And you can also buy virtual debit cards With crypto

If so it can still be forked because it’s open source. So not an issue imo

Why not use KDE connect instead and skip the cloud?

Then you even have less privacy. Heard if UBO registers?

Having an Iranian close friend. They’re culturally in no way aware of why privacy is useful and important. So I have a complete profile on his phone with all my private data that’s synced to every service that syncs contact details. My pics and videos are uploaded to big tech and used to train AI because of the functions they provide to improve quality or made other modifications.

Looks like a hacky and far from perfect approach here. In the gap where you lose your VPN connection and the script triggers, there’s a timeframe that your torrent software will leak a lot of data. A better approach here is to enforce only VPN connections via your firewall. Whitelist outgoing connections to your VPN destination, blacklist the rest. On Linux make the torrent systemd unit also have a dependency on the VPN connection, that it: your torrent service won’t start if the VPN service isn’t active. So in case your VPN disables at some point,the firewall will still do its work.

Posteo yes and addy.io for using custom domains for incoming emails

Why should that be an issue? It’s fully open source

Reality proves enough that forbidding drugs doesn’t work though, it just creates a lot of other problems. Forbidding some parts of it like ads about them, selling to minors etc do have effect however

What about a hardware key? Like nitrokey or yubikey?

How would peer reviewing in a user repo be more a sense of false security compared to official repos? I don’t know any of the arch maintainers, so for me it’s also pure trust they don’t do shady stuff.

Peer reviewing would not be failproof for sure, but at least it would give more security than not reviewing the pkbuilds, and especially to those that aren’t too familiar with them

I would argue that it’s their own fault then. Laziness is not a valid excuse to put yourself so much at risk. If you start doing it consistently, it becomes a habit and won’t take much effort. Of course, the familiarity with PKBUILD syntax has a learning curve

But a peer-reviewing system would be a better approach in AUR. Weird that it’s not been implemented yet.

I don’t get all the noise around AUR being unsafe. Just verify the PKGBUILDS whenever you install or update something.

That’s an example of a minority ignoring or trying to talk their way around scientific facts. That’s something completely different.

Opinions can easily be based on ignorance, copycat behavior, group pressure, is a product of that time, etc. Even experience can be a wrong basis for an opinion

That’s worthy to be sceptic about indeed, because its a fact rather than an opinion

An opinion so strongly shared by a vast majority is worth being sceptic about.

Lokinet is a modern alternative to both

Not killing, but degrades in performance because batteries have a limited amount of charge cycles. The more intensive you use your phone, the faster the battery degrades

Another vote for fairphone here, but for reasons others failed to mention: replaceable battery, so even after 2 years, it can feel like new and keep most of its value (to resell if wanted); 5 years of updates + warranty; support for after market roms. Then there’s also the fair ethics part of it