I’m actually using TorVPN on my device, and if it drops, I force all my internet connections to drop with it instead of leaking.

I find that I can still access most things, although some things will pretend that the connection can’t be established as if the site was down, and others will just give me like an access denied page.

The reason I am doing it at all to begin with is because one day we as free citizens are going to have to abandon the clear net entirely as it’s becoming the cuck net. I’m just preparing for that day by learning to use the services over tour today and getting used to the speeds and stuff I will have to deal with at that point.

Its Nura at nura.eco

Mmm, good point

Even if they have you powered on, the fact that it’s in the before-first unlock state means that the file-based encryption still holds and it cannot be unlocked with biometrics.

Just budget for a cheap ass phone for when you cross the border and don’t take your actual device with you. Or if you do take it with you when you cross, make sure that it is off during the entire transit.

Yeah, that is possible. That’s the risk you take, though, by wanting to be so private with a system that’s not meant for privacy.

If you want true privacy you control, go create yourself an .onion domain.

Use websites whenever possible instead of apps. And try your best to use FOSS apps from places like FDroid as much as possible.

Check out incognet.io. You can buy a domain and pay for it with Monero.

And you do not have to give information about yourself. You are identified as incognit user, and then the company’s street address.

With that said, you don’t actually own the domain because it is in their name with their street address, so it’s mainly a for-benefit of type arrangement where the company actually owns it, and then they allow you to use it. As I said, you can pay with Monero, and the only thing you have to give them is an email address and a password, and they accept alias email addresses.

I think low battery notifications should be part of AOSP, so they should be in all Android flavors. So the fact that you don’t have them seems odd to me.

Personally, I’m using an app called BatteryBot from FDroid. It doesn’t do much, but what it does allow you to do is set notifications at custom battery percentages. So I have it set to send an alert and vibrate my phone when it gets below 30% and then I plug it in and charge it up to 80% where the system has been set to stop charging it and I get another alert once it hits 80%. Well, okay, to be fair, I have it set to go off at 80%, but it does not go off until it’s above 80%, so I have the phone charged to 81%, and it doesn’t go off at 30%. It goes off when the charge drops below 30%, so it goes off at 29%.

It could well be a fed project, who knows?

Why do that? If they ask you why you have a fully factory reset device with you, just say it’s to keep jackboot thugs like you from being assholes.

See if lineage OS might support it.

To the best of my knowledge, that already exists and is called Chromium OS.

Only use darkweb to visit darkweb services. As long as you’re staying in the network and not trying to exit out to the clear net, then there’s really not much that can be done.

Meshcore is a step up from Meshtastic for people who actually want to use it for true communications and Reticulum is the next level above even that, but the user experience could definitely use some work first.

I completely agree with this, and the next phone I purchase, I’m going to make sure it’s capable of running post-market OS before purchase.

I’m willing to put up with the inconvenience to help push Linux phone adoption forward.

Brazil

I stopped using all Facebook products back in like 2015.

XMRBazaar.com

IDK about eBay, but anybody from anywhere is allowed to use XMRBazaar.