Most modern cars are SIM-enabled and are constantly sending data back to the mothership. But even those that aren’t will still collect data locally and that data will be collected when you send the car to an “official/licenced/authorized” repair shop.

Yep, Albania works (3 other random countries I tried didn’t). I guess this is a block on the RT side, not Mullvad. Thanks.

Oh, haven’t heard that before. Do you have a link?

No, it doesn’t.

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Kvaesitso launcher on my phone works fine with internet access cut off (which is a thing you can do on GrapheneOS). Weather, calendar, etc. still work because it integrates with external apps for all that. It’s also FOSS.

Yep, smspool. For VoIP it’s JMP.Chat locally, and. silent.link when I travel (data only).

That’s fair, if Amazon gets your real name and address anyways, the privacy protection of paying with Monero isn’t as big of a deal.

I pay for my VPN with Monero, I pay my mobile carrier (VoIP + data eSIM) with Monero, and the last time I travelled internationally I also got a data eSIM for that with Monero. Every so often I need to get through a Google “give us a phone number” prompt, and the one-time SMS OTP service I use is also paid with Monero. There’s also stores where you can buy gift cards for real-world things (Amazon etc.) with Monero.

Does China even use much Microsoft tech?

I’ve been using GrapheneOS for at least 5 years now (still remember the days when their sandboxed Play Store would need a force stop after every app install 💀) and I’m a much heavier user than you (social media, YouTube/podcasts, etc.). At this point I would not use anything else.

You won’t have issues with app compatibility except for certain banking apps and Google Pay, if you choose to install the sandboxed Google Services. If not, you’ll have issues with some apps not sending you push notifications (for example, Discord and Proton Mail) and other apps not working entirely (like Snapchat). Still, the last time I tried going fully de-Googled I remember most apps still working well enough even without Google services. From your post it sounds like you could easily live without it.

Sadly the newer phones have no headphone jack, and you definitely should not go for older ones that don’t recieve security updates. And the Pixels have never had removable batteries (you can check out iFixit for more info on repairability). Any Bluetooth headphones will work. They do have a 3.5mm jack to USB-C adapter but I it never worked for me.

Data transfer between Linux and Android has always been dead simple regardless of the OSes involved. Just plug the phone in and tap a couple of things, the phone’s filesystem will show up on the PC like any USB drive.

It’s very unlikely that most states will use a truly open source solution, especially when big tech makes it so easy not to. Case in point: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19

Sarcasm, captain.

Instance-based tribalism is stupid. I’d expect as much from a .world-er 🙃

I don’t mean this in a mean way, honestly curious – fascist how? As far as I know he made a couple of distasteful jokes a decade ago and apologized for it. Not great but we should stop using words like fascist and Nazi unless we can back it up.

Crazy to see how much people on here hate this guy

Oh god how are there so many of you freaks

I was this 🤏 close to a reflexive downvote

Are the Lutris devs responsible for the Discord or is it unofficial? If they’re in charge then this is really concerning.

ReVanced can also patch the Spotify app