The Stargate Command? Aperture Science? both even assemble you back, and pay for it

If I didn’t want people to have access to them I wouldn’t be posting on the first place.

there’s the catch: it’s for people. not robots, not billionaires

if it’s an app, it’s not n OS, and does not replace an OS.

People want to replace the OS to get rid of forced data mining, forced updates, other limitations, and to be able to install other kinds of apps

just out of curiosity, would a nuke blow up most of the mines? like 90% or more?

maybe it’s hard to know, but this is just a thought experiment

the service normally does not require registration or login, neither any kind of payment, and they don’t run ads.
however, their public instance, meet.jit.si, got restricted a year or so ago because apparently bad people were using it for bad reasons. now a single participant is required to log in with a google account or something else they offer.

there were also many public instances. but soon a lot of them closed too, and the public lists have disappeared, so I believe jitsi did not do what they did out of data hunger.
there’s still a few that doesn’t require any kind of account, if you’re interested I can send a link in PM. It’s better if you don’t publish it either.

oh and if it tells anything. if you have heard about matrix.org, they were using jitsi for calls for a long time. they have switched to an in-house solution to have better platform integration, but it was fine

I love the or in this sentence

here’s my newest invention, zero knowledge location privacy without snarks.

app on phone periodically checks location. if home is near, it triggers home related actions instead of uploading the location to anywhere.

now, where is the nearest patent office? /s

did you try jitsi?

Peter Magyar appeared very suddenly when they did, it seemed unnatural.

since then, I’ve heard that one of his co-workers worked previously at Meta. take this with a grain of source though, couldn’t find the source

scraping bots are expected to visit it, nowadays more than in previous years. a few of them are search engines, but there’s a lot of scraping for AI training, both on text and image data.

And I wondered who in their right mind would buy just half of that best friends forever charm.

anyone who would like to joke with their depression. I can imagine doing that.

now I actually want something like this

because it’s much less important and so much less risky

¯\(ツ)/¯

don’t forget that the new outlook app right out steals the login details to your email accounts, along with all emails you will send and receive even after uninstalling that malware:

https://proton.me/blog/outlook-is-microsofts-new-data-collection-service

if the burner phone is a cheap smartphone, it could still be helpful

who? you have opened the comment section

yeah they are pretty good apps! basically a must-have for protests, if you bring a smartphone. maybe for traveling too, in case it’s stolen

so this is a restart-on-schedule feature that can skip a restart on certain conditions

depends on your phone. at first encryption was done in an all-or-nothing style, so system startup couldn’t complete without a first unlock. then android started using file based encryption, which was used selectively, encrypting certain things so that they are accessible without an unlock.

the best way to figure it out is to set a new alarm 10 minutes from now, reboot your phone manually, and see whether the alarm goes off

samsung devices are still a different beast, they have their unique little everything and the standard tools don’t work there