Thank you

What is the difference between type 1 & 2 please ?

Simless phones can make emergency calls because the towers are configured to accept a request for an emergency call to any device that handshakes sufficiently (in Europe and most of Asia anyway, I assume also true of USA because it does work).

The phone is able to contact the nearest tower and initiate a call because it scans for the nearest towers in the boot process in order to go to the next step (check sim details and connect to configured provider). In the process of determining available towers it provides the IMEI to each of them.

If you live in a country where you have to provide ID to buy a handset then this definitely isn’t anonymous, but even if you are in a country that doesnt, all the manufacturers track where every IMEI is shipped, and sku numbers on POS will easily allow determination of exactly when the device was sold. Even if you paid cash there will be CCTV footage of the purchase.

TL;DR this will work mostly until you make a mistake against corporate tracking but will absolutely not protect you from three-letter-acronyms and law enforcement.

Consider your threat model carefully before relying on it

Or to take it a step further back, try getting someone without context before the modrrn era to understand how groundbreaking Casablanca is. So many tropes were invented in that movie, but watched without that understanding many would say “what’s the big deal ?”

It’s a good movie even now. But it’s a great movie with context

Nope not locked. I have always on vpn (random countries) anti fingerprinting and DDG happily allows the search localisation to my actual or a different country

Doesnt this mean that you’re by default agreeing to the cookies though ? I’ve tested not responding to the pop up on several websites and they all write cookies if you don’t respond

So just like android ?

Naah there’s a nostalgia kick from a slackware install you don’t get from linux from scratch

• confession I started with slackware 20 something years ago (oh hell 25 something). It’s nostalgic

From the article (did you read it ?)

"Many car manufacturers are selling car owners’ data to advertisers as a revenue boosting tactic, according to earlier reporting by Recorded Future News. "

So yeah at least some of them collecting it are then selling it

Clearly states in article owners can’t delete data collected

If “here” is the US, then yeah you do. There are insurers in UK, US and I believe most of western Europe who offer “discounted” insurance in return for fitting a tracking, logging device to the car.

Mullvad

You seem stuck on me supposedly not recognising he was a beginner.

I’d encourage you to re-read the two examples I gave as to what perhaps the questions he might want to ask were. I clearly did recognise that was the mostly likely scenario.

When they ignored the suggestion and came back with their “boil the ocean” response I responded with the only answer possible to an unanswerable question and pointed them to ground zero for linux knowledge. Install Arch and read everything you don’t understand.

Doing that process will force them to ask specific questions that can be answered.

Of course if you think there is any answer to the question of where someone should go to instantly learn everything then I would love you to post it. I certainly will be bookmarking it.

Yeah no it’s not, I offered some gentle prompts to help him refine his question into something that could be answered. As did several others.

He ignored that and tripled down with “I want to know everything”

That’s not an answerable question.

You have to want to learn before you can be taught. If you can’t listen to the prompt of “ok cool, you’re keen but pick a thing” then there’s no point me trying to help.

One of the first lessons to learn is how to ask questions.

The doggedness on tripling down on “I want to know everything” is remarkable but it is not going to get you a result.

Your best starting point until you are able to articulate a more focussed question is the Arch wiki as already suggested.

Do a bare bones arch install on a PC you don’t care about breaking (a very old one with limited hardware perhaps) while following the arch install instructions on the wiki.

If you’re a noob then you’ll constantly run into terms you don’t understand look them up as you go.

Ciao and good luck.

End of lime

Yeah, I mean for linux in general, everything around linux

Waves hand in the general direction of the internet. It’s all there.

Seriously, hone in a bit. Like “I’m a complete noob where do I start” or “I installed Mint and it works fine, now what?”

Something like that

That depends on your threat model. All lemmy posts are publicly visible and can be scooped up by Farcebook, google et al. Discord is very definitely not properly private but all posts aren’t public. They are undoubtedly doing the same thing FB does and selling a semi anonymised set of meta data about you, but the world doesn’t have direct visibility

I know the three letter acronyms have access to everything I do, hidden or not, I don’t like it but I don’t see anyway around it.

I can however do my level best to keep FB, google, M$ out of my stuff to some extent

Interesting. I’m using the 6600 on arch kde wayland with no problems. I wonder what caused your issues.

Anyway as you say if you’ve got a working setup great.

Good call, just be aware that while you can (pretty much) install any DE on any distro. Many distros will have a ready prepared install that may feel quite different to you adding the DE later.

If that’s not clear, Ubuntu with cinnamon DE is very different to Mint Cinnamon. Same with Kubuntu (KDE Ubuntu) and KDE Neon (Debian KDE).

All of the differences are of course replicable, they’re themes and tools and configs. But for example it took me literally most of a day to get Arch with cinnamon to feel like Mint cinnamon.

Not for beginners, that’s just mean