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neutron,

I still think YYYY-MM-DD should be more apt for an international release.

neutron,

What about rental programs, OP? You can try one for a month and see what models suit your needs.

I have an issue with how SIM cards are handled in most countries

Almost all countries require official authentication to activate a SIM card. This seems to me as a huge privacy problem, if the country can track sim cards across cell towers and connect them to a person. It seems like a dystopian system, that we litterely can not hide from our governments without turning off our smartphones. It...

neutron,

Brand of the 4g router?

neutron,

What about XFCE users?

neutron,

In a similar situation as you (entire society revolves around whatsapp). I came to this conclusion:

  1. Others won’t share my view on personal privacy at all will happily give out any metadata or data. No matter what secure channel we use, the destination (people) will always leak.
  2. Because of (1), consider all communication with others as public, no matter the inferred intimacy, no matter the platform or its security.
  3. Consider (2) as true even if they somehow used Signal or any secure platform, because of (1). (E.g. “Hey, did you hear about $familyMember? Yes, the weird kiddo who forced me to use some strange blue shit for chat. He got positive on blood exam for $badCondition. Go check on him”)

As for whatsapp itself, i use Android and isolate it in a separate profile, also frozen until opened. I also used a burner phone number for account registration, not my actual number.

People are more receptive of whatsapp accounts with “alternate” numbers when you explain you “got hacked in the past” or any plausible reason.

neutron, (edited )

It’s not about having the option, I love having alternatives. It’s about 90s ways being the only choice when they could have better options. E.g. You need to send a form. It’s already a pdf file, send it by email, right? No, it has to be physical mail… or fax if they have a number. Oh, and you have to stamp on it. No pdf. Multiply that by time constraints and local bureaucracy mixed in.

neutron, (edited )

Its the same for all East Asian countries as well, but I guess slapping JAPAN on it means fast upvotes, like that “Place, Japan” meme.

neutron,

I would have loved this as a drunk college kid at 2 am.

neutron,

What if I use Debian but with backports and flatpak for apps that need fast updates?

neutron,

I suppose the blogs (with activity support like WordPress) could be used for this meanwhile?

neutron,

It should be perfectly doable. The only difference is that the server in on the local network (e.g. 192.168.1.101) instead of localhost (127.0.0.1). You might need to configure your OS firewall to let traffic through.

neutron,

It would be great if big trackers started encouraging use of I2P as an alternative.

neutron,

There are many ways to solve this problem, with different degrees of acceptance: legally (arguing for personal freedom granted by basic laws, depends on jurisdiction), or technologically (tools to evade or deceive censorship techniques, could require technical knowledge for proper use).

We have the tools, but legal grounds can also play a greater role (e.g. declaring vpn/tor illegal causes a chilling effect for potential beneficiaries).

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