Yes, it’s possible. Some things might be challenging, like keeping the system up to date without the user having access to an app repository, but it’s possible e.g. by running a script as a cron job.
Whether it’s a good idea is harder to say. Linux distributions for phones are not especially mature and polished compared to desktop Linux. You might get better advice if you explain why you want to do this and who the intended user is.
adb sideload is for installing an OS or OS update. The command to install an app is adb install.
I wasn’t really thinking about cultural differences in my comment. The friend in question is a conventionally attractive woman who lives in the USA.
A friend who gets catcalled often thinks it’s mostly men posturing for other men; they don’t usually do it when they’re alone.
Who do you want privacy from and why?
That’s not a rhetorical question. It matters. If you want privacy from corporations and governments doing mass surveillance because you’re against mass surveillance in principle, Signal is great! As long as you don’t give janky apps permission to read your notifications, or you limit what Signal shows in its notifications, your device won’t leak to those kinds of threat actors. You can’t be sure everyone you talk to is as fastidious though.
If the cops, gangsters, or similar are likely to target you and the people you’re talking to directly, there’s a good chance just using Signal without a security plan won’t keep them from getting the contents of the conversation as in this recent incident where the FBI extracted deleted messages from notification logs. To defend against that specific attack, everyone needs to configure Signal to keep message content and contact details out of the notification. Dedicated devices for secure communication set up by someone who knows what they’re doing are ideal in this situation. Signal is still a good choice here, but Signal alone won’t guarantee privacy.
If you’re being targeted by an intelligence agency from a rich country that has allocated a significant budget to surveil you in particular, you’re probably screwed. There’s plenty of public information about how US government officials and contractors are required to work with classified information to get a sense of how you might try to mount a defense. It’s guaranteed to be inconvenient.
Based on a quick web search, staff can only remove people temporarily for rule violations; it takes a court order to get a long-term ban from the NYC subway.
People type usernames more than once in 2026? I thought everyone had password managers by now.
Either way, the real username there is Nemo in standard Latin characters and ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 is a display name configured in the settings.
others who are interested pull copies of them to their server where they can respond or not.
To be technical, most ActivityPub federation is push, not pull. The server sends actions to other servers with members that have subscribed to the relevant community. In some cases, a user asks for something a server doesn’t have and it attempts to pull it from the server that hosts it.
I remember being a kid and hearing about a family member’s workplace instituting a rule against discussing pay after some people got upset they were making less than their coworkers and started advocating for higher pay.
Neither I nor anyone in my immediate family was a leftist, but it seemed really obvious the primary reason for the rule was that management didn’t want people to have reasons to demand higher pay.
Because Nixon and Kissinger made a deal with the Saudis to conduct all their oil transactions in dollars in exchange for military protection.
The dollar was probably the most desirable currency for international transactions before that though. The USA was the largest economy by far, and USD was convertible to gold at a fixed rate.
A web UI could keep drafts indefinitely like that too. It doesn’t even need to send anything to the server; local storage has been a thing in browsers for a long time.
I’m going to guess you never learned to touch type. The thought of writing long-form content on a phone keyboard makes my thumbs cramp up.
“Some unlucky people” turns out to be 85% of people with depression. What that suggests to me is that depression is a syndrome with multiple causes, and typical antidepressant drugs treat one of them.
Sony, you have a niche in this market. Lean in to your niche. You’re not going to displace Samsung, Xiaomi, or Oppo by making something just like they do, but you can easily lose the market share you do have.
Kinderficker has been sadly relevant lately.
They won’t affect Android builds that aren’t Google-certified directly.
They’ll affect F-Droid in that most people won’t be able to install most apps from F-Droid without an obnoxious process and a waiting period. That will affect what people spend their time building and will likely result in fewer open source apps being created and maintained.
A well-run community will either be explicit about its age/karma requirement, or it will manually approve filtered posts from low-reputation accounts. I moderate /r/flashlight and we use the latter approach.
That takes work though. Some moderators are lazy, and some communities are understaffed. That’s not good, but it most cases it’s not malicious. It has fairly little to do with Reddit the company making money from advertisers.
I know who LockPickingLawyer is, and I know that disc detainer locks are hard to pick.
My point is that cloning keys from pictures also requires specialized equipment (or a file and a very high level of skill). The only real exception is standardized keys someone might recognize like the Ford fleet key. Those used to come up in an Amazon search for “police car key”.
Epstein isn’t dead.
He blackmailed someone into faking his death and getting him out of jail. There are plenty of candidates from Mossad to the president of the USA. He’s keeping a low profile, and if he’s ever found out, he’ll ruin someone, perhaps several someones.