Please keep in mind that this is after tax incentives. So let’s just assume the tax incentives are zero and call it 27,000 just to be on the safe side.

I just started using it myself here very recently and so far I’ve only set up one automation but it is very useful. What I am truly excited to see is the Works with Home Assistant program badge. That way I can look at a device that I’m interested in and see whether or not I should spend my money on it. I don’t want anything to do with a device that I need a fucking cloud account for.

Oh, your computer is just a baby. I’m running a third generation Intel Core i7 in my laptop running Linux Mint. LOL.

As a screen reader user, I welcome new open source text to speech models.

Ideally, yes, you absolutely should. When doing this, you should expect to lose notifications from the vast majority of apps. And some apps will refuse to run such as Uber and Lyft. The notifications bit can somewhat be worked around by using “ntfy” from fdroid. mind you that only works for a few apps that support unified push but it’s better than nothing

Lightning is a steaming pile of horse shit. Anyone who thinks lightning is peer-to-peer is totally fooling themselves.

Ask duckduckgo for “Monero”. You are welcome

This was an interesting read. Also, if you’re willing to put up with some sacrifices, disabling Google Play services on your Android phone, or installing Lineage OS without Google services at all, will make your phone both run faster and have way better battery life. As an example, I own the Oneplus Nord N20 5G, and when I pulled it out of the box, it was super laggy and awful. And by installing Lineage OS on it with no Google Play services, it works fabulous.

If possible drop element for SimpleX. Key management is much much easier to prevent loss of chats and metadata is properly encrypted. In element, your message may be encrypted, but the time that the message was sent at is not encrypted, any reactions to that message is not encrypted, who you sent that message to is not encrypted, and who that message is from is not encrypted.

You’re already only using the account once per year. Just bite the bullet and delete the entire thing.

Possibly. Briar is mobile only as far as i know

I do believe it does have a desktop client.

Oh, i ditch family and friends who dont respect my personal data. Though its signal primary for me

Nostr relays over tor with snowflake proxy

True. Matrix is more for that. Or possibly SimpleX.

Use Mastodon. You can use a server outside of your country. And even if your country attempts to find the operator, 10% of their global turnover of zero is still zero.

Been using it since it came out and it works great. It can’t handle USB devices though, so the AOSP file manager has to be used for those.

Thats true.

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Yes, no.

Yes.

I think there’s an argument to be made here of why are we trusting certificate providers anyway since that just adds another layer of centralization and a choke point for governments to attack. Why not use self-signed certificates and have each search engine indexer also index the certificate and point out how long it has been since it has changed so that you can trust whatever search engine you wish instead of these mega centralized providers of certificates. If kagi, google, ddg, and quant (for example) are all in agreement about the validity of a cert i feel its likely trustworthy. If they start disagreeing thats when it may be time to DYOR. Besides, TOFU is much easier to set up.