I don’t use a PC for very much anymore, so I have little need to use my laptop. But when I do, I’ve honestly just gone with Linux Mint just because it works. And I have Lineage OS on my phone, which is my primary computing device.

And i no longer use Ubuntu. I remember that too. I also remember such large push back that it was removed

https://guardianproject.info/2024/02/24/the-future-of-our-fdroid-compatible-app-repository/

They are on the Guardian Project repository which is no longer in the fdroid app by default to the best of my understanding. So you have to go at it yourself.

Also, orbot is shit, use inviZible to stay updated with the latest tor daemon releases

Agree

I think it was a great idea, but poorly executed. I prefer using simpleX, personally.

No, it’s really not. Primarily, because I’m using LineageOS with absolutely no Google services at all installed.

If my Linux distro searched the internet, when I opened my launcher, I’d be finding a new Linux distro.

Yep, just set your Wi-Fi routers to use 6GHD and trample all over the other people in the band until they figure out that they can’t control it.

That is your opinion and an opinion that we do not share. I agree with you that most cryptocurrencies are bad.

However, there are some real diamonds mixed in with the lumps of coal, and you should really try to find them.

I use controld.com p2 dns over tls which kills known malware, tracking, and ads. I have it set up as a standard DNS provider on my home network so that everybody uses it and it works great.

Neat idea. Kagi is doing something similar for search, where they can verify that you have paid for the privilege of using the service, but can’t link your actual account.

If promoting decentralized censorship resistant private money makes me a criminal then I’m happy to be a criminal.

If you need to see criminals, just look up pictures of politicians and you’ll find them.

Monero aims to be the digital equivalent of cash. You give it to somebody and nobody except for you and the person you give it to know that that transaction occurred and how much that transaction was for.

Monero has no history associated with it, so one Monero will always equal one Monero because there’s no way of telling whether that Monero was used to buy a hamburger or cocaine in the past.

That’s what actually makes me think that it could happen. Just because it was an official source.

Well, maybe that person didn’t have permission to speak like that, but they said that they would get it into the summer plans in a screenshot right on the page.

Yeah, I know. But in that petition, there’s actually a screenshot of a tweet from the Proton VPN person.

I’ve been using proton for several years but I’m moving to tutmta because I can pay for the service with Monero and that is incredibly important to me. I also own my own custom domain that I’m able to pay for with Monero. So I don’t have to worry about constantly switching emails because I can just set up my custom domain with the new email provider and all my old email addresses still work.

I said nothing about the agency whatsoever. I don’t give a shit what they see as compliant or not. If it’s not open source, I won’t fucking use it.

As long as the wearable contains open source software and preferably open source hardware, then sure, I’d be willing to do so. Because then I could know that I could control where the data went.