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Have you tried getting a louder alarm clock?

Like plug your phone to a powerful speaker system that reaches 100dB. That should wake everyone.

Doesn’t have to be expensive or HiFi, just loud.

May not be an option if you have neighbours tho.

Also, I’ve noticed that I can sleep through music and vaccum cleaner just fine, but I find certain sounds like TV speaking stressful, so maybe try finding an “annoying” sound.

But you can summon a touch volume control from the buttons.

Don’t all children do that?

I used to shew on everything, my friend used to literally destroy pens by shewing them too much. I think it’s normal.

Why do you want a middle class? That implies the existence of a lower and upper class.

Instead we need to abolish classes

Nevermind the donation pop-up, how can people use gnome? It’s unusable, it interface is literally the worse UI I’ve ever had the displeasure of using only second to macOS.

I believe that gnome is actually what is keeping many people away from gnu/linux, since it’s default on many distros, people install “linux” and they get gnome and gnome sucks so they hate on linux instead of hating gnome.

You can pirate on your phone just fine, there’s libretorrent on f-droid, new pipe can stream and download stuff from youtube and youtube music, you can also download from deezer on telegram with @linemusicbot and @deezload2bot.

(Rimusic and kreator also exist but are buggy)

Funny because I have the exact opposite experience.

Most of my life I’ve lived in a tiny apartment, so tiny that I literally can’t keep my room cleared because have no space to store my stuff.

Yes, I can literally walk to the nearest, coffee place, or take a subway to the mall or cinema or whatever people usually like to go, but I have no interest in those places, instead I would love to live in a rural place where I can walk along nature or just rest outside without being right in the middle of people and traffic and ugly buildings.

Oh, and the worse part, my new neighbors that don’t let me blast my guitar amp or listen to music past 10

OK, so, I literally just finished watching Lovecraft Country and I was thinking “this was so tragic, it’s good to know history made things right and this kind of institutionalized racism doesn’t exist anymore, now lets check Lemmy”, oh shit…

For now, everything is speculation and there’s no way to know how google will implement the new restrictions, for example, google could disable installing apk from the OS, but still allow sideloading from adb, and then f-droid and helper apps could somehow use adb to go around it. It’s still too early to tell.

One thing I can be somewhat certain is that custom roms won’t have this restriction so if you get a phone that supports graphene OS, lineageOS, /e/is, etc, you shouldn’t have to worry with it.

Which leads to another question, do you need google services? I personally don’t but some people are tied to it for some reason, banking apps? Gladly my bank works on the web browser, or else I would just switch banks.

Alternatively you can keep your iphone as a banking/government machine on your other pocket.

As for what phone to get, if you can afford an iphone, you can afford the latest pixel and install graphene OS on it, graphene OS offers the most privacy and security, in certain cases a slightly older device can be cheaper, but note that newer devices offer 7 years support, rather 5, so you have to calculate the cost by dividing the price by the remaining years of support.

Alternatively if you can’t afford a pixel the cheapest (but not so good) solution I think it’s a nothing CMsomething* phone one with /e/OS, but do your own research.

There is no property! They made the whole thing up!

Maybe we should start calling it GNU/Linux again, I myself am to blame of starting to call it just Linux in recent years.

That’s probably enough to stop your online mates from doxing you, but a powerful enough adversary can trace the little unique nuanced fingerprints that a camara lens introduces to the picture, and compare it with images from other sources like social media.

There are are many steps that can introduce patterns, like the way the lens blurs as explained in the article, sensor readout noise patterns, a speckle of dust, scratches, I bet chromatic aberrations are probably also different between multiple copies of the lens.

It’s old news that you should never use the same camera for two images that need separate identities.

The same applies to, radio transmitters and every analogue medium like probably microphone or preamp or ADC.

Anything that doesn’t work on purely digital domain is most likely traceable and I wouldn’t be surprised if proprietary software like Adobe started embedding hidden fingerprints into their files to “enforce their copyright” or “better collaborate with law enforcement”

I tend to complain that ROMs like Graphene OS don’t allow spoofing IMEI which should be basic functionally of every privacy-enabled phone. Yet if you require real privacy the electronic “fingerprint” of the radio itself is probably enough to track someone if they really want to.

There’s also a thing where they can track someone’s time and location just from listening to oscillations on the utility power’s frequency

While not full proof, but you can always sandbox it with firejail or bubblewrap.

But make sure to read the documentation thoroughly.

I used to be very against Chinese infrastructure, but after all, why is European/American spyware better again?

As with all google products, youtube also went from bad to worse, but it’s still enough of a giant monopoly so that they can keep making decisions that fucks both the user and the content creators without real consequences.

Nice corporate ad…

I would rather “despair” with a community based distro than using capitalistware were that graph true, however my Arch machine works perfectly fine and have no need to do so. On the other hand corporate distros…

I like simplex a lot on android, it supports e2ee calls which afaik xmpp doesn’t.

However simplex is still buggy, and sometimes messages don’t get through until the other party restarts the app. And the desktop app seems to be even buggier and has no native Wayland support.

I’ve used xmpp + otr for many years, it seems to be the most stable solution if calls aren’t a concern.

There are many clients to choose from, many of which are modern enough to support Wayland and are written in save languages (in the Whonix wiki there’s a nice xmpp client comparison you may be interested in)

Nowadays omemo seems to be the replacement for OTR, it’s a shame it doesn’t support Socialist Milionares Protocol like OTR did.

IMO locked bootloader isn’t that important as graphene OS devs make it sound, but I would NEVER trust a software “found on telegram”.

I have used unofficial lineage OS before, but that phone was just an entertainment machine, with no personal information on it.

Graphene OS however has security features that other ROMs don’t have like improved encryption.

However Pixels are too expensive, I can’t afford them either. I’m thinking as an alternative getting a Nothing phone cm 1 (or something) which is much cheaper than a pixel and can run official /e/ OS

I hope that the new OEM includes a phone that people can actually afford.