The details might be technically correct but then the title is rage bait.

Then they should change their title to say free email addresses only.

Yes, paranoia is not healthy. When people can’t formulate a realistic threat model then usually to be “safe” they assume everyone is out there to get them … while failing the most basic steps, e.g. not relying on surveillance capitalist fueled tools voluntarily.

Nothing is preventing you from changing those email addresses to the one you now have on your own domain.

The ignorance from OP is not vendor lock-in.

No, Proton email addresses do not. I have ProtonMail addresses using my domain. If tomorrow I point to another email provider, Proton can do nothing about it.

Being paid feature vs free is not vendor lock-in.

You are spreading misinformation, either by misrepresenting the situation or by not understanding what “vendor” (an arguable term since apparently you are focusing on the free version) is lock-in means.

| works well for krita / excalidraw / xournalapp

Why Android though rather than Linux proper if your main apps are these?

No color proper though. I have the rM 2 and the new rM Pro and its amazing to sketch notes but draw art… not really.

Wish I could explain you in detail how that’s not correct but I’m actually going to play Clair Obscur on my 2080ti on Debian, sorry!

PS: been playing for years with NVIDIA drivers, including VR games, and sure it’s not 100% perfect but neither Windows drivers are. It sure is enough for me to keep on playing (and working) without major issue though. Anyway, gotta play!

enforce their privacy while using the web.

Welcome, so I can recommend

• actually using the Web, not apps, namely Meta control the content sure but not the browser and browser vendors are trying their best to make the experience safe
• not using a browser made by a vendor that is in fact an ad company
• using a browser with privacy measures, e.g Enhanced Tracking Protection
• use 3rd party extensions, e.g. uBlock Origin, AdBlock Plus, DeArrow, Ghostery, JS Shelter
• use containers or private mode when browsing doubtful content

can’t access any GitHub repositories without having to sign in. This is becoming frustrating.

Yes… also can’t search.

This is supposed to be OPEN source yet, enshittification by Microsoft here goes down its inexorable path. It started nicely then slowly but surely popular features are blocked behind restrictions, unpopular features are shoved down people through, more marketing is used to try to convince users are actually wrong, etc.

Please, do leave the platform and help others to do so.

Yep, running my own instance for years now.

To be fair though Gitea is by default much lighter than alternatives… because it’s also minimalist. There are but default no runners, no testing environments, etc that e.g. Gitlab provides.

Depends on your threat model. Are you hiding something from random strangers on your network? Your ISP? Apple? The US government? Another government?

unDEgoogle-able

then?

require buying additional hardware.

Trade with someone?

What is the main counterargument to this?

True, then enable your SIM when that happens. Not when you have a minor inconvenience but an actual emergency.

irks me that it’s mostly idling

Well it’s a small processor and relatively efficient one at that so… how about going the opposite direction? How about measuring the power draw on idle? With other task? I don’t actually know if that architecture handles that but I saw some things on the do https://developer.arm.com/documentation/100095/0002/functional-description/power-management/dynamic-power-management?lang=en

Also what about using a RPi Zero instead?

Right, I was starting to think “Oh yeah and maybe I could fzf history…” then wait, I already do that reverse-i-search then edit. If I use that often enough, alias in ~/.bashrc or even function to make it composable.

IMHO it goes deeper than getting your biometrics, namely do you trust your government? If you do not … then finding “tricks”, technical or legal, will not help in the long run. You need a new government either by changing the one you have or if in feasible becoming citizen of one you do trust.

So… yes necessary “evil” but I’d argue the question is rather how to held the government holding your data accountable, not how to find ways not to have your government hold data. Your government having your data is precisely what let you legally exist and it’s hard to imagine, but maybe it’s just my own shortcomings, being able to exist in a legal system without identifying you as an individual. Note though that this is NOT the same as surveillance.

been running linux and bsd for 15 years, and now I’ve realized that my phone and the services I use have been a blind spot.

Exactly! Few months ago a friend was home and I was proudly showcasing my HomeAssistant on RPi, all ZigBee, no non-standards IoT, no vendor lock-in, SteamDeck to play on Linux, streaming videos with VLC on my video projector via miniDLNA, etc. He was impressed… then asked “Right, and what’s your phone?” to which I, quite ashamed, had to confess I was relying on an iPhone. It was secure, no Android, etc. On that day I thought “Ok… ok I got PinePhones, I got other gadgets but somehow this specific part of my digital life is wrong!” and thought I should try, even if it wouldn’t work, something else. I also wanted, due to geopolitics (sadly), a non American solution so checked https://volla.online/ which looked wonderful but too expensive for a test. Noticed Murena, French based, refurbished or even new phones but much lower price but still paying for service and I hope for /e/OS maintenance and voila, found a compromise that works for me for now!

S,T,U are build versions, where S and T are official and U is community. You can see a discussion on https://community.e.foundation/t/difference-between-e-os-builds/60585/7

It’s not about privacy per se but Tridactyl “A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl.” because, like Userscripts - Tampermonkey, you can basically redesign any website.

A basic privacy oriented solution I made was using autocmd https://tridactyl.xyz/build/static/docs/modules/_src_excmds_.html#autocmd to redirect YouTube content to my local https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local and that works even with embeds.