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Use an app your family doesn’t use or understand, like Snapchat or Discord.

Nah, use Signal, they definitely won't use it, cause it's "woke leftist crap"

Signal posted this on Twitter a few years ago:

And this is what the Trump cultists had to say about it:

So you can definitely be sure that they don't use it

It's also much more private and secure than Snapchat or Discord. I would avoid Discord, since it's not encrypted and your chats are saved to your account. If someone gets your password, they can read all your chats. Signal only saves them on your device, so you're safe.

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Israel isn’t knee deep in an information war against the US and Europe

You're right, they're trying to spread their pro-genocide propaganda all over the world

Buying a Pixel is a good idea, especially if you put GrapheneOS on it. It's by far the best mobile operating system I've ever used.

Just so you know: This is the semi-unofficial Lemmy community. You can follow the official Mastodon account at @[email protected]

Mullvad VPN offers Brave Search as a backend in their Leta search engine proxy. That way you don't have to access Brave directly.

Unfortunately not, since iOS does not allow third-party apps to access the APIs required for Wi-Fi scanning. I think Bluetooth could be done, but bluetooth beacons by themselves aren't as useful.

From the beaconDB Matrix room (somebody recently asked the same question):

I currently really enjoy self-hosted Perplexica (a FOSS alternative to the Perplexity AI search engine), which uses SearXNG as a meta-crawler, and Ollama for local AI integration. I'm very happy with it, but it requires a fairly powerful server (not a Raspberry Pi or another SBC, the only one that might work is the Nvidia Jetson or whatever it's called, but I haven't tried that yet).

Mastodon would require a separate login.

Ok I just assumed that most people on Lemmy would also have a Mastodon account, apparently that's not really the case?

I'm desperately waiting for Lemmy to add support for federated polls

Whoops, forgot to actually put the community link in the post. It's fixed now.

Seems like I have 1.6K since I came here in March - that's 7 months. It would equate to 2.7K if I kept it up at this rate for a whole year.

But GrapheneOS works on them.

And GrapheneOS has call recording btw

Again, many apps are broken.

Which apps do you mean? Most apps work just fine on GOS, even many banking apps and others that require proprietary Google Play services. The only apps that don't work, are those that make use of Google's completely stupid "Play Protect" API, which claims to verify that a device is secure, but in reality has absolutely nothing to do with security. Google (and other Big Tech companies) don't give a single fuck about your security. It's not Graphene's fault, and has to do with nothing more than Google's monopolistic practices. It's designed in a way, where an operating system has to be manually whitelisted by Google, in order to get certified. Obviously, they only allowlisted their own spyware-filled proprietary OS, which is less secure than Graphene.

Fairphone might be interesting

Unfortunately Fairphones are highly insecure, shipping with a completely broken implementation of Android Verified Boot, and using the publically available AOSP test private signing keys by default to sign the OS. They also lack all the hardware security features present in modern Pixel devices.

When do you think will Valve enable this by default in SteamOS? It would greatly help the little Steam Deck with playing more performance-intensive titles.