You forgot that french juges have used the facts that people installed Linux, Signal, /e/OS and GrapheneOS has evidence to charge them!

this sounds insane but common for judges; do you have any sources for this?

it felt regurgitate to me, but probably because i tried most of these arguments in the past and they all failed to convince anyone.

he definitely did some damage to american soft power, but i suspect his goal was to concentrate it from several agencies into a single one.

that plus very clear indicators like von der leyen’s capitulation to trumps trade demands; macron’s & starmer’s refusal to comply w the arrests warrant for netanyahu; germany and the uk criminalizing support for the palestinians; and the spanish, greek & irish government’s public theater supporting the global sumud flotilla only to betray it at the last second suggests that europe is still doing what the united states wants it to do.

pixels are non-starters for me; i don’t want to make google any richer than i already have by being stuck in their ecosystem and my main concern is privacy from commercial entities.

i can recognize that i would be hopelessly outmatched by the american or isreali governments who have ultimate weaponry like prism or pegasus no matter what i did.

he called on European authorities to activate a mechanism that could limit the impact of US restrictions.

Europe needs greater sovereignty, especially in digital and banking matters. That is the only way to reduce the impact of sanctions and, indirectly, protect the victims of international crimes. Today, there is no room for naivety. Without sovereignty – military, health, financial and digital – we can no longer guarantee the rule of law. Some European lawmakers have become aware of these issues. Still, this awareness must grow among national governments and the European Commission, because behind the sanctions against the ICC lies the entire question of the rule of law.

it feels like he doesn’t know that the europeans are vassal states to the us empire and that even the most powerful members of the icc aligned countries are following the empire’s orders instead of the icc/icj’s orders.

what’s MAS?

With /e/OS, the bootloader can be relocked on Fairphone, Shiftphone, Teracube, and Google Pixel, and they are sold locked by Murena. https://community.e.foundation/t/list-devices-where-bootloader-can-be-relocked/48424

this was one of the things i’ve been waiting for! i was leaning towards graphene because of the bootloader lock, but i don’t want a pixel.

the next problem i have to wait for is better support for the network bands in north america. i know from experience that the bands that fairphone supports are the same that my chinese phones supported in the past; which meant that i got no signal inside of large buildings and had to rely on wifi. i’ve never heard of shiftphone nor teracube, so i hope that their band support is better.

looks like it only works if you upgraded from win10.

this laptop came w win11 by default.

up until now, i thought that windows home was the lowest level trim i could get.

I’ve done that in the past and it’s taught me that I have bad luck w second hand personal electronics.

nation states engage in harvest now, decrypt later.

especially so w encryption breaking quantum computing being a reality and the us is currently in the lead in this regard.

Why can’t you downgrade to W10?

i didn’t know i could do that. is it possible with a windows oem license that came with the laptop?

this is the first windows machine i’ve had since 2012 and i’ve only used linux or mac since then so i’m not so well versed in the windows eco-system anymore.

i decided this for myself a couples years ago (except it was windows 7 for me).

fast forward a decade later and here i am typing this on a laptop that came with windows 11. lol

the only way i escaped this until now as being able to afford the hefty price tags on linux-only hardware with something like system76 and i can’t afford it anymore since i no longer earn a software engineer’s salary.

Thought as long as you keep Firefox session open the id will be the same.

makes mental note to shutdown firefox on mobile more often.

I wonder why this is needed. Why would a shopping center need long-range wireless networking devices?

it’s really common in retail where they have an interest in data analytics of their customers and don’t trust their landlord or local isp (or have no isp readily available to them)

this project has always been made out of old or second hardware and this isn’t the first motherboard to die; but thanks for the well wishing anyways.

it is in the western world and especially true in the united states.

i had been using chinese phones until recently and they all prompted for “secure keyboard” or “regular keyboard” for passwords/pins; but i suspect that the secured keyboard option had a backdoor installed. lol

it’s hard to blame them: the entirety of technology is trying to adopt AI due to all of the money that’s being flashed at them for doing so; our entire economy is based on it right now.

most of the fediverse is dedicated to mainstream “general interest” sharing and hobbyism requires a passion that usually doesn’t align with the mainstream.

the people who engage in hobbies share it fellow enthusiasts and they seek out niche places where it can be shared and, currently, the dominant niche interests on the fediverse are either technology, privacy, identity or politics. the mainstream doesn’t like any (especially the latter) so most ignore it at best or block it at worst and then complain that there’s no niche content.