Do you use some kind of encryption on the VPS?

How do you make sure the disk spins down? Is unmounting enough?

I look forward to Digital Wellbeing.

Considering this won’t hit stable distros any time soon, any recommendations for alternatives?

Bring back call recording APIs. I don’t want to root my phone to get back basic functionality.

Any source that is readable without an account?

Any sources for this?

Is there any disk usage tool that allows you to browse the tree while it’s still being calculated, prioritizing current directory?

What ways do you use to run Steam games without Steam? The Goldberg emulator?

Is there an official source for this?

The article links to this blog post, but I did not see anything relevant in it:

https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-drop-march-2025/

As a side question, are there other free DNS providers besides Cloudflare? Ones that don’t require you to register your domain there.

I liked reading both of your arguments, and I think they have merit on both sides. I’m sorry to see this became hostile, but I think the discussion up go the parent comment was good. I hope next one will stay friendly!

I had not heard of Revolt before. Here is a link:

https://revolt.chat/

jrnl is a CLI tool worth mentioning when it comes to journaling, but does not cover your listed needs.

What free software alternatives are there?

Disable YouTube app from opening URLs. Use Firefox + uBlock Origin instead. No ads.

https://github.com/Fr4gorSoftware/SecScanQR

SecScanQR can not scan from an image.

Many phones specifically blow fuses in the device to make sure that attempts to downgrade will fail for security reasons.

I think you are mixing e-fuses (Samsung) and tamper-evident storage (Pixel). First one is used to lock Knox after rooting, second one to prevent downgrades.

Can you elaborate what the risk is?

Sweden wants a backdoor. I hope that idiocy is shot down fast.

In what way is Tuta’s encryption better?