google can walk up the passageway of elton john for all i care!

doesn’t work on me, i skip crap like that.

so is peertube like open source youtube? looking at the videos its the same cringy youtube thumbnails. id like just regular videos not stupid yellow text with an arrow pointing to the subject like im a fucking 3 year old toddler.

yeah the only problem is that i have to participate in this hellhole capitalist society. Im trying to figure out what the best VPN is to use, along side if tor is worth using.

I am privacy paranoid.

fuck the CIA and fuck PRISIM

why do you think richard stallman doesn’t use a smartphone?

naw, it gets tiring. Either A) im going back to the flip phone i have or B) once i save up enough money ill get a pixel and install graphene.

fair enough, nobody is forcing you to switch, but Inkscape is there, and i am pretty sure there is a replacement program for on-the-fly recording (never looked into it, i don’t really play games like that)

I do. fuck china.

Xiaomi is the biggest offender, but all of them do it.

fair enough, a unique situation.

What programs?

Well its known that SoC’s have backdoors on them. Usually it calls home to China, so you can guess what that’s for.

everytime i factory reset my device so much bloat/spy/malware gets installed automagically

Its not so much a skill issue, more so phone repair stores are the scams. they break stuff that wasn’t broken in the first place and get you to come back with the that issue or say it was also broken. Source: used to work in the phone repair industry and knew people who did this on the regular and is a standard.

Luigi Mangione is a CEO shooting suspect.

FIFY

The problem is that most phones don’t support ROM’s like Graphene or Linage, as people installing custom roms is a relic of years past. Next time you get a phone, think about if you want this option for yourself. Also, do keep in mind that some phones have HW backdoors on them, so even installing a stock rom/graphene does not save you from privacy.

1. do you really need to pay with your phone?
2. do you need to use a banking app and not call the automated system to check?
3. What ID apps would you used on a phone? Having digital ID’s is in it’s own a huge breach of privacy and i would never consent to such a system

you have to be careful what packages you remove, some can softlock your device.