This is great news!

For those unaware, Google is continuously enacting policies that are closing down the open environment of Android, and I fear this will significantly harm projects like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, and others.

If you can spare a couple dollars, please consider throwing some money at PostmarketOS or any other mobile Linux project you like.

I am a huge fan of SimpleX and their removal of user IDs. I think it’s a brilliant solution, and wish that SimpleX was recommended more than Signal.

Participating has really helped. I’m still struggling to post, but I try to comment wherever I feel I can add value, however small.

Build the platform you want to be part of.

My shift was primarily ideologically driven. I was sick of privacy encroachment, enshittification, and feeling like my computer wasn’t truly mine. Linux changed all that.

You can download from this site which comes from Proton directly, this Github repo, or this link which downloads the F-Droid build

After using Autotiling from the Cosmic desktop, I can’t go back to anything else. I’ve tried distro hopping to Gnome based desktops for a few reasons, but always wind back up on Cosmic.

Proton Pass can also be downloaded from Obtainium, if you’d rather go that route.

Coincards allows you to buy gift cards with crypto.

Congrats!

As a quality of life upgrade, I’d recommended downloading the COSMIC app store. It’s still made by the developers of Pop!, but is significantly better than the Pop Shop.

I do!

My use of a Faraday bag is more prepper oriented (i.e. solar flares) instead of geared towards privacy, but I keep a Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS, linux laptop, and eReader in a SLNT Faraday bag.

My tests have been far from perfect, but the phone’s Bluetooth and cell reception have all ceased working once put in the bag.