There are lots of scientific groups that work in the so called soft sciences that apply the usual methods of the hard sciences. It’s not about soft or hard, it’s about good or bad.

So it seems that letting LLMs to write sloppy posts for us can be useful after all. May be c/privacy should implement an automatic AI reformating XD

I mean… yeah, you have to be pretty crazy to be happy living in this world as it is right now.

Yeah, using your 12 or 24 words you saved elsewhere safely. First create a new wallet having a new set of 12/24 words and select an address to receive coins. Then restore the original wallet with your saved words and transfer you coins to the selected new address. Now your coins are safe in the new address and the new set of words are the ones you have to keep safe.

Interesting, I’ll check it out. I see the flapak release, will you make it available from flathub?

There are a couple of things you can do:

1. Hide the app from the app drawer. To open the app you have to go to settings and look for the complete app listing which include system apps. Search how to hide an app for your particular android version.
2. Connect the phone to the computer and install the wallet as a system app using adb. Being a system appt you can disable it from the app’s context menu and the app will not be visible. To open it you have to enable it from the settings.

In both cases is extremely improbable that someone that grabs it will start to look for hidden or disabled apps in an old and seemingly discarded phone. That’s why nobody has to know that you save your keys in this way. Just grab an old phone, the older, cheaper and unatractive the better. Nature teaches us that disguise is the best way to hide. And in case is stolen, you have a good amount of time to move your coins to another wallet.

What you really need is an air gapped or cold storage and you can achieve this in many ways. I found that one of the best ways to do it is grabbing an old phone and following this guide. TLDR: install the software wallet and never connect the phone to the internet again and use QR codes to sign transactions using the camera. Practical, cheap, truly air gapped and doesn’t attract attention like a hardware wallet.

Posteo has an anonymized payment system, so you could pay with credit card and your payment information won’t be linked to your account.

Incarceration protects you from thieves and murderers, and sacrificing some liberty makes you safer.

It’s a script that I made some years ago. Give it executable permission and you can search (e.g. streema-cli jazz) play and save radio stations. I uses mpv. It loads saved stations when run with no arguments.

I moved to Linux, use Freetube, LineageOS on the phone, listen all day to internet radios from the command line, browser with uBlock add on and it’s been years since I saw or listened an ad.

No, IMO. For a real private android experience you have to switch to Lineage or Graphene and F-droid apps. I’m writing this from a Galaxy A5 2016 with LineageOS with F-droid only apps in one (main) profile and WhatsApp and a couple of other (in my case, sadly unavoidable) proprietary apps in another profile.

Here is a list of supported phones by LineageOS in case you are willing to switch.

It feels awesome.

Not surprising coming from a cat, not its field of expertise. Ask a mouse and it will explain you the difference between intensive and extensive properties of the cheese.

Brother HL-1212w fully FOSS USB only monochrome laser. If you have a router with USB and openwrt installed you can share the printer over the network. Cheap old printer but works great for just printing.

Using vanilla LineageOS and apps from F-droid which are open source you are fine. Most spyware and malware come from apps so LineageOS with F-droid is huge step from stock android concerning privacy and security. And improved version is GrapheneOS but I don’t think is a necessity for the average user, if that’s your case.

What kind of hair style are we looking for today?
*You hand over a piece of paper with the surface equation on it.

and crickets

You should check Mint again, things in the Linux world are improving fast lately. Some people got their grampas into Linux and they are happy using it, with your use case it can easily also be the case, the terminal it’s not needed, may be sporadically and to setup some things as you like at first, like changing settings to not enter passwords, may be it’s not so safe but it’s not as unsafe as using Windows. Just get used to the good habit of making regular backups. In any case just make a post asking and we will be happy to help. Just go ahead and slowly you will get confidence to do more difficult things. The freedom that you experience using Linux really worth it, but it can take time to appreciate.

If you use stock android and proprietary software, YES. Everything you type can be recorded before it’s encrypted.