Lawn_and_disorder [he/him]

Reding the link now " The reason the US government hasn’t tried to block or hinder Signal, is because it’s satisfied with the amount of information Signal can provide to it." Well the metadata of who is contacting who can be acquired by other means. CIA also like to have secure tools. Just like you can argue the CIA connection in the TOR case . It doesn’t mean backdoors and so on.

Centralisation argument sure, but that issue will always be there at some level, even for matrix.

Phonenumber discovarability argument is no longer correct as it is possible to use signal and not disclosing it to contacts, but yes still to signal.

I have a signal account with a fake number so that is an option as well, if even more work than matrix process.

There is also desktop clients for both.

Use signal and matrix. Telegram is as people pointed out usually unencrypted. Also unverifieble in its code . Signal is easy uses but phonenumbers ( you can register a fake one however) but always EE2E. Matrix does not require a number at all. But definatly is a bit harder to get started with and are therefore harder to get your contact to use it.

Seems you are confusing China and USA.

Had nosey cops trying to get into my phones illegally recently… do not understand people that dont encrypt shit

Get your own domain 😃 im assuming tutanota has the possibility to use your own

Got a threadmill under my standing desk WFH. Great way for sleep issues indeed

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A couple of different ones. One kali nexus two graphene, one stock pixel

Started with some political discussions from my home country on mastodon, looked in to fediverse tech in general and managed to avoid .world from the start

Google doesnt make the big bucks on phonesales. Even buying a new ( I refurbish mine myself) and putting GOS on it is worse for Google than buying anything else and run it with gapps.

What google makes on phonesales is nothin to what they make of your data so your argument is flawed

Yea it is possible to change in stock launcher, some icons do not work and not weblinks either. But it is there.

Never said they didnt.

Yes you should be vary of VPNs but obviously also your ISP. I know mine is selling my data, I just don’t have any options. If I would do something highly ileagal I would obviously not really on just a VPN and trust them. That would be one stepping stone of several.

HK have read yet Isreal yea thats bad but still far from PIA etc. Looks mullvad is the better option. Scary there is so few recomendations in general.

Proton also accept crypto which can be anon

Mullvad yes, proton and riseup maybe

I use my own domain and catch all. So signupatservice1 will be at signupatservice1@mydomain.ml and so on easy to check whats what

Added some repo thats unsigned it seems get the official

Peppermint OS, its what made me stop distrohopping . Debian based with extra on top, easy doesn’t brake,

You can torrent without port forwarding As long its basic it works, just less nodes. I would say you can use any VPN, but makes sense to choose one were you do not have to give them your payment details.