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using the tor browser is the safest, easiest and most practical solution. while they CAN fingerprint the tor browser, its the exact same fingerprint for everyone making tracking it effectively meaningless, and you get a random IP to boot.

the problem is some sites block it and you have to insist a bit.

whats some?

i think neither method is fun. tor is more practical (and more private) than hooking and configuring a bunch of extensions that may or may not work well into firefox imo.

i use tor to be annonymous, and a regular browser for trusted sites or ones not working without JS/blocked on tor. i tend not to use sites that are too annoying about blocking tor unless i really need it.

is it possible to burn them out permanently?

esp now that the owner is a known fascist

talk to the archive team at their irc channel or take a look at the website. they are sometimes looking for programmers, archivists, donors or a variety of people to help with what they need.

consider running the warrior too. its pretty lightweight.

if that doesnt work out, with that storage space you could also back up a bunch of wikipedia and still spare. they have torrents and dumps of their stuff publicly available.

soooo, honest opinions of discord users here: hows matrix nowadays? what are the other options?

depends on your threat model.

want to hide from advertising and general automated corpo creepness? sure. a reasonably hardened iphone will mostly do the trick.

want to hide from governments, three letter agencies or similar baddies who could simply order apple to give you the info? fuck no. apple unilaterally controls all the code that runs on it, and is itself subject to them.

theres the fact signal uses your phone number too…

ill also remind you to use the archive team warrior to help them out, if you have spare server space.

it helps them archive content in closed services like reddit, telegram, youtube and such.

furthermore, if you have a ton of spare storage space and free time, consider helping back up their archive.

i’m sure ai can help with that

to be fair linus shouldnt have to come scold adults into acting like adults, yet here we are.

i keep having issues and bugs on nextcloud. maybe i should try opencloud

you can definetly spell “linux” without “cop”

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ive been getting the same error, even on regular youtube frontend. it usually goes away after a while.

are you really? thanks for your service.

okay

i dont use sms a lot, so i dont have a good rec here. i just need one that can block the spam, and any will do for me.

you can start by replacing the apps you already use. don’t need to overwhelm yourself and do it all at once.

replacing chrome for firefox is a good place to start. or using aurora and fdroid instead of google play. or heliboard instead of google board. start small.

it will depend on what you are using and how. some things are hard to replace, some has multiple better alternatives.

“the EU is a pioneer of privacy!”

yeah sure. we can only guarantee privacy if we control the software and hardware involved.

told me to never let the computer update

probably beause sometimes, they sneak in stuff we may not want with updates. totally understand where hes coming from.

graphene and lineage

every few months, every few days, or every other day. depends on device.

updating every few months or so is good enough for most people. alternative, open source software wont really come with garbage anyway, so no big deal.