Unfortunately that’s not the case. there are many who don’t understand what’s that after the weird “a”

you can turn off the google stuff

until google allows that

that’s what I was thinking too, seeing that her head is sideways, not looking into the camera or even under it like to a screen

didn’t really rocket but yeah, it had a notable increase

Pretty sure roku ones don’t allow to be used until you accept their terms online

system apps have whatever permissions they want, and you can’t remove them. so much for easy permission management, when the adversary is the manufacturer

well only if that becomes possible at all

No more upgradable storage, no easily swappable batteries, no more repairability and no more brick like durability.

that’s your Modern Approach

the change is to signal a modern approach to the ThinkPad range

framework exists now

that’s true but they are quite expensive.

got it from a thrift shop, I don’t even know what that square thing is

It’s useful but opening such a form takes nearly as much time as filling it out

I use gitea, with sometimes nextcloud tasks. I only make gitea issues for longer lived or more complex tasks because I can take a lot of notes along the way, and nextcloud tasks only for things that I want to show up in my calendar.

it would be so good if there was some kind of integration between the two, to create tasks for issues with a deadline.

earlier I have used vikunja instead of nextcloud for tasks, but it has the same limitations, plus thunderbird is not compatible with it (the only half decent calendar software I know of for windows), and the web client makes itself unusable when there’s no network, by which I mean you can’t even read the pages that you made sure to preload

block all you want, but they did not say to ignore the context and be happy

I joined lemmy after reddit API changes

that wasn’t 2 years ago. it’s 1 and a few months

businesses are truly developing malware

because they don’t yet circumvent it. but also, are you completely sure everything is blocked? DoT, DoH traffic and such?

as an additional measure, sure. but these blocks are not hard to circumvent, so it’s not enough in itself

That’s undoubtedly useful, but won’t help with the google part, even if it uninstalls some google apps

GrapheneOS for google pixel phones, otherwise CalyxOS, DivestOS, maybe even IodéOS. All of these are Android but with better defaults, without irremovable spying garbage, and with some features nowhere else available.

if your phone is not supported by these, check LineageOS. or plan your next phone purchase according to the compatibility list of the above. if you’re going for longevity but you don’t need a flagship, Fairphone is agood choice, if you can look away from the lack of a JACK.

google through only the web, what a fucking joke. if you have a google account check your activity history. it will list the times you have opened an app.

if you don’t have a google account but your phone has google services, don’t be afraid that you can’t check it, they’re still harvesting it.

want to avoid it?
Step 0: don’t by samsung. xiaomi neither, they plan to make you unable to execute the next step.
Step 1: unlock your phone. take ownership into your hands. but back up your photos, the 2FA Authenticator app’s data and whatever else is important, because it will get deleted.
Step 2: install a privacy oriented custom ROM.
Step 3: profit

keep bank services contained in the firefox browser. if they don’t allow access there, switch banks, you’ll be better off with a smaller one anyways.

Question if that’s possible, especially if they really start a search engine, but yeah at least do not hand over the data on a golden plate