you are not required to have your phone with you. you are not dropped from the registration if your phone does not send your location for 3 (or any) days. cellular location tracking is bad but not as accurate as GPS tracking russia will be doing there.

that’s not accurate enough

I wouldn’t buy an SSD for storage like that. It’s more expensive than a hard drive, for being faster, but this is not your OS drive, you don’t need that added performance. hard drives are plenty fast when you are just using it casually, without your operating system and various installed programs actively using it for lots of random reads. they are capable of 100 MB/s reads and writes, as fast but often faster than a gigabit internet connection, which is the maximum a common computer can handle. unless you got a HDD with SMR tech, which will become slower when used as an IT pro, but unless you use it in an array or you write extreme amounts to it at once, it’s not going to be a problem.

Besides, SSDs also lose their data quicker when left unpowered for a long time. I really think they are a bad, ill-considered choice for that task. a choice driven by adverts.

Storing your most important, irreplaceable pictures on someone else’s computer ONLY, with no control over them? That’s an insane practice.

But it’s SOOOOOO convenient! I deserve the convenience! take my money, take my data, I am no weirdo and I need no privacy, just let me have convenience without having to think through anything at all!

You either have to opt for convenience or privacy/preformance/security. You can’t have all things at once.

you don’t need to make linux to be hard to use. but it seems that’s what you want.

Commedore is back in business,

you mean, a different company with the same name. that commodore is not back in business. pointing this out because it sets the wrong expectations.

and it’s OS is de-googled android

that’s not true. it does have toogle play, and all the other google components required by license to have that.

but it has good support for degoogled roms, even eelockable bootloader for safety with supported roms.

maybe you could keep whatsapp on the cheapest phone you can find. it can also probably be turned off when not being used. this is what I would do.

what do you think they should use? something that is requiring online registration, and is uploading their pictures and documents to its creator, against the user’s best interest?

any distro that enables flatpak out of the box will let you install both of these browsers. fedora is one like that. if you are using a KDE based desktop, typing their name in the app launcher will offer to install them (after the flatpak database was downloaded once, that should happen some time after first boot)

when using a user friendly distro, this does not require much understanding I think. bot of course, without any understanding, there will be issues. like if someone doesn’t know the computer is supposed to be shut down before cutting power to it.

only thing that means is ypu don’t know what else is it doing in the background. you are operating in “what I don’t see doesn’t exist” mode

smaller providers are not so brave and quick with bans, or it would hurt their image. big providers don’t need to care about their image anymore.

But like. It’s fine. You can turn most of the annoying stupid shit like copilot off.

you can turn most of it off… by hunting the internet for the right tools for that. Because built in settings certainly don’t allow disabling the majority of it. until they turn them back on with an update.
and the rest you just can’t turn off, or can’t reasonably discover.

windows is not fine. that ended with windows 7.

you need to subscribe for a domain name for that

does it even have a different response for banned accounts?

It’s a really interesting thing that happens, Pixelfed put me in touch with some amazing industry photographers like NatGeo dudes and such, and it’s actually got my photography career properly started.

that sounds amazing!

I don’t think there is any use in reducing all internet conversations to just seeking social acceptance. you could just apply that to all conversations whatsoever. then why speak with others, and why go out of the house, it’s all just seeking fame or whatever right?

I don’t think it works that way.

ahh just the regular AI shilling comment from eyekaytee. do you comment in any other topic whatsoever?

it seems piefed has put upma login wall in recent weeks. I’m not sure what does that prevent other than regular users visiting links…

it seems piefed has put upma login wall in recent weeks. I’m not sure what does that prevent other than regular users visiting links…

Enable Wireless debugging

not everyone has wifi at home, and this doesn’t work without one. It’s also very complicated for people. it is basically a wall around a garden.

also you either have to set adb over wifi to automatically turn on when connecting to that wifi, which is not that safe, or turn it on manually every time you want to install apps or updates. with that, the recent android feature to allow 3rd party stores to update their apps without a prompt goes out the window.