You can convert an older car to electric. As basic as it gets but with a new mode of power

Came here to suggest that. We need to gather sentiment

Mullvad, Proton, and IVPN are the most trustworthy. Not sure if the other two support port forwarding

Not having a private OS and messaging.

The best option as of now is the Punkt phone

Mullvad has a few obfuscation techniques with a new one that just came out. I’m curious if they’ll help in this application

I’d assume something along those lines but who knows how the enshittification will continue to develop. Having crap TOS always leads to companies taking advantage of it eventually to make more money

That mindset allows them to keep doing it

Steam will do a rug pull one day. You purchase a license to their games, you do not own them.

Use Ethernet on the Mint install to get internet and update the kernel to the latest 6.14. Maybe it’ll then be supported

The inconvenience of switching and learning a new thing is the largest deterrent. People complain but don’t care enough due to those reasons to switch.

I only text people on Signal, except the old grandparents or potential new friends that I will in time get to switch to Signal.

Get a new 8a for $300-$350. If you are going down the privacy rabbit hole you’ll regret not using GrapheneOS

Have you read their transparent EULA where it states you purchase a license to the game and don’t actually own it?

This is really awesome! I’m 100% going to build a little system for this.

Maybe the Volla tablet

I haven’t played anything recently but have been enjoying watching YouTube videos on the creation and history of classic games like Donkey Kong, Roller Coaster Tycoon, and others

I totally disagree. I’ve had very very minimal issues with anything on GrapheneOS and they use Pixel hardware because they have extra hardware security chips in them

Have you considered changing distros?

Yeah. I also have GrapheneOS on my work tablet

One good thing from email is Delta chat. It’s encrypted messaging built on the email infrastructure which is decentralized. In principle that’s better than the likes of Signal, just not as refined yet. We shouldn’t kill all these existing things but rather leave them for applications that they work well for that benefit the people that need those things.

It appears to be a way of running containers in the terminal with the specific intent to have a certain distro image installed, run a program, and give it permission to interact with your system’s home directory with an easy to launch icon. It looks pretty darn handy, I’m going to give it a try this weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDt4O6UPRw