“Holy shit this guy programs games to play them what a chad.” - MigratingtoLemmy

It stems from a blind hatred for GrapheneOS and its users as a whole.

I have wondered why they haven’t taken the opportunity to come out with a Graphene-lite for non-Pixels

The issue I see is simply a lack of developers to do so. Trying to split the team between two mostly different projects would most likely cripple both.

This spreadsheet is a very helpful comparison of the different messaging apps. I’ve been using SimpleX for quite some time now, and the only issue I have is some lag on the iOS client.

Aegis is Android only.

Thank you so much! Have you personally used BiglyBT? If so, is there anything I should know?

(Last I checked) From this spreadsheet, Discord is the fourth worst messaging platform in terms of privacy. Now a new row for “Has ads” will have to be added…

Are you just meaning not piracy?

Yes.

Thanks for creating your own post!

I also have a graphing calculator that can generate these.

This is a unique solution that I will add to my toolbelt for the future! Which calculator is it?

However, I fear that the cat’s already out of the bag.

Data gets stale! It’s never too late to start, and it’s always better to prevent future disaster than to dwell on old ones. I used to use Instagram + as my main chat platform, and now I have no worries because what’s done is done and I learned better.

However, my sixth form cafeteria only accepts two forms of payment: biometric (handled internally) and debit card.

Dystopia… Have you asked if you can explicitly use cash? If you’re up for it, push for the use of it in your school. I know plenty of students that use cash religiously for lunch.

Some shows I enjoy (i.e. Helluva Boss)

Hazbin Hotel is one of my favorites

My local timezone just happens to be the same as UTC

That is truly a lucky thing, as it reduces a lot of fingerprinting.

I’m still salty about Apple removing the headphone jack and then every other phone company following suit.

Me too, but fret not, as there are adapters and (most likely, I haven’t checked) non-disposable USB-C earphones.

I will never use Amazon Echo or Google Home.

I will never use Alexa. Or really anything that turns my home automated.

“Alexa, open the door.”

“I’m sorry, your voice is not recognized and your plan has been cancelled. Please contact support and we will respond within 3-5 business days.”

Obviously that will never happen, but it’s not so unreal…

Start using multiple browsers

I used to stick to only one, but found out that it’s easier to be as private as I can and “move down the assembly line” until something works.

Use cash more often

I withdrew almost all my funds from my bank and only used my card if I ran out of cash on a run.

Anonymise social media

No helping you there. I found out that even the smallest details I put out collectively could be used to uniquely identify me, after making only two posts.

Try to get family to ditch Meta

If you can, great. Otherwise, just try not to get posted on their socials.

Look into BIOS and UEFI hardening

Really just use an open source BIOS and slap a password on it (with Heads if you want) and you’re all set. Careful not to brick your PC.

Buy a privacy screen protector and faraday equipment

One note about privacy screen protectors: If your brightness (specifically white point) is too high, people can see it. You can enable “reduce white point” on iOS, and set it to 100%, and that works well even on max brightness. Smudges can also let people see. Turn your phone horizontal (if you’re testing in public) and tilt it slightly to see how much people can see in your current environment.

Good luck! You have a pretty good setup! I hope you make the improvements you want, and learn along the way!

What are these ethical movie streaming sources?

Netflix, Amazon Prime, places that host copyright free movies, etc.

Have you tried this process? https://mashable.com/article/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-street-view

I have not, thank you!

This is a good guide on how to harden iOS. Basically iOS made as private as possible.

Whonix is a unique operating system focused on privacy, security, and anonymity. Rather than being a standalone operating system, Whonix is unique in that it needs a “host” operating system to run Whonix as a virtual machine within the operating system. That means that if Whonix got compromised, the rest of your system stays untouched. Whonix isn’t like a standard VM, however, but I don’t know the specifics on how to properly explain that. Anyways, one cool feature of Whonix is that, like Tails, it routes all traffic through Tor.

It really is a great choice! :)

While Lemmy is not a dedicated service for privacy protection, it has certain features that respect user privacy more than mainstream social media platforms.

Here is the GitHub page! privacy.sexy is a service that lets you customize and automatically generate a script that will harden the privacy of your computer operating system. i.e. it makes a script that disables telemetry, clears cache, etc. automatically.

Ouch, tough break. I’ll still leave them on my list in case anything changes, but that will move them down a few notches. Thanks for the info!