Horses can run between 25-30 MPH, a class 3 e-bike caps out at 28 MPH. So, they’re about the same.

I once had a conversation with AI to see what the fastest form of local transportation is, that didn’t absolutely require paying any kind of insurance, like cars do. I did not expect the response at all: the AI told me horseback riding. The thing is, it’s completely right, but it’s something no human would ever have given as a response. Anyways, if anyone has a horse you don’t want…

I’m not sure if this is good or bad.

Have you used Gadgetbridge yourself? If so, can you tell me more about your experiences?

Could you provide more information about those apps, such as what they are used for and which criteria they meet?

Yes! You can download nearby quests for your location, and complete them fully offline. Afterwards, you can connect to the internet to upload your edits to OSM at your earliest convenience.

Usually I tend to avoid sarcastic responses, but since no one mentioned it, how about the game of Telephone?

I made my own list of software, and most of those listed are software I use daily.

I made a list of open source software that you can use in the future when looking for software! My list recommends OpenStreetMap, OsmAnd, and Organic Maps under the “Map Services” section.

Some good, open source TOTP apps to use are Aegis and Ente Auth.

Chrome sounds more secure

Chromium is not the same as Chrome. I highly suggest reading the previous posts.

yet I don’t want an advertising company looking at my browsing habbits

There are more privacy respecting options such as ungoogled-chromium and Brave (which can be configured to minimize data collection and bloat).

In the end, the choice is yours.

Either option works.

If anything, I love GrapheneOS for its “Network” permission toggle. It’s nice knowing that my keyboard (or any other unnecessary apps) can’t phone home.

First off, if you’re concerned about phone privacy, consider a custom OS for your phone that respects privacy such as GrapheneOS.

It’s easy to figure out that your device isn’t listening to a constant audio stream 24/7, since that would drain battery and send a lot of noticeable data over the network. However, it is entirely possible to listen for certain keywords as you mentioned, and send them encrypted with another seemingly legitimate packet. There’s no way to be 100% certain, but it is possible in theory without draining too much battery.

The steps you took are good, making sure that apps don’t have any permissions they don’t need. Privacy is a spectrum, so it’s not “all or nothing”. As I mentioned before, if you’re seriously concerned about mobile privacy and want a solution, you can get a custom operating system that can remove any privacy invasive elements. GrapheneOS also allows you to disable the camera and microphone system-wide (although this functionality is present on some other Android builds).

If it eases you any, a lot of these advertisements happen to be coincidence and trigger confirmation bias. It could be that those ads happened to show up by coincidence, or that advertisers managed predicted your interests, or that you got tracked by some other means while downloading the movie. The possibilities are nearly endless.

Having worked in penetration testing before, one tool I used to query SQL databases represented unknown characters as an underscore (_) before the character gets brute forced.

Bonus story: I used to set the hostname for my phone as a transparent character, so it wouldn’t visibly show up if someone ever did a network scan. I accidentally fooled myself with this while doing a network scan, and got frustrated why the “mystery device” wouldn’t load a hostname.

I may make a writeup about this, considering a password with all possible Unicode characters instead of just the printable ASCII characters.

The Planck Cruncher has refused to comment about this. ;)

I did consider this while writing this, but I decided to keep it simple. I’m not sure how quantum physics would behave when we’re discussing a computer that can already calculate at Planck “speed”.

One could argue the same about the Tor Project, which has made their own version of Firefox.

It depends on what you’re defending against. Both hackers and surveillance can happen behind the scenes, so while no data loss or noticeable breaches happened, that doesn’t mean that nothing happened.