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I do not have data service to be able to run a hotspot.

Why would something choose Telegram as a private alternative over Whatsapp? Can you message someone on Telegram who is not a contact? How do you you get around Felegram saving info and messages on their servers? XMPP would be a better choice with OMEMO.

I am considering changing from GrapheneOS to CalyxOS. I have never tried CalyxOS, I’ve used GrapheneOS on 3 phones.

I don’t install any apps that are not from F-Droid.

Blind fans don’t realize this, but it is possible to implement so much security in software that people can’t use it due to too many repeated roadvlocks in trying to use everyday. Is it possible to implement too much privacy?

I will add on top of all the other recommendations, in F-Droid settings, turn off all anti-features. If after doing that, an app you are looking for is not available, check what anti-feature it has for why it’s not listed.

I suggest RiseupVPN.

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I don’t view using a FOSS frontend equating to logging into an account on a server running proprietary code. Using NewPipe is one thing, but if it was possible, using NewPipe o login to Google account is another.

For example I refuse to use Proton VPN, I use Riseup VPN because the server for Riseup is open source.

In my own opinion, I believe Protonmail not publishing email server source code and publishing Protonmail app source code is stopping it from having a massively larger popularity.

OpenBSD is proof that security can be achieved through engineering open source code that is standards or protocol compliant and not by depending on proprietary code.

Which proves my point. Proton won’t publish their server source code, so I don’t have blind trust in any Proton service, including Protonmail.

For Proton Wallet, there are free/libre wallet alternatives without anti features.

Yes. Nothing from Proton is available in F-Drioid after disabling anti-features.

Nothing from Proton is available on F-Droid without anti-features. In Settings after turning off all anti-features, do a search for proton and there is no apps listed.

No, it has proprietary or non-free depndencies. There are other libre bitcoin wallets.

Project 2025 is 100% political and partisan. Due to that, there are false claims being made about Project 2025.

I condem the organization but not all statements are true due to it’s entirely political nature.

I just made the switch from Molly to Langis. I prefer Molly but it’s a fork as opposed to a patched version removing proprietary dependancies so Langis is straight from Signal releases.

Ads on a login screen? That’s disturbing.

For people automatically saying to switch to Linux, it’s because they have never had a job in tech to know it doesn’t work that way, and have never worked in production. There are several industries where if you don’t run Windows you can’t have a job because all of the software is only designed to run on Windows in their industry.

I fully agree, except about when it’s time to disconnect, that sounds like you go into every interaction expecting a ime that you will ultimatey cut that person out of your life. Or you go into every situation assiming at some point you will have nothing to do with someone. That’s a self fulfilling mindset.

I do fully agree with you. It’s easier to delete a username. My point was for giing someone your phone number, random people don’t obsess over it the way the fear is hyped up about giving someone a phone number. People freely given a phone number to a business, for people to use that number, but terried to give it to a person, that’s a contradiction.

I believe hype about the fear of giving a number is a reflection of that person’s social dysfunction along with callousness. If someone says they are scared to give someone on the street their phone number, whom they can block, that is a reflection of their delusional self-aggrandizing narcissism.

Have you considered the possibility his whole YouTube gig was always a scam? Look at how 1995 his website is. Has ever done a video teaching how to do anything technical so viewers can do something themself? He’s a talker. There’s no evidence of having IT skills.

His audience is the uninformed, don’t know any better. All he does is talk. People are better search videos and watching a random person showcase how the work is done for people to follow along and teach through examples. Rob doesn’t show anything, only talks about it.

For all viewers know, all of his videos might be his opinions based of what others say, but give him a terminal or a shell and a keyboard, he might not know how to do anything.

You soend too much time on the internet and not enough time developing skills and ad abilities that will behoove in the decades ahead.