Every new internet-connected feature they add seems to also increase attack surface, so this is a weird dilemma. Still better to keep things up to date in the short term. In the long term, I’ve made the choice to switch to an OS that respects user preferences.

Edit: I’ve also heard that the Windows 11 IoT enterprise edition doesnt come with all this bloat but still gets regular security updates

If it’s for waking up at a scheduled time, why not go with a dedicated alarm clock that only needs a wall plug and maybe a backup battery?

It’s not devs in general. Bloober is notorious for releasing poorly optimized games. They probably run terribly on windows too.

No. Lockdown is not the same as BFU. Lockdown just turns off biometric unlocking.

The latter is true. Phone needs to be in BFU to work against cellbrite, I figure. Lockdown only turns off biometrics and makes the phone unlockable with a pin or password instead, iirc.

When you reboot the phone, it is in the BFU state where everything is still encrypted until the user unlocks the phone, as I understand it. https://blogs.dsu.edu/digforce/2023/08/23/bfu-and-afu-lock-states/

From the GOS forums, it looks like as long as you keep your phone up-to-date, block USB data in the locked state, and the phone is in the before-first-unlock state, cellbrite still can’t break into it

Platforms run by “free speech absolutists” tend to go that way

Pretty small if you have to ask. Privacy isn’t all or nothing. Depends on your threat model too. If you want an iPhone go buy one.

I want an android-based PC that can be locked down and de-googled like GrapheneOS

I’d also be interested in such a resource. privacyguides forums may be a good place to ask around too.

Especially those developed/maintained within US jurisdiction

This privacy-centric US phone carrier may or may not be a honeypot, but seems too good to be true. https://www.cape.co/

It must’ve been deleted along with the other texts that were marked as unfavorable dissent

If they introduced a means for users to delete messages, they can certainly do the same without user permission

How journalists sound when they compare an LLM to specialized software that plays chess

Grace Hopper’s explanation about the light-nanosecond is still good for laypersons https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw

Is it really that hidden? If the training data predominantly comes from a website full of white supremacists, it will sometimes sound like a white supremacist.

Looks interesting, but it’s the first time I’ve heard of them and I’m wary about the CEOs ties to palantir and the fact that its a US-based company. I’ll wait for others to do some deeper research into the company first.

YouTube generally does that when I’m viewing embedded videos on a VPN. Works fine if you’re logged in and viewing videos on YouTube itself.