Out of curiosity, do you use your xmpp app for SMS as well? I’ve been doing so (since the majority of my family will not leave the SMS messaging system) but its a bit lacking when it comes to groups and MMS.

Yeah, I’m in the same boat as you. But I’ve noticed my maps dont update any longer so I’m glad this is all coming together at the same time.

If your internet connection is coming from hotspot tethering to your phone you’ll want to put it in a Faraday bag when not in use since your phone will be trackable at all times even if off. If you use a hotspot instead the cell signal and WiFi are still trackable but the lack of Bluetooth and GPS aids greatly in keeping the tracking to a minimum.

As far as I’m aware there shouldnt be any differences between the two. I’d say buy the phone your budget allows for. Personally I spent more by getting he 256gig model because the storage was worth it to me. So basically my advice is buy older but spend the difference on meaningful storage.

Depending on your threat model you may wish to buy second hand or buying with cash so the IMEI isn’t tied to your name.

I initially struggled with the zero google because many apps didn’t work. I ran a secondary profile with google services running for those. Recently, due to another comment here on Lemmy I retried those apps (with exploit compatibility on) and most of them worked. So I’ve ditched the secondary profile. My point being, that most apps will probably work but if they don’t you always have the option of a secondary profile.

I agree with your general statement, but in theory since all ChatGPT does is regurgitate information back and a lot of chess is memorization of historical games and types, it might actually perform well. No, it can’t think, but it can remember everything so at some point that might tip the results in it’s favor.

Lol yeah I remember that happening on occasion with me too. I’m not saying the AI is perfect, but it’s playable. I just treated Sheva like a distraction to enemies and somebody who can heal me when needed. But yes, it’s still 2009 era AI, so playing with a person is a far better choice.

I never played Revelations 2 so can’t comment on your question about the story. I will say that you should try to play RE5 if you can. Yeah, being Chris kind of sucks and I always chose Sheva if I had the chance to. But the game is really fun. Yeah, it’s more action than horror but it’s a super fun game and one of my favorites. Definitely better with a friend but the AI is good enough to help out and heal you when needed.

They keep pushing new outlook so hard, but it is still lacking basic features. Want to add a contact with a vcf file? Nope, can’t do that. Want to have access to other email boxes? Nope, can’t do that. Want to send an email without being prompted that you may have forgotten an attachment? Nope. OK OK, but they say its better and we should all use it. Fine, I’ll bite. OK so can I get my mobile app to function the same way? Nope. No “new” app for mobile.

Yeah, I’m already running opnsense on an old PC with an added network card. Then I use Unbound DNS with various blacklist filters on my outbound traffic.

It honestly seems good enough because I monitored it for a while when I set it up. But I don’t monitor it continually and I don’t have specific blocks that I set up myself, just the published blacklists. If something new is phoning home I’d be unaware until I check it, which is what I like about your setup.

Smart. Right now I just rely on various blacklists that seem to block everything I need to. I might do something like this at some point though to be sure.

This was my thought too. Seems easiest to me to DNS block on the firewall side (and be network wide).

I use Librewolf as my daily driver for most things, then Mulvad when I don’t want any fingerprinting.

Mulvad is highly underated IMO.

It hurts to even read that. I can’t even imagine your frustration.

I would highly recommend this as I did something similar. I ran Linux on an older machine separate from my main machine. I did so for about 10 months. Plus I built out a gaming machine for somebody and set up another old machine as a media center, both with Linux.

I finally made the 100% switch just a few months ago. I bought a new M.2 drive and swapped out just like you are planning. I really needed to make sure I had no hitches for work purposes. I haven’t even considered swapping back (though in full transparency I have Windows running on a VM for some apps that I can’t get in Linux)

Yeah, this isn’t really scientific or anything. The details of he survey aren’t really discussed in detail, and its not random sampling… Its readers of android authority.

That’s nearly equivalent of saying, the majority of people in this privacy group care more about privacy than google features.

I’d be interested to see a broad survey like this though to get a real sense of how the general publics views on privacy are changing.

The stupider part is that it would be easier to stack out from the other direction.

There are 8 pieces of wood @ 1.5" each = 12" Studs are 16" on center.

So to stack from the right would be 2 pieces to be in the same place.

You can even see the gray box that opens to the wall behind it. That is attached to the stud on the right…its that close. But here I go applying logic to crazy.

Oh, what’s that in the corner? A random Uzi mag and health pack. Cool.

Just to chime in, I’m in agreement with goodeye8. I liked R1 but R2 is fleshed out a lot more. Its a lot more fun and engaging.

I found that in R2 I played and replayed every area to get the variations and fight different bosses or defeat them in diffdrent manners I didnt do everything 100% but I did most of everything. In R1 I think I only went back to defeat one boss in an alternate manner. I know that’s not really a measurable way to give feedback, but it’s my anecdotal way of saying its a better game.

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