Elon: “and I took that personally…”

I suggest Matrix/Xmpp over any of it, but good luck getting anyone’s lazy friends to register to use anything. Signal and similar messengers have easier onboarding.

Signal: “I’m right over here, guys! Just click on me, install me, tell your friends. Hellooo!”

I got that disroot joint, homie. My googs is only temporary while I slowly migrate the sites I have it registered to.

reaches the 200,001th bend

snap

Damnit!

That idea go any further on the something other than “get shot and dragged into a van”?

It’s America’s concentration camp for undesirables.

For me? It’s Qwant and <INSERT FIREFOX FORK>.

I degoogled for the first time two days ago aaaaand, it’s actually way easier than I expected and actually, dare I say… fun?

Fun in that I have new apps to try, all over the place. I spent that whole evening combing f-droid for everything I need and got it all sorted out.

SMS? Backed up

Contacts? Backed up

Photos? Syncthing’d

Passwords? I’m a card carrying Keepass user.

Music? Pulled down my streaming service from Aurora and it just works.

Email? Thunderbird’d’d

Cloud? Mini PC’d and NFS’d

Google? Gone and not missed.

…they need encryption backdoors? I was under the impression 99% of mainstream social media sites would willingly give sensitive information up for free without any hassle.

Time to cut it up into 4-6 different companies that will all collude together anyway.

“Normal man” gets a new phone

accepts 6 agreements from 6 split companies

Same result, different road.

Don’t connect it at all and just use an Android TV box or dongle.

Don’t connect a computer monitor to the internet?..

Also put the OS into perspective. The specs might not do for Android normally but might be just fine functionally, for Linux.

Samsung still is terrible. You can’t disable their store or utilities. They always pop right back up and start themselves. One might argue that’s hardly a problem when phones have 6GB+ of Ram now and better battery optimization, but on budget phones that some people get “free” from carriers, it makes them lag-ridden slogs to use.

…good.

The reason people use Pixels has always been utility. The Ai garbage was like putting jelly on a biscuit.

I don’t mind the jelly, personally, but I came for the biscuit, and its still there.

You can still root them, still unlock them, still use custom Roms, kernels, operating systems in some cases. They’re still what they’ve always been.

Is the botnet itself breaking the law or is breaking the law with a botnet breaking the law?

I feel like I have simpler reasons for leaving Reddit.

The third party apps quit working and the site and app run like shit and take forever to load.

Simple problems, simple solutions.