Yes. https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp4/release/focal

Get a Pinephone, or a Fairphone with Ubuntu. More privacy and more features than dumb phones.

Well, maybe you are:

• Planning a surprise party
• Leaving a job
• Trying to escape an abusive relationship
• Famous
• Writing a detective novel
• A writer without a publisher
• Searching about an embarrassing medical condition
• Having a crush in someone
• In the closet
• A teenager with controlling parents
• Having a hobby that’s considered embarrassing or childish
• Having a psycho stalker
• Buying a present from Santa
• A reporter who doesn’t want to reveal their sources
• Buying a toilet and you don’t want toilet recommendations for the rest of your life
• Lending your computer to someone, and you don’t want your recommended videos to change
• Under an NDA

… Or maybe you’re talking with someone who’s in one of those categories.

We have to normalise privacy in order to keep these people safe. For instance, it’s a stupid example but it works, if I always use private browser windows, my husband won’t suspect anything when I’m looking for a gift for him.

That’s only the tip of the iceberg and it’s not even touching some bigger problems:

• You can be profiled based on your likes, social media posts, purchase history, etc, and maybe used for election results manipulation, or who knows what else. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it has happened, see for instance Cambridge Analytica.
• Maybe the political situation will change in the future. Oops, now your data is suddenly in the hands of a malicious dictator.
• If you keep a backdoor open to let the “good and trusted” actors in, there’s no way to not let malicious actors in as well.

SlimSocial for Facebook works, it’s just slow.

It happened in a Starbucks. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hSdYkgHuRdU/VNuzCLxuMuI/AAAAAAAADWQ/yHeBV1XPfT4/s640/blogger-image-658967424.jpg

I use this and you can preemptively create some groups you can share your location to, then turn those on. If this works for you.

Well, it’s a Tuesday so that means I can get fresh fish in my local street market. Nothing much going on otherwise.

I use NextCloud News, it’s super convenient and also syncs between my phone and computer. I use it for reading the news (playing hide and seek with one news site after another when they inevitably disconnect their RSS/Atom support), for the webcomics I follow, and for keeping up with friends’ blogs.

Ah, maybe the difference is that my parents smoked when I was very small. Eventually they both quit and now they both hate the smell. But yes, I also grew up before the smoking ban.

Fair enough. I guess it was so common when I was growing up that I never realised it.

A “simply explained” kind of book, “even foxes can understand”.

Super happy. I’ve had mine since pre-pandemic and it’s still working perfectly. It’s even survived an accidental mud bath, I could then open it up myself and clean it.

Fairphone with /e/OS. I also like the fair-trade and repairability aspects of it.

Nextcloud Tasks?

Well, at least you could send a link to a friend who doesn’t have a Reddit account and they could view it. Now they’d be greeted with a friendly “install the app or get out” screen, and let’s be real, they wouldn’t install a whole app just to view the occasional link you’d send them.

• Two NextCloud instances, one is a RPi4 with a big external HDD which I use for backups, the other one contains everything else, including PhoneTrack. Happy to have a self-hosted privacy-friendly way to share my location with family.
• Email using mailcow.
• Jabber server using prosody. Using it with immediate family and two friends. Still super happy.
• Web server including personal blogs. Currently looking to migrate away from Wordpress into something static without comments.
• pihole
• Half-finished home automation stuff.

Do we need it to officially migrate? We just need an AITA community with at least a small handful of users, and there’s one right here.