As someone have said, lemmy.world blocks VPNs.

But I’m curious, why are you sometimes using VPN, but other times exposing your real IP? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose, since your instance admins would still have your real IP, once you have accessed your account from your real IP, even once.

Either use VPN all the time, or just don’t bother. A half-assed approach doesn’t really do anything.

"I thought it was just a normal day. I mean, 4 years, how long could that be. Then one day, out of nowhere, I heard a bunch of helicopters hovering, and I heard sirens wailing. Just another day of police chases, I thought, nothing unusual. I went on my laptop and tried to watch a Youtube Video, but the browser says ‘Unable to connect’. I tried to use my phone’s hotspot, same thing. I tried to call a friend, but calls keep geting dropped, and even SMS says ‘undeliverable’. My phone says ‘Emergency Only’ instead of the carrier name. Oh well, I’m bored and there’s nothing to do, I guess I’ll just do my grocerry shopping early. I drive to the grocerry store and on the way there, I saw a bunch of soldiers with a roadblock thing and… it’s a checkpoint…

The next thing I saw on my phone was an emergency alert ‘Martial Law has been Declared Nationwide effective immediately…’"

Walter saw the white supremacists and went “nope”, “I might be a drug dealer, but I ain’t a dirty bigot”

“He who save his country does not violate the law” 😏

The Arnold Method

teslas aren’t even worthy of the designation “self-driving”. They use cheap cameras instead of LIDAR. It should be illegal to call such junk “self-driving”.

Remember, you have the right to self-defence, against both rogue robots and rogue humans.

Well then…

As a #SovereignCitizen, I will not comply with FAA drone laws 😏

Bonus points: Y’all can use an app called Rattlegram to convert a sting of text into audio that can be played over amateur radio. And if you encrypt the text beforehand using encryption tools such as Secure Space Encryptor (known as Paranoia Text Encryption on iOS), or Open PGP (both are open source), before pasting the ciphertext into Rattlegram (also open source), you have encrypted off-grid communications.

This is #Murica! The president can ignore laws. So can we. 😎

Bruh

I guess Germany is fascist for banning the nazi party then? 🤔

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“The attack on my life has left me scarred” 🤣

Hmmm

I skimmed the webpage and seems like some minimalist phone, which cannot adequetely replace many functions of a modern smartphone.

Fairphone works in Europe, but in the US, for example, only Tmobile allows fairphones, the other carriers, while there nothing technological that prevents them fron working, the carriers being being really shit about it. And Tmovile could also become hostile with a flip of a switch. So yea, that’s a huge issue, unless you want a wifi-only device.

I fear in the future, devices will be more strictly locked down because of “terrorism” “scams” “fraud” or “criminial activity” that allows the authorities, worldwide, to control devices even more. Perhaps, computers could also face such lockdowns.

I mean, look at drones. One harmless crash on the US whitehouse lawn triggered a lot of laws restricting them, inclusing the infamous DJI Geo-locking. One terrorisr using encrypted messaging apps to coordinate would allow governments to control our communications even further. All locked bootloaders. Perhaps even locked BIOS/UEFIs. Imagine such a future.

The future looks bleak. It’s not even like 1984, the reality of dystopia is more subtle. People are being stalked by the government, while there are parties are happening all around, that is what dystopia looks like.

China turned QR codes red to restrict people’s movements on the pretenses of Covid. The US trump admin could do the same with QR code IDs to “prove you are a citizen” with checkpoints throughout the country.

(Sorry if it kinda got offtopic, but still kinda relevent)

Sadly, no linux phones that are actually usable.

Disclaimer, I don’t use GrapheneOS. But I did mess around with multi-users on Motorola Phones.

I’d recommend having a bunch of decoy stuff, you know, non-political stuff, on the main profile, and have your anti-government activities on the second profile. This way, if you see cops following you, you can delete the second profile (I hope you have frequent backups btw), then if the cops ask to see your phone, you could show them your totally innocent main profile.

(not saying you should show them your phone, but it is an option if you wanna, say, cross a border)

Let me give you an analogy.

I was born in the People’s Republic of China. I immigrated to the United States of America when I was not even 10. I grew up in America, I grew attached to the principles of Freedom and Democracy. I went through the proper channels and I obtained Citizenship through the proper way. I am an American.

If someone were to tell me that I’m “not American”, and that because I was “born Chinese, I must be Chinese for the rest of my life”; or, in your phrasing: “A Chinese person cannot become American” you’d be a xenophobe.

Gender is a social contruct. If a man wants to be a woman, or a woman wants to be a man, just let them. Its not denying that they have XX or XY chromosomes, that is what their biology says. But being a “Man” or “Woman” are labels society attributes to those chromosomes, just like the concept of Nationality.

TLDR: Please just let people be whoever they want to be. If you start attacking people’s identity, nobody is gonna wanna talk to you. If you want to spread transphobia, you can go to twitter. Enjoy your nazi bar.

Really?

I’ve used Samsung and Motorola Android phones, I can set them up offline.

I assume every other OEM is the same.

Apple does this.

Microsoft is now doing this.

I wonder how long until Google start doing it with Android 🤔

This future is so fucking dystopian

Eh, you don’t really have a point when people get banned for saying men aren’t women.

Please elaborate? What exactly do you mean?