I haven't used a SPOT for ten years, but at that time they were pretty limited in their comms. They weren't on if I didn't want them to be on, and even when in and supposedly with service, were flaky. Now, I use an InReach. It has more functionality than the devices in the past, but the connection isn't really any better. All of these devices were owned and managed under government contracts but I don't think they would be any different. I have never used them to track myself as I go, I use different equipment for that.
Long story short, you'll worry more about getting service when you need than you will about being tracked when you don't want to be. A tree canopy or tall canyon can prevent comms.
I didn’t mean the message to sound the way it did. You already have the Spot messenger and it is a cool product. I just wanted to present another useful way to signal for emergency help in remote areas.
If price is no option get a NAS install jellyfin, jellyseerr, radarr, sonarr. Hell you could even use an old laptop and upgrade the storage if you want a cheap start option.
From what I’ve read on here the people that use them like them. If you value your privacy enough to pay for a search engine you’ll probably like it. I believe I’ve seen Kagi mentioned the most
Open source OS everywhere, as many foss apps as possible, no google services, no social media, texting through Signal and Matrix, Librewolf configured to throw away all cookies (exept whitelisted sites).
Not exactly what you want, but below each video in freetube, there’s an ‘up next’ playlist that afaik are still recommended. You can use it to find similar content.
Local Kiwix.org server for most research, local LLMs through huggingface.co to play with new tech, FOSS & hardened OS, openwrt router, lots of physical books, e2e encryption and mail for a good amount of correspondence
I wouldn’t say it’s hiding, since my finger print is unique and everything is tracked, logged and will be broken some day if attacked long enough. More, just a bit of relief from the observer effect since I’m just a human trying to breathe
linux on my pc, /e/OS(degoogled privacy focused lineage OS fork) on my phone, phone has the Mull browser which is basically arkenfox mobile. On pc hardened firefox with custom DNS and ublock origin set to block thirdparty scripts also noscript with default set to be same as untrusted. Keepasa XC on pc and keepass dx on mobile. Also I am spoofing my location and blocking trackers systemwide on my phone. Libredirect on firefox also so that I don’t have to go to the tracker filled social media sites at all, oh also the skip redirect extension and url shortener list for ublock. And most things I use are FOSS. oh I also use the startpage as my search engine on all my devices. Also protonmail.
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