You just perfectly described “load shedding”. If you want to live your dream the good news is you could head to somewhere like South Africa right now. If you wanted to sprinkle in some drone strikes there’s also lots of other countries you could get a holiday home in to experience them too.

Exactly, and we wouldn’t want people with different opinions, experiences or mindsets on this website would we.

I’ve seen this dude’s videos before, it’s always the same. Whine about how hard privacy is in a monotone voice.

He’s not wrong, but goddamn is it monotonous content.

It’s not open source if that’s what you mean. If you think that stops people looking at code then I’ll have some of what you’re smoking please.

If you’re genuinely interested in how the Find My system works Here’s a good paper on it. The papers publishers even have an open source tool to connect to Apples Find My network which is neat.

What oil are you using? Hands down the best stuff I have ever tried is from a small New Zealand brand called Lambert’s Luscious Beard Oils. I started getting compliments at work after switching to that stuff.

Yep, it’s the same with Plex analytics on my server. Every minute or so it’s reaching out to the void. I’ve disabled it on my accounts privacy settings page but it still tries.

Looks like it’s achieved by editing some .conf files. It’s mentioned in the link provided.

I’m quite surprised Proton would use Gizmodo as a source. A quote from their articles first paragraph: “[as] Apple and Google beef up privacy”.

I guess they mean all the tech companies try to block each other so that they collect all the data themselves…

So, you and your friend were talking about a subject you obviously are interested in, likely spend heaps of time online searching about, commenting and following on social media and you’re surprised you got an ad for it? Bonkers.

Some of your recommendations on extensions are a bit out of date

Porkbun have easy privacy options for free, and right on the domain management page. CloudFlare too of course. Also, if you go for a random TLD, like .XYZ or something, do a quick check it supports privacy settings before purchasing.

Say phones are roughly 8mm thick nowadays & have roughly 20 hours or less screen on time - making them .5 thicker doesn’t equate to 7 times more capacity. Duracell brought out a mammoth of a brick that had decent battery in 2019.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/2/26/18241117/energizer-power-max-p18k-pop-huge-battery-phone-mwc-2019

If you’re into it you can watch tech youtubers go to those big conferences where they show off prototypes of their newest tech, earlier this year they were demoing rolling and pull out screens on phones and laptops, among other stuff.

For the batteries your outta luck for now due to a SOB called physics.

Companies make what sells, and flat candy bars sell. All the companies you mentioned went out of business (at least in the smartphone sector) due to not selling iPhone clones. I’m not saying that’s a good thing btw. I wish we had hoverboards & holograms too dude.

I’m pretty content with my folding phone for now though.

Would be interested to know if they bought one since it’s exactly what they are looking for.

I think that’s why small phones are going extinct; people are adamant they want one but don’t actually buy them.

A great description. Although regarding VPN’s and public wifi, I don’t know of any banking or similar sites that aren’t using https nowadays, so man in the middle attacks aren’t such a danger. Not to say you shouldn’t use a VPN anyway, you might as well always be connected to one.

Smart. I fell for the hype on reddit & had serious buyers remorse.