Oh? Thundermail will “opensource” their mail server? That’s going to fantastic I think, a real competitor to the other FOSS mail servers out there I think.

Get a VPN using cash/XMR (Mullvad/IVPN), and then either use them directly or over TOR to create the account.

I need to watch this Defcon talk

Personally, Framework has become a bit too expensive for me. If you’re in the US I’d look at the older Dell precision and HP ZBook workstations from 2020 or earlier, they have amazing specs and go for $400 or so. Fairly repairable because enterprises demanded that they be and gobs of power for anything you want.

If you slap AGPL or something on it corporates will have no choice but to open-source their products built on top of your software.

Older MacBooks still have that darned WiFi card which you need special proprietary drivers for. And basically nothing in that chassis is standard; everything is Apple-specific if you want to repair it. I don’t recommend MacBooks

I wish the communications of politicians get hacked and their plans leaked. They don’t care unless it happens to them.

Am I missing the point or do these people have buckets of cash to spend?

If you’re going to travel to Germany then you might face similar treatment. Take care

Yes, by tight security I meant confiscation of your devices. This has been a regular thing in many middles eastern countries, some European countries and now the US, so it’s no longer a joke to the average Joe.

I wish I could survive without a SIM but a realistic look at my life makes it obvious that I cannot. Unfortunate

As you noted in another comment, your IMEI number is out and it has already been mapped to your current location. Which means if you travel with this device and security is tight enough, in theory they will be able to find out where you live. They will then probe for associated metadata from there.

Other than that, there’s not much risk as far as I can tell. Clear your list of WiFi networks before you travel and hope Google’s firmware for their modem isn’t spyware (it likely is though, Qualcomm made it).

If you want no cellular tracking: remove SIM, disable eSIM, switch on airplane mode and disable WiFi-calling if not disabled already.

Yes unfortunately your device has already been “fingerprinted”, but with MAC randomization and GrapheneOS’ work on preventing apps from checking software and hardware identifiers, I think you’ll be fine unless you’re going against the NSA. You shouldn’t be using a phone if you’re up against multiple 3-letter agencies

I hope they know that RISC-V exists…

We need to have a community wiki with TVs where the WiFi chip can be reliably desoldered

The only 2 words that go into my search bar are xnxx and xhamster.

How do you back up your media?

Seedboxes go from €2 to €100+ a month depending on how much you will torrent and how much space you need on the box alongside other factors. My personal choices are Gigarapid and Ultra but there are others

True. I use a cheap computer monitor for myself, and since I live like a hermit it isn’t really a problem for me. Aren’t projectors more expensive than cheap 1080p TVs?

I will buy a Telly TV as long as I don’t have to give my ID and can desolder the WiFi chip.

I know what day it is but commenting on a hypothetical precedent

Rage-read until the third paragraph lol