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Pretty sure that you’re a teenager for seven years, not five.

Catch up on sleep.

I have asked for sources when a post makes an extraordinary claim. It’s rare that I get anything meaningful as a response, but often I learn something or both of us do.

You can even archive extended attributes with the ‘--xattrs flag.

Docker is not virtualisation, although it’s a common misconception.

A better way to think of it is a security wrapper around untrusted processes.

You can prove this for yourself by looking at all the processes running in a Docker host while one or more containers are running, you’ll see all the processes listed.

In other words, you don’t need a CPU capable of virtualisation to run Docker.

My “smart” phone is rarely used as a telephone. It’s set to silent, all notifications turned off, blocks unknown numbers, transcribes voicemail and spends most of the day as a window to the world.

I’m not sure what, if anything, a “dumb” phone would add to my life, except more interruption, more administration to keep contacts up to date, and yet another device to charge and maintain.

Who can see?

My observation was based on personal experience after noticing that an account blocked me.

As a point of reference, on Bluesky, it appears that if you’re blocked, you cannot see the account that blocked you. Essentially they just disappeared. They’ve not visible in search either.

So, unless you create another account, they ceased to exist.

Just to be clear, as far as I can tell, this invisibility is mutual as soon as one account blocks the other.

I live here and that’s pretty much the case. Mind you, this is the first I hear that we’ve agreed to this and I daresay there will be some vigorous discussion among us Sandgropers.

Use a bash command line:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6250698/how-to-decode-url-encoded-string-in-shell

Incoming tenders with prompt injection in … Three … Two … One.

With the quality of Assumed Intelligence detectors, this is unlikely to ever come to pass, especially since humans are involved.

This is like banning H₂O, NaCl and C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ from your life because “you don’t like chemicals”.

(Water, Salt and Sugar)

FYI:

We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure.

Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/important-notice-of-security-incident/930523

Excellent.

Unfortunately, I strongly suspect that the depth of the pockets paying for legal fees is likely to determine the outcome, rather than any pesky facts.

That depends …

OP was talking about Lineage, not Graphene.

If an app doesn’t have data it cannot share it.

If you don’t install the app, it cannot breach your privacy.

You don’t need direct internet access to leak information, for example, an app with access to your calendar has indirect internet access.

Plex has been around for a while, long before “capitalism happened” as you put it. At the time it spawned a whole lot of different alternatives, it also triggered how we interact with our media libraries. I recall having to set-up my own server and client before I could start to import and manage my own media. That wasn’t trivial, least of which caused by needing to rip DVD without the high speed access to internet acting as a source.

Keep your existing phone and OS.

Use it differently. Decide what information you store on it, which applications you install or disable, what permissions you grant and what services you use.

Just installing an OS to “debloat and degoogle” is not ever going to change anything unless you change your habits and you don’t need to change OS to do that.

Except that this is just not true. If it were, there’d be only one car, one bike, one house, one pair of underpants and one type of food.

Humans love to find something that’s unique, it’s why Starbucks makes a gazillion types of coffee and people choose to buy it there, customised to their level of “uniqueness”, or elsewhere.

There is no one Linux distro and that’s it’s strength.