Sure, I was trying to correct the statement that it’s not possible at all though.

You can still torrent with Mullvad, it’s just gonna be slower because you have less peers. But it’s still 100% doable. They don’t block torrenting entirely…

Another vote for Mullvad.

In this vein, Google LOVES to hardcode their DNS into their apps. So, like you said, even if you use a different DNS provider, your phone will still be hitting Google servers.

Graphene is the way.

Sorry, I didn’t mean package pickup. I meant like ordering from the supermarket, for curbside pickup, for instance.

I don’t necessarily do it for all online purchases, but I definitely do it when I can pick it up myself.

I also work in tech, and was what you’d call a low need customer.

The Xfinity service in my entire neighborhood would go down almost daily, and sometimes more than twice a day. On top of that, it would sometimes cut out just long enough to disconnect my remote shells, causing me to have to reauthenticate. It was horrible, my new (community) fiber is a huge improvement. I think it’s gone down once since having it installed almost two years ago.

slightly off topic but the first time I got “stuck” in a black hole on SpaceEngine was scary as fuck

Does commercial drone flying pay well? I’ve been thinking about getting my part 107, mostly for wikipedia and OSM contributions though.

Yep, you can pay with monero for faster direct downloads

In no way does Signal prevent conversations from being archived. For all you know, a recipient could be screenshotting all of your messages, and they could even be using the official app when doing so.

If you don’t trust your contacts, probably shouldn’t be messaging them anything sensitive.

Of course, like someone else here said, anything is possible. Since we’re talking broadly, they wouldn’t necessarily even need the spyware if you leak anything else network wise, meaning even if you use Linux it could be caught.

Yeah, Ubuntu is really corpo these days, tons of bloat too. I avoid it like the plague.

Absolutely, and I’m not trying to say they don’t own their infra or have the ability to cut off the Molly users. Luckily, if that were to happen, you could use the automated backups to restore back into Signal, since they’re functionally the same.

Regardless, both apps have reproducible builds. It’s the infra that isn’t reproducible.

They’ve been allowing Molly to continue to function for multiple years. Notably, from Molly’s readme:

Molly connects to Signal’s servers, so you can chat with your Signal contacts seamlessly.

I looked over the terms of service linked there and don’t see anything specifically calling out third party clients. Is that elsewhere in another terms page somewhere or is it just not being specifically mentioned?

Point 2 is mostly not true, in that Molly exists and you can do reproducible builds with either implementation.

I’m not sure how much they dig, but Alexa recently changed to do everything via cloud, including all recordings and voice processing. It’s definitely at least always listening and phoning home.

Once again, this is why I didn’t generalize and said that the PNW is well aware of that fact, and red states have their heads in the sand. I’m not sure how many times I need to say that to make it clear to you that I answered the question appropriately. I specified how Americans are feeling to back my statement of them being aware or not. Do you think the PNW, in general, gets their news from right wing news sources?

I don’t think I’m the confused one here, to be honest with you, as shown by the other answers and upvotes in this thread. You do not have to specify non-US news to know that we’re a rogue state - plenty of US media reports on it all the same. The question is clearly asking if Americans are aware that they’re now a rogue state, and I answered appropriately.

It seems like maybe you don’t want that to be the case, but my answer still stands: Yes, many Americans, especially in the PNW, are very aware of that fact. Americans in red states [the ones who watch Fox news especially] have their heads in the sand. You do not need to consume any media at all to be aware of that fact, it helps, but you don’t require it to acknowledge it.

I fully understand and acknowledge that we’re seen as a rogue state externally, and am painfully aware, as is much of the PNW. It’s the red states that think “we’re the best country in the world, and in fact, the only one that matters”, which is exactly what my first comment was describing. People in blue states are rightfully embarrassed and are trying to distance themselves from the federal government for precisely this reason.

I don’t think I agree, and many in the thread didn’t get that idea. People outside of the US are obviously aware, the title is clearly asking if people inside of the United States are aware. Why would someone outside of the US have to ask if people outside of the US are aware? It makes no sense.

also (emphasis mine):

people in the US aware that they are a rogue state

It makes no grammatical sense if they’re asking about opinions outside of the US.