I thought the more important point is whether airplane mode really makes your phone ping the towers. If it has any cellular connection, it is obvious there would would be triangulation.

Yeah, that’s the reason I never fully used their mail. The bridge is a paid-only feature, and they don’t accept Monero for some reason, only Bitcoin.

Yeah, fair. Still, Graphene was very easy to install and I think that my mom would’ve been able to use the web installer.

At least Android has degoogled variants.

I would never be able to afford Apple tech even if I somehow didn’t mind using a phone I cannot install arbitrary apps on. So yeah, no idea. I use RiMusic on my Android, but the downloads happen on the laptop with yt-dlp.

I guess profiles also help?

That is exactly what I do. A client on the phone for discovery on the go, later yt-dlp on the laptop and proper tagging.

I am doing just that. I indeed use Youtube Music for discovering and downloading new tracks, but alos yt-dlp every video I like. Because I am afraid Youtube might at some point be taken away, like loginwalled.

At least Youtube Music can be used with third-party clients.

Yeah, they’re kind of even doing the opposite with the control freak mindset, such as being hostile to third-party clients or even distribution outside of Play Store! (seriously, the apk download is hidden by a dark pattern)

Closed-source and not available on most people’s computers.

And what’s just as important - not as resilient.

I do use cash when possible indeed! But Monero is for things that you can’t physically receive in a store’s office, like a domain name. It’s not a lot, but it is necessary. Gift cards are not available everywhere, and the ones available somewhere would not necessarily work in other countries.

I think cash-like anonymity is something we do really need in online payments. For me personally it is not critical. But I would still not like my VPS and domain name KYCed to me, for example if, say, something like censorship evasion is prosecuted retrospectively.

That doesn’t have any of the privacy and anonymity features. I’d have to read more on this project, though - did hear about it before. Also, what’s relevant right now is that it’s not accepted as commonly as even Monero (which in itself is sadly not as common as Bitcoin).

Alternatives - like what? I understand the concerns but for now Monero is the closest we have to “digital cash”. Hope there would eventually be a more energy-efficient successor.

Yeah. Such as: blocking the playback until the user disabled their adblocker, making it impossible to access 18+ content without signing up, repeatedly breaking third-party clients and frontends, apparently blocking the playback if the user is behind a VPN… I am now afraid they might eventually demand a login just to use the site at all. Doing my part in downloading everything I like at least.

They even admitted this, lol. “Oopsie, our flagship server implementation doesn’t scale. Here, we made a commercial version for your bigger deployments”.

If the initial swap is from Bitcoin, there is Bisq - that’s been around for much longer than Haveno. Not tried myself, though.

My issue is that it is just much heavier. My XMPP server consumes a fraction of RAM and CPU that my Matrix server does.

However, unlike Signal, you can exclude external participating servers entirely.

(I heavily prefer XMPP to Matrix tho, even though I host both)