to ID themselves for online services, incarcerate peaceful protesters for years, etc.

Assange is a great example of how fucking horrible their government can be.

Yep its a great idea for counteracting seniority advantage imo. I have yet to play much, but after restarting once even got the voice chat to work. The visual map planning thing lets people plan even without vc tho.

The only worry i have is that its built on Unity, which is not the best for a shooter like this, but im gonna stay optimistic.

+1 on latency being an issue/solution

The way i (and many others) see it, anything that is not both open source and fully decentralized is automatically a no go. Open source for rather obvious reasons. Decentralized for less but increasingly obvious reasons (No central failure point, no central metadata collection, no central authority, no lock in).

Telegram or Discord

So yeah those are obviously shit too. Signal is the last centralized thing i use, but im starting to phase that out now too.

With all sorts of anti E2EE sentiment and right wing parties on the rise everywhere, i would rather get rid of any communication channels that are so prone to being blocked, shut down, censored, etc.

Do you happen to have an experience with using briar and can comment on it? It seems cool and using its mailbox system on a secondary old phone to get 100% uptime despite it being p2p is a nice concept. I just havent gotten around to really testing the UX when using it with multiple other people much.

They are indicative of opportunism and greed, which is exactly in line with preemptively sucking up to a future dictator.

I mean this just went public so idk, trials might take a while, but yeah i agree probably no consequences.

Good luck lmao

Not supposed to != wont. Police regularily do things that they arent supposed to and as long as people naively consent by giving their phone they can get away with whatever they want i would think.

Yep in the last two or so years it should have become even more clear for people how important federation is.

Yeah i was gonna ask “are you not using fdroid?” but yeah, just apple things i guess.

+1 on organic maps

Gets regular updates and improvements. They recently added (slightly experimental) track recording.

You can easily import bookmarks and tracks.

You can also edit osm data if you have an account and see something outdated like opening hours.

Supports TTS instructions for handsfree navigation if your phone has TTS installed.

Bad post.

A: old news

B: missing important context

C: Most likely partially fabricated by law enforcement according to many experts and the tor project. They didnt execute a full timing attack because they are not capable of doing that.

From the limited information The Tor Project has, we believe that one user of the long-retired application Ricochet was fully de-anonymized through a guard discovery attack. This was possible, at the time, because the user was using a version of the software that neither had Vanguards-lite, nor the vanguards addon, which were introduced to protect users from this type of attack. This protection exists in Ricochet-Refresh, a maintained fork of the long-retired project Ricochet, since version 3.0.12 released in June of 2022.

That is so odd. Can you manually reroll your home networks external IP address? Maybe reconnect your router. I dont know how they would be able to reidentify you otherwise.

Are you on a commercial VPN connection?

Banning things doesnt stop people from doing those things. You dont stop locking your bike/car just because theft is illegal. Other countries governments could still use it, criminals could use it, your own countries agencies could use it because they might be exempt from certain laws.

Yes it should be outlawed but thqts only half the solution.

Have you tried if yt-dlp works? Cuz if that also doesnt, then maybe they actually temporarily blocked your IP?

I have never gotten this message on yt so cant test it.

Im talking about apps (optimally your main camera app too) needing to have built in biometric fuzzing. Phones (by default) just shouldnt be capable of creating pictures that can be used for biometrics. Camera apps for this already exist but nobody uses them.

Ofcourse the existing pictures are already on the internet but thats not a reason to not change course. The sooner we stop supplying them data, the worse their detection system will be.

Simply not uploading pictures of yourself at all is the best but maybe thats too hard for some people.