This.

I am the person you are talking about. I’ve looked into graphene before and I do host some of my own services at home. I also work full time and I don’t want to spend all of my free time managing things. I use F-Droid, but I am on stock android on my pixel.

I appreciate the privacy and FOSS nature of F-Droid, but I use things like Android auto Google maps for work, I use banking apps on my phone as well. I know technically micro G and blah blah blah, but like I said: work full time.

No weirdos though

I got a key out of a similar situation in the folks RV the other day using a small flat screw driver and a knife to pinch the key and pull it out…

I’ve only ever seen potato “holders” made out of ABS, not PVC. Not sure that ABS is any more resistant to er- rapid unscheduled disassemblies.

You were the chosen one; you were supposed to defeat the Sith, not join them!

We drove around until 3 am looking for another all you caneat sea food buffet

What did you do after you left the all you can eat buffet?

We pretty much went straight home.

Sorry to hear that. I’ve had this one for a few years now and work out in the bush all day and I haven’t had any issues.

I have seen others say that youtube channels have their own RSS feeds. Could plug each YouTube channel you want to follow into an RSS app of your choice. Not ideal, but should avoid algorithms

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The first iteration of the matrix was perfect. Our brains couldn’t handle it. So they had to make some tweaks. This is the result.

… the OS doesn’t understand the app’s data.

I assume you are referring to End to End Encrypted (E2EE) messaging apps here. I’m no programmer/developer/software engineer and I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t know a ton about how most apps work on the backend. That being said, my understanding is that E2EE apps decrypt whatever is being transmitted to them when they get to your device (assuming phone here) (of course it would decrypt it, otherwise how would you make sense of the information?). Once the data is on your phone, it is decrypted. From what I understand, sandboxing apps is not all that robust on Android (at least on “mainstream” versions)

Therefore, the data that was Encrypted from End to End was decrypted at the End and therefore accessible by other applications and processes on your phone. Unless Android sandboxing has improved greatly in the last few weeks.

Worried I’m getting a bit too paranoid, but…

Why backdoor the messaging apps when you can just monitor the entire OS?

Its an older meme, but it checks out

a post from last year

Two months ago

FTFY

Came here to comment on how smokers seem to congregate specifically around doors to public buildings (businesses, hotels, restaurants, ect) despite having had legislation for years that requires them to be anywhere from 5-10 metres from any inlet to a building (air vent, hvac, door, window, etc)

I’ve been pretty happy with my Proton mail/simple login combo (simple login was bought by proton not that long ago).

In regards to your comments elsewhere in this thread, it can be exhausting at times trying to be perfect in regards to privacy. Just take it one day at a time and even one decision at at time. Just because you gave away info before doesn’t mean that it’s pointless to take one little piece back.

No.

Follow up question: if such a bridge did exist, how would one go about blocking it?

Personally I’d say if you’re coming from a Mac, go Pop!_OS. If you’re coming from Windows, go Linux mint. Both have the option to run from a USB to test before installing.