Yes, you are a kid. Call me when you can still sit like that at twice your current age.

You’re a kid. It will pass.

Hypersexuality perhaps.

Nope. No deal. I need my downtime to recover.

GrapheneOS supports the 7 a until May 2028 with extended support 5 years https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-lifetime

Bought Pixel 7 a new for 335 EUR. Refurbished is another option.

Definitely not. Sustainable hunter-gatherer population density is tiny. Sweden as a whole has a low bioproductivity.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01548-3

And when pastoralists and farmers arrived it was game over for them https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06862-3

Vanadium: Your Results Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 61101.0 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 15.9 bits of identifying information.

Oh, a new symptom. I was wondering why I was doing that. Also watching dozens of Crunchyroll series at the same time.

Proud digital commie since 1988 or thereabouts.

Apparently, they don’t need my business. Acceptable.

Thanks, useful information.

1. Do not have a mobile device
2. Do not install anything proprietary or governmental on that device you don’t have
3. Use borderline secure (GrapheneOS) OS on that device you don’t have and don’t unlock it if demanded unless your health and/or life is in danger

Does XMPP have feature parity with Matrix? I presume that bridges exist?

Thanks. It’s slightly worse than I thought. I’m kinda limited to communication with my small peer group, so I don’t notice that other user classes exist.

Many people run Tor nodes. I also used to run exits until dealing with complaints became onerous, then I ran middlemen for many years. In general one should only pipe encrypted traffic through Tor, and be it just for malicious exits which sniff and tamper with your traffic. There are use cases for using Tor together with a VPN tunnel, but these need careful consideration.

Or you could just use Tor.

They are quite simply corrupt. It doesn’t matter what they privately think. Corruption includes personal immunity, as long as you toe the line.

Well, yes, but privacy in the current world is not free, even if it involves some own thought and planning. Being wary of defaults and being aware of implications one’s choices bring is of course too inconvenient for many. But these do not get to complain.

Poor people (who still can afford the end devices and an Internet plan) can of course share the costs in a community, or use one of the many free servers, as long as they are aware of the tradeoffs. Beigers not being choosers, and all that.