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Wahaha wrote

An old one. But it works, so whatever.
I tried buying a new phone, but it's kinda overwhelming and with the simple specs I want: triple sim, dual sd-card slot and 16:9 display I seem to be shit out of luck. Even dual sim phones prevent sd-card usage if you actually dare to use two sim cards. Like, what the fuck. I don't get why SIMs are still necessary and couldn't be digital, but here we are.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to comment by GadgeteerZA in How about lemmy? by sitefights

Well, this site is available via the clearnet and my name is on the bills that pays for this place to stay online. If it's legal, it's fine. This site was never intended to be a home for things like illegal marketplaces and such. The idea behind it was a proof of concept of multi-network accessibility of a reddit-like site and an emphasis on privacy. That's why /f/privacy is the main forum and the one I post to the most.

For a true 'free for all' type experience, I'm sure there are places on Tor that are more open to it. This site isn't one of them and has never been promoted as such.

You can view the Global Moderation Log (nav bar up top) to see what things I remove. It's mostly spam.

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GadgeteerZA wrote

Yes it is interesting... What I really detest though are people who speculate something controversial without any actual evidence. Dots often are connected where there is actually no thread. Of course ANYTHING (literally) is possible, but I like to see why exactly and what was found. What some present as "evidence" is too flimsy.

Take just providing information to the Swiss authorities - of course any legal organisation will have to state that, but they require formal warrants, and they can only provide what they have. It does not mean they can actually decrypt the contents of your mail and provide it. Which is why many organisations prefer to have as little access as possible, and not be able to decrypt information. Outside of the USA, Russia, and China, most countries legally do not allow fishing expeditions by the authorities to just see what they can fine, there has to be something of legal substance against an identified individual.

I look rather at examples like Facebook's Cambridge Analytica - broadly reported with the evidence found to actual events and outcomes. That was one of the vents that made me leave Facebook altogether. WhatsApps' terms and conditions that stated they would share my metadata to Facebook as well as their 3rd party partners - I ledt WhatsApp.

I'm certainly going to keep an eye open anything that does develop around ProtonMail though, and see if anything in that report actually gains traction.

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awdrifter wrote

OnePlus 8 Pro. The hardware is good (except for overheating when recording long videos), the software has many small issues that makes it hard to recommend. Switching apps sometimes it'll freeze and you have to press the recent button (square) then back to the app to make it respond. The phone will become laggy after 1-2 weeks without restart. The screen turns yellow whenever an HDR video is played. It also doesn't have a one-handed mode, since it's a big phone, makes reaching the corners with 1 hand almost impossible. Also VPN app gets killed randomly, so you lose connection without notice.

This phone is 8/10 hardware, but 5/10 software. Maybe when there are stable third party ROM for it that solves these issues, then it'll be worth buying.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to comment by sitefights in How about lemmy? by sitefights

I'd like to think most people here are inherently good. In fact, I'd say people in general are inherently good regardless of their political beliefs or their anonymous online personas.

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burnerben OP wrote

I was planning on getting a Pixel 4a running grapheneOS then i remember i still had my old burner taped to the ceiling in my closet so and my phone was becoming a time suck so i switched to the flip phone. the flip phone has a modern os/rom i could browse the wired but i don’t. i just use it for simple texts but mainly calls. i do miss having a good camera in my pocket though. so i wouldn’t be suprised if in a couple months i switch back to a dumb phone.

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