Ads on a login screen? That’s disturbing.
For people automatically saying to switch to Linux, it’s because they have never had a job in tech to know it doesn’t work that way, and have never worked in production. There are several industries where if you don’t run Windows you can’t have a job because all of the software is only designed to run on Windows in their industry.
Oh excellent! This willl help towards making OpenBSD 7.6 a usable home desktop system with having KDE 6 and now Wayland is implementing support for OpenBSD.
I fully agree, except about when it’s time to disconnect, that sounds like you go into every interaction expecting a ime that you will ultimatey cut that person out of your life. Or you go into every situation assiming at some point you will have nothing to do with someone. That’s a self fulfilling mindset.
I do fully agree with you. It’s easier to delete a username. My point was for giing someone your phone number, random people don’t obsess over it the way the fear is hyped up about giving someone a phone number. People freely given a phone number to a business, for people to use that number, but terried to give it to a person, that’s a contradiction.
I believe hype about the fear of giving a number is a reflection of that person’s social dysfunction along with callousness. If someone says they are scared to give someone on the street their phone number, whom they can block, that is a reflection of their delusional self-aggrandizing narcissism.
You soend too much time on the internet and not enough time developing skills and ad abilities that will behoove in the decades ahead.
My sentiments exactly. That was not worth a post, and whoever did post should find helpful practical information and stop complaining on the internet.
For privacy, any ISP can technically see everything you do online including phone using wi-fi unless a device or syatem uses a VPN, Tor, or i2p, but that does not mean the ISP is keeping records of what an account does online. They may have no interest.
For security, you definitely need your own router. If you can build a system to use as a router running OpenBSD or pfSense, at leaat use a router with open source firmware so your router traffic is not going to someone else and an open source router will give you a lot more extensive network functionalities.
Does XMPP with OMEMO give you what you are looking for, or am I misunderstanding?
All social media has a heavy censorship with people getting deleted for saying the wrong views or hurt feelings, it’s only a question of how much you will self sencor before being banned.
Accounts being banned have nothing to do with behaviour, look at the list of subjects and lifestyles a user is not allowed to criticize.
Banning someone for criticizing trans ideology, but someone else is allowed to say “Gas the Jews”.
The fediverse has too many children who cry and throw a fit when someone expresses the wrong opinion, there are very few healthy function adults.
People who promote Mastadon and even Lemmy claiming freedom because of its federated services, is a lie they use to push tyrannical censorship for people having the wrong views, or wrong think, so they use services like ActivityPub where people are not allowed to prove them wrong, due to how traumatizing it is to read words on the internet that they don’t like.
No matter how bad centralized social media can be, at least there people have to be adults and handle criticisms and being corrected or challenged for what someone posts. There is no escaping all the evil cruel people who disagree and believe differently.
If you want a phone, buy a used Pixel, and flash GrapheneOS on it within about 15 minutes. All you do is connect Pixel to computer and use a web browser on computer for Graphene website to flash onto phone. There is no rooting of phone involved.
It’s a scam. He clearly has no web development knowledge, the website is very little effort, no maintenance or expansion of the site, and he is not technical at all. When was there any changes to the website brax.me and what changes were they?
To me knowledge, he has never shot a single instructional video. What he says is a mix of what he reads and his opinion, but he has never done a video showing how to do anything shawcasing his skill.
Looking at brax.me, I suspect he is targeting people who only know how to turn on a cell phone and know nothing more than that so that can’t find fault with anything he says and hopefully be amazed by his ramblings.
He is only about getting free money, he has no skills to teach and educate others how to do. He charges for services that others give for free. Such as the 4GB storage limit, multple Nextcloud sites provide free 10GB storage. He’s trying to make money without working.
You can do that too, use an Android VM. Whichever way works best or works easiest for you.
I use Whatsapp in that exact scenario that you are describing. It’s an old Android phone connected to wi-fi and the phone is never touched for anything outside of Whatsapp.
Having it setup that way, or for you with FB/IG, if there is no SIM in the phone, do not install anything else, no contacts in phone, you can effectively use it anonymously.
I suggest you use an Android phone so you can download APK files to install, disable Play Store and similar network services, and maybe once a month download the lastest APK and install to update it. I do that for Whatsapp or updating since I have all Google services disabled on the phone.
Voyager is on both platforms, Jebora is only for Android, both are pure open source so you have full privacy and anonymity.
I just made the switch from Molly to Langis. I prefer Molly but it’s a fork as opposed to a patched version removing proprietary dependancies so Langis is straight from Signal releases.