It’s time to Escape From Reality! :3
I was under the impression that the barrier for the friend’s modern mac being unable to read the drive was due to the lack of hardware interface. Is there a greater barrier than that for the data?
If the data itself needs to be converted, consider looking for tools that can function from inside the VM (so none of the original data is lost before translation).
Have you tried creating a period-accurate Mac VM, allowing passthrough of the drive peripheral to the VM, then copying the data from the VM to something like a Mac format flashdrive?
A domain that isn’t hotly contested (basically anything over 10-12 characters), usually goes for under 8 USD a year. So probably wouldn’t jump up that much.
Aurora should actually say in the description of the installation/update screen if the app requires google play services or any telemetry at all (or for that matter, google sign in).
If fairphone had the hardware support and kept up with modern android versions, GOS would have no beef.
Self hosting stoat is gonna be awesome for my community :)
GrapheneOS has guides for installing regardless of platform, here’s the relevant page on their official site.
GrapheneOS supports a “duress password” that you can enter to lock up the phone and securely erase any data stored - it’s designed for those situations (so just push that pin in if you’re in that situation).
(Selfhosting, not using a model that is not hosted on your own hardware)
Step 1 - don’t use apps on a phone and instead use an appropriate open source sandbox on an actual x86 machine.
The mobile-focused development cycle and its consequences have been a disaster for user agency.
Grayjay does allow you to use an account only for age gate/content gate authentication, so I wonder if there are any burner or public google accounts that could be repurposed for that (junk because multiple people use them)
Didn’t Louis Rossmann say that the conversion rate when they briefly ran repair shop ads was less than 2% or something similar? I think he referred to it when talking about using adblock and donating/buying merch for your favorite creators instead.
The multiple layers of redundancy would likely clash with Adnauseum, yeah. Although that probably is just wasted compute - you may only need one or two of those solutions to have effective adblocking (uBlock for supported browsers, pi.hole for devices unable to have uBlock installed) rather than all 3 at once.
Same, glad to hear there are others who found the path free from these parasites :)
All clicks are performed in an isolated sandbox separate from the user area (basically imagine the click register signal going out, but nothing more).
I’ve never heard the term trekkie before, what’s it referring to?
That’s why something like the duress password exists for GrapheneOS - just keep a backup of the important stuff at a separate location away from your pockets.
Don’t forget the duress password and the protections in BFU state! :)
Proton and Tuta both offered that as an initial hook, though. Once it became clear that it was no longer sustainable to have minimal restrictions on free accounts, they had to move the needle and incentivize purchases.
I don’t there would be many due to the liability concerns. Also, it’s a classic case of “if something is free, then you are the product”. You can pay for an email provider that won’t ask questions from you, deal with the restrictions (and potential privacy invasions) of the “free” options, or self-host.
Yup, FreeCAD, Cura slicer, and my printer only hooked up to the outlet.
Theoretically you could also make your own printer from scratch with a few DVD drives and hard drives from a local ewaste facility.