Ayy yo we got Ben Shapiro on Lemmy? 🤣

I don’t think that’s how oligarchy works. The president is the servent of the billionaire CEOs, not the other way around. Know your place, dipshit. Did he not read the terms of selling his soul?

It always feels weird when people write an essay as if this is their final quarter project for high school. Too neat, thoughts too organized, much flowery proses.

Solution:

Make a site only available in [insert a privacy-respecting country]

Then anyone else gets redirected to a “This website is not available in your country, please use a VPN and set it to [country]”

???

Profit?

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Protonmail does not support IMAP, what they have is a program called Proton Bridge that locally decrypts you email then you can set it up so that your IMAP client then reads from Proton Bridge, giving you a seamless experience with one email client having access to all your email accounts.

The law isn’t a law yet, its a just a proposal. Proton is still in Switzerland, but they said they’re gonna move if the surveillance law actually becomes law.

Incoming Emails that aren’t from proton, or PGP encrypted (which are like 99% of emails), arrives at Proton Servers via TLS which they decrypt and then have the full plaintext. This is not some conspiracy, this is just how email works.

Now, Proton and various other “encrypted email” services then take that plaintext and encypt it with your public key, then store the ciphertext on their servers, and then they’re supposed to discard the plaintext, so that in case of a future court order, they wouldn’t have the plaintext anymore.

But you can’t be certain if they are lying, since they do necessarily have to have access to the plaintext for email to function. So “we can’t read your emails” comes with a huge asterisk, it onlu applies to those sent between Proton accounts or other PGP encrypted emails, your average bank statement and tax forms are all accessible by Proton (you’re only relying on their promise to not read it).

That kid is gonna get bullied in school.

Source: I was that kid, I didn’t have a phone for most of High School (which was around the time when smartphones became popular), so I didn’t get into groupchats so I basically had no friends for most of highschool. Fun times 🫠

(I mean this “no-smartphone” thing has to be a collective thing across society, you can’t expect this to work if only one parents does this.)

Exactly, which makes the “you can’t buy from a carrier in the US or you’ll often get a special version that” invalid, since its locked bootloader whether or not you get it from a carrier

You can’t convince 99% of windows users to switch, the real solution is done via legislation. The force of a government is more powerful any boycotts you can muster. (For example: European Union has been passing a regulations on right to repair, do privacy laws next)

I bought unlocked (no carrier) phones from samsung’s website and got locked bootloaders. I’m in the US.

I think computers are gonna be next on the chopping block.

Someone should start a bussiness near the border of Republic of Ireland and get two antennas pointed at each other across the border, with the RoI side having connected to the free internet, then the UK Northern Ireland side connected to the Intra-net. You pay a “Club Membership Fee” to get access to the proxy network.

Its not a VPN, its a Nerd Techie Club, just with a free proxy service as part of the club membership 😉

Briar is already audited lmao

The other option is Meshtashtic

Either is better than this amateur stuff

That’s Carrier Unlocking, not Bootloader Unlocking.

I need my expandable 1TB SD Card storage. 128 default is lame

I want to have 10 TV shows, 50 movies, a offline wikipedia .zim file, bunch of photos, etc…

I don’t want my phone to just be a phone, I want it to be a Pocket PC.

GIMME THE FUCKING SD CARD SLOT 😭

Samsung locks the bootloader, even for carrier unlocked versions traight from samsung’s website. (At least for those sold in the US, not sure about other places)

If you don’t intend to use a custom RON like Lineage OS, you wouldn’t notice a difference. But if you do, then it might be a dealbreaker. As for the Xcover series in particularx the specs are worse for the amount you’re paying. Camera is worse, SoC is slower, assuming if you are conparing the price of a brand new mainstream S or A series phones to a brand new Xcover series. But if you don’t care about worse specs for the swappable battery, then sure, go ahead. I personally wouldn’t get the Xcover series, doesn’t seem like a good deal, the screen is LCD and I’m way too used to OLED/AMOLED of the more mainstream phones.

That’s for “easily replaceable” batteries, not necessarily swappable, as in pop off the cover and insert new battery.

The new Fairphone 6, for example, requires a screw driver to open up the phone, and that would meet the legal requirements of the EU law.

Meshtastic-Based Web?