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  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlSpyingOS
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    9 days ago

    GrapheneOS for google pixel phones, otherwise CalyxOS, DivestOS, maybe even IodéOS. All of these are Android but with better defaults, without irremovable spying garbage, and with some features nowhere else available.

    if your phone is not supported by these, check LineageOS. or plan your next phone purchase according to the compatibility list of the above. if you’re going for longevity but you don’t need a flagship, Fairphone is agood choice, if you can look away from the lack of a JACK.


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    google through only the web, what a fucking joke. if you have a google account check your activity history. it will list the times you have opened an app.

    if you don’t have a google account but your phone has google services, don’t be afraid that you can’t check it, they’re still harvesting it.

    want to avoid it?
    Step 0: don’t by samsung. xiaomi neither, they plan to make you unable to execute the next step.
    Step 1: unlock your phone. take ownership into your hands. but back up your photos, the 2FA Authenticator app’s data and whatever else is important, because it will get deleted.
    Step 2: install a privacy oriented custom ROM.
    Step 3: profit

    keep bank services contained in the firefox browser. if they don’t allow access there, switch banks, you’ll be better off with a smaller one anyways.












  • oh and if you’re interested in archiving, definitely check out the Archive Team!

    they are always running archiving projects, they even participate in preserving reddit content, and they have a connection with archive.org and the Wayback Machine.
    they maintain a virtual machine image that you can run at home even on a simpler PC, and help in their projects. It does not consume much storage actively, only some network bandwidth. It’s basically a distributed archiving tool, a lot of people running it download all kinds of data (good for performance and to avoid restrictions) for the selected project, and upload it to AT for preservation


  • Oh my sweet summer child, 12 GB is not a lot! :)

    well, for one you can start saving webpages you found helpful, maybe your useful links collection or bookmarks, if you have any of those. I would recommend using Firefox and the singlefile addon, or the webscrapbook addon. feel free to look into their settings, but don’t let it overwhelm you, of you need it take it in smaller pieces, there’s no shame in it.
    since this is mostly text, it shouldn’t take up that much space quickly, and it’s also very efficiently compressible! for example with 7zip.

    if you often watch videos, like on YouTube or somewhere else, and you find something useful or otherwise you think it’s worth preserving (entertainment is also a valid reason), you can grab it too. have a look at yt-dlp, it’s very versatile, very configurable, and not only for youtube.
    but this will easily take up a lot of space, videos are huge and not really compressible losslessly.

    other than that, have a look at the DataHoarder community: !datahoarder@lemmy.ml (I hope the link works). for even more, you may check the datahoarder and opendirectories subreddits through libreddit/redlib



  • how can we have relatively simpler touch gestures? mostly what I’m thinking about is long press for imitating a right click, but text selection with popup copy/paste/etc buttons would also be useful.

    I would say it’s also inconvenient that we don’t have a good touch keyboard for wayland, but you probably know that.
    maliit is hard to build, afaik not packaged for any distro, buggy and not customizable (or if it is, it is not documented anywhere else than the code), apparently there is no way to limit it’s width, which makes usage harder on tablet sized screens. it has also been abandoned by the devs.
    squeekboard is not compatible with KDE wayland because of missing protocols.
    onboard is X only.