Reding the link now " The reason the US government hasn’t tried to block or hinder Signal, is because it’s satisfied with the amount of information Signal can provide to it." Well the metadata of who is contacting who can be acquired by other means. CIA also like to have secure tools. Just like you can argue the CIA connection in the TOR case . It doesn’t mean backdoors and so on.

Centralisation argument sure, but that issue will always be there at some level, even for matrix.

Phonenumber discovarability argument is no longer correct as it is possible to use signal and not disclosing it to contacts, but yes still to signal.

I have a signal account with a fake number so that is an option as well, if even more work than matrix process.

There is also desktop clients for both.

Use signal and matrix. Telegram is as people pointed out usually unencrypted. Also unverifieble in its code . Signal is easy uses but phonenumbers ( you can register a fake one however) but always EE2E. Matrix does not require a number at all. But definatly is a bit harder to get started with and are therefore harder to get your contact to use it.

Had nosey cops trying to get into my phones illegally recently… do not understand people that dont encrypt shit

Reactionary and idealist

Toxic positivism and hypocracy

A couple of different ones. One kali nexus two graphene, one stock pixel

Started with some political discussions from my home country on mastodon, looked in to fediverse tech in general and managed to avoid .world from the start

Google doesnt make the big bucks on phonesales. Even buying a new ( I refurbish mine myself) and putting GOS on it is worse for Google than buying anything else and run it with gapps.

What google makes on phonesales is nothin to what they make of your data so your argument is flawed

Yea it is possible to change in stock launcher, some icons do not work and not weblinks either. But it is there.

I use my own domain and catch all. So signupatservice1 will be at signupatservice1@mydomain.ml and so on easy to check whats what

Added some repo thats unsigned it seems get the official

Peppermint OS, its what made me stop distrohopping . Debian based with extra on top, easy doesn’t brake,

You can torrent without port forwarding As long its basic it works, just less nodes. I would say you can use any VPN, but makes sense to choose one were you do not have to give them your payment details.

Hope for us outside the US is that you just keep your wars at home. Chances for peace in Ukraine increased at least

Dude go visit the aliens with some DMT , they will talk some sense in to you

Problem is of course that MS wont give a rays ass ( im gonna leave that autocorrect there) what you have set the toggles to. They will revert whatever they please, and yes in pro as well. Only way, get rid of the entire win updates…

https://ameliorated.io/

Dualboot and switch to linux when you are ready. Your windows should be windows AME. Chocolatey, host blocking malware/ads etc.