So real 😭

Yeah, my point was that it could be made better eventually it would be safe enough to use.

I could probably have my phone on airplane mode all the time and no one would notice, I never pick up anyones calls to begin with.

Public transport pretty much always works everywhere that isn’t a country town with like 5 people living there, and at that point you could just walk or ride around.

If there is low demand you can start with a small community bus, then increase the amount of buses and lines. Increase the size of the bus. Then maybe build a tram line etc…

I’m not saying your govenment will do this but it is almost always possible and faster, safer and more comfortable. Unless you really enjoy driving or prefer the privacy that it offers (debatable but still somewhat valid) in which case public transport and other viable alternatives to driving is still the only real way to reduce traffic for drivers.

I don’t have mullvadvpn but I use a different vpn that has obfuscation and I have tried every single setting within it but somehow some networks can still detect the vpn no matter what I try. I am not sure how they can do this.

At least by turning on airplane mode they cannot track your location.

Using public wifi with no protections is already pretty secure since most things are encrypted now days. Using a trusted vpn to encrypt all of your traffic makes it almost perfect, since no people in the same network as you can have the faintest clue as to what your doing.

edit: It’s probably not almost perfect but definetly far better than using mobile data.

Mildly unrelated point that I wanted to say here, ive found that I can now find the answers to a lot of my questions by putting lemmy in the search bar instead of reddit. There definetly arent as many results but they are usually higher quality than redits.

At this point “uses signal” is all the metadata they need.

Mindustry, great open source game. Although it was so addictive I ended up deleting it. Now I don’t have any games on my phone.

And most phones are shipped with software that is often difficult to change.

Way ahead of me

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China is a country that doesn’t care about the individual.

Literally a country dictated by it’s individuals

Yes. I have an s22 and am stuck with it just like you, I would love a google pixel.

I have gone through all the “trouble” of doing all that and it’s definetely worthwhile, you can get rid of a lot of unessesary things. Definetly DON’T sign up for a samsung account, although it will try very hard to make you sign up.

F-droid isn’t a pain, it’s an awesomeness. Everytime you try to download a simple app like a stopwatch or something it’s usually really bad and littered with spyware and ads, the developers who make these apps don’t use the apps themselves. The quality of F-droid apps and other open source apps are so much better while having better privacy.

To extend that, people that have there notification sound on all the time is really annoying, just leave it on vibrate it’s just as useful!

I guess it could be a decent consideration if I can find a way to anonymously get a sim, not really much point otherwise.

Would using an old phone as an external cellular hotspot be almost just as private as using an application specific device?

I just looked at the video and wondered that since there kinda expensive (also I wouldn’t be able to use the calyx hotspots since I don’t live in the US)

Just a random man, no one important in particular.

Of course I use proton.

If your gaming on linux and not using proton either your doing it wrong or somehow you only have native games.