Interesting, I knew they provide SIM for non eSIM phones (have a JMP SIM on the way with its USB adapter) but didn’t know about that service. Can you please explain a bit more how it works?
PS: for Europeans who worry about tariffs, mine wasn’t sent from the US, or Canada, but rather Netherlands, FWIW.
as how to change your default browser and search engine, suggestions for different OS’s and how to install them on any kind of computer, different options for Microsoft software, etc. For example, I’m on a Mac just because it’s still good and I don’t want to pay for a new one…I’d love either some simple ways to “harden” it and/or install Linux.
Wonderful, I can do that! I indeed assume that people just don’t “want” to install Linux because they think Windows, or other Microsoft products, is “good enough” for them but maybe they just don’t know how or imagine they don’t have the ability to do so. That’s a great suggestion I’ll try to address it soon, thanks!
buy the burner device in the US
Can you trust it then though?
With sxmo as the interface.
Ah… thanks! Well let me ask then, if there was another “Beyond Monopoly” video that could be less “advanced” what would you like it to be about?
FWIW I believe it’s mostly, if not only, for code.
My pleasure, thanks for sharing all this important knowledge!
PS: I have few related things on https://fabien.benetou.fr/Cookbook/DigitalSelfSovereignty so I’d be curious to hear your opinion on it.
Link https://www.punchinguppress.com/post/disengage-from-the-internet and ToC :
Part 1: Why Disengage?
Chapter 1: What We’re Fighting Against
Chapter 2: How Do We Reclaim Our Lives By Disengaging?
Chapter 3: Giants In The Dark
Part 2: Disengage By…Reclaiming Your Data
Chapter 4: Pay Attention to Privacy Policies
Chapter 5: Control Your Online Accounts
Chapter 6: Bash The Brokers
Chapter 7: Surf In Secret
Chapter 8: Escape Email Tracking
Chapter 9: Protect Your Phone
Chapter 10: Stop Being Loyal
Part 3: Disengage By…Reclaiming Your Home
Chapter 11: Hide Your Home Address
Chapter 12: Remove Your Home Photos From The Web
Chapter 13: Banish Smart Products From Your Spaces
Part 4: Disengage By…Reclaiming Your Content
Chapter 14: Protect Your Posts
Chapter 15: Retract Your Reviews
Chapter 16: Say Sayonara To Social Media
Part 5: Disengage By…Reclaiming Your Attention
Chapter 17: Don’t Surf If You Don’t Need To
Chapter 18: Annihilate Ads
Chapter 19: Say See Ya To Your Smartphone
Chapter 20: Ghost Corporate News
Part 6: Disengage By…Quitting The Big 4
Chapter 21: Say Goodbye To Google
Chapter 22: Say Au Revoir To Amazon
Chapter 23: Say Arrivederci To Apple
Chapter 24: Say Mmm-Bye To Microsoft
Part 7: Live Your Life
Same here, I’m not a pro but I tried few years ago and it wasn’t that stable. Now I can’t remember the last time it did crash on me, kudos to people behind Kdenlive!
Valve’s Debian based SteamOS
Not to confuse with the Arch based SteamOS running on the SteamDeck which is very functional.
I haven’t dig into it but I’d check https://lucaweiss.eu/post/2024-06-24-esim-manager-for-mobile-linux/ i.e. yes, in theory “normal” distributions as you list “should” support it… but rarely do modems on desktop (or even laptops?) support eSIM. Consequently it’s more on other devices, e.g. phones, and those tend to have dedicated distributions, e.g. PostMarketOS on a FairPhone but not on PinePhone as it doesn’t have eSIM support.
The general consensus amongst the Android community is that rooting is detrimental to privacy. In a sense, I agree with them since privilege escalation because of human error becomes a much bigger threat if the user has root access.
No, that’s BS. It entirely depends on your “threat model” just like security.
Namely if you go full OSHW/FLOSS and yet you volunteer your data on Facebook.com (or whatever that website is called today) then you have no privacy. It’s not a technical problem, it’s a behavior problem.
If your threat model is about government hiring dedicated staff to know what you are up to, or that the infrastructure you rely is can’t be trusted, then rooting is the last of your problems.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t worry but I don’t see the relevance of rooting Android in that situation. Root or not does not somehow change how your modem behaves, you’re still at the mercy of the drivers.
I recommend you check projects like Precursor (at https://precursor.dev/ redirecting to the CrowdSupply page) which try to tackle, if I understood correctly, the kind of worry you have, namely actually understand the entire stack.
That being said, even in such context, you still rely on some infrastructure to relay messages to others so you need that and the recipients to also respect your privacy. If not (which would be a fair assumption) then at least you must understand the cryptographic primitives you rely on… and if you don’t (which most people don’t, me included despite my interest in the mathematics behind that, in particular one-way functions) then you have to some trust in the public research in the domain.
So… I do have a Precursor, tinker with it, PinePhone and PinePhone Pro, had an iOS phone until recently, switched to (rooted) /e/OS and my personal position is that while interacting with others (and a mobile is 100% about that) one has to make pragmatic about their choices.
I recommend letting content creators about this and suggesting alternatives, e.g. PeerTube instances, Vimeo, etc.