It stopped happening to me when I bought hardware supported by Linux. Intel or AMD GPU, a Thinkpad laptop, Atheros wifi, all the stuff that people recommend.

From what I’ve read, Graphene pushed the battery updates though

Yup, good luck trying to find user’s manual for Android for example

They work good, phone lost all connectivity inside. So does Mission Darkness.

Germany is great in this regard, you have coin machines everywhere and the cash and privacy culture seems to be very strong.

Yes, all the time, be grateful that it’s your first. Really annoying in the middle of research.

https://litterbox.catbox.moe/

https://transfer.it/

I’m kind of living the 1) life, I have a degoogled smartphone in eternal airplane mode and only free software apps. So in practice I have none of the apps “required” to live.

In large cities, transportation is getting more and more difficult without uber. Bike/escooter rentals also stopped working without an app. I use osmand on my offline smartphone to find taxi stands, so that’s cheating by your standards, but stands are empty these days and the drivers are a bit surprised and comment that “most people order a taxi by phone these days”.

I’ve lost most of my friends when I quit facebook, when we randomly meet we still have a small chat but I don’t get invited to events (birthdays etc) any more. Big respect to the few that still don’t mind sending an sms or email (and even more respect to the 2 friends who keep an xmpp client with only me as a contact)

Increasingly, I don’t know what’s going on around me because businesses, libraries etc advertise only on “spotted” on facebook, have presence only on fb, and don’t even care about telling the local news about events or openings. I only know about that because of other people who use facebook.

It worked great only on Windows PCs in the times when PC and Windows still weren’t the definite winners of the technological race and people have been using all kinds of computers.

Watch with subs?

Explained: How to run 2 VPNs on Android simultaneously I had been looking on the internet a method that would enable me to run 2 VPN apps on the same device simultaneously, but just got to solve this.

My setting: I was trying to route all my firewalled traffic (ReThink Firewall) through a proxy to another vpn app. Psiphon Pro (FOSS) can accept traffic from inbound proxy but itself establishes a VPN profile and thus the firewall can’t connect (which too requires to function as a VPN).

VPN app in main profile: Rethink Firewall (FOSS, Fdroid)

VPN app in work profile: Psiphon Pro (Free VPN, Playstore)

Shelter app lets you clone apps using the work profile feature and takes only a few MBs

I used this setup on Android 13 and it works.

Solution:

Using the open source app, Shelter (Fdroid) create a work profile. A work profile can have its own VPN app running along with main (personal) profile’s VPN.

Install and configure the Rethink Firewall on Main profile.

In Shelter, set the Psiphon app to “Allow Cross-Profile Interaction”

Run the Psiphon VPN (app that would accept inbound traffic). In its logs section, see the SOCKS proxy port.

Set the proxy port to the same in Rethink Firewall in the correct way. As, 127.0.0.1:{port}

Now Rethink Firewall is able to tunnel all its traffic into Psiphon Pro (running in work profile)

Thank you! That was enough information for me to find this guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/1j74tv0/explained_how_to_run_2_vpns_on_android/

If you don’t want to download without vpn, try a short subscription of debrid or a seedbox

Can you give me an example vpn app so I can play with it myself?

Great software!

Thank you for your answer! Do you think copyparty would work together with Syncthing on the same backing directory, or would they compete for changes etc? Copyparty in this scenario would be for sharing content with friends and occasional remote upload

I have a question, and I want to emphasise thar this is not criticism but a request for dive into technicalities.

In the video you mentioned copyparty has an one-way sync tool. Is there a good reason why it’s not two-way, or is this just something you weren’t motivated to do?

Could it be that the number of users testing tor in safest mode is disproportionate on the EFF site compared to the rest of the internet?

Nextcloud is like Windows 95, it works great when you install it then it just keeps getting slower as you fill it with content

I think Copyparty would be great for that purpose. The only thing you’re missing is a way to expose it to the internet, such as a public IP or some tunnel