A 30 year old friend of mine didn’t know about incognito mode. A certain subreddit popped up, on his projector screen, as a recommendation when we were searching for a sports stream to watch. I don’t think anyone else noticed or would really know what the sub was, but I later casually mentioned this really cool browser feature to use in case you need to search something weird.

I learned one shouldn’t assume that everyone is familiar with all the digital tricks to hide what they’d prefer others not see.

I feel the global economy won’t be too bad off. Likely some collateral damage, but the United States on the other hand…

I was going to say, that list is many of the things you can get through Kiwix.

It’s self hostable and some of the resources are really quite interesting.

I’m not American, but why would a rental agency need a customer’s SSN?

You won’t lose them if you back them up. SMS Backup and Restore can automate the task for you.

1. Don’t go to the United States

If you really have to…

1. Backup phone.
2. Factory reset (make sure you really backed up everything)
3. Install only essential apps (not from backup). Don’t log into anything.
4. Cross border. (you just got a new phone and haven’t set it up yet)
5. Restore backup.

Steam Link works well if they’re still around.

You must be American…

No torrent needed, yt-dlp has you covered.

While it’s a Firefox fork, Ironfox works great for me.

Recent post from the Proton Reddit account: https://archive.ph/quYyb

Seems it’s not just the CEO’s personal opinion.

I heard about the Light Phone recently and I think it’s a decent bridge between the old brick phones and modern smartphones. It has navigation and music functionality that a brick phone wouldn’t, but doesn’t have all the rest of the attention thieving bloat of a smartphone.

It would be nice to have music streaming capability and alternative messaging apps (Signal) and perhaps a web browser, though.

Yes, but the alternative is far worse. I present America as Exhibit A.

Right hand rule applied to torque.

Yeah I usually just follow the “try another instance” links until one works.

I’ve noticed Invidious instances having trouble recently as well. I’m sure they’re not dead though, just need to get the next mouse for the endless cat and mouse game.

Aka a bribe.

Bicycles can’t or vehicles can’t? There’s a vast difference in weight and I imagine most wouldn’t even notice.

Sounds to me like more of a reason why we should.

On what grounds? Surely no one with a regular job would sign a contract prohibiting them from discussing the details of their employment.