Tes plz

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.

Ai has made me a better bug hunter. I point an LLM at an application I like to use and give it a prompt like please scan this codebase URL for bugs.

If it comes back with any, I then try to confirm them for myself to make sure it’s not hallucinating any, and if that bug actually does exist, then I can report it.

I found one critical vulnerability and several high severity issues in an app that I enjoy using and reported them to the developer and got them fixed.

Its Nura at nura.eco

And I am bound and determined that my next phone will be running Nura. I’m already looking up replacement apps and teaching myself to use command line Monero wallets in case there is no graphical wallet available for it by the time I switch.

And I am that much closer to moving to a phone running Nura

I have already been looking up what apps I can replace things with and teaching myself to use command line Monero wallets so that I can continue using Monero even with no graphical wallet available yet.

If I get a new device in 2027 or 2028, then I will have abandoned Android after running it for something like 14 or 15 years.

It’s kind of amazing. I do most of this stuff in my day-to-day life without even thinking about it.

I still buy digital media, but only if it’s in a format that I can download and keep locally, such as when I buy albums these days, I make sure to buy the MP3 versions so that I can download them to my machine and keep them.

Anything that’s accessed through some sort of app and won’t allow me to download it is an immediate no.

What is reddit? I thought it died in like 2023. I know I haven’t used it since they killed the third-party apps for it.

For me, the camera is totally unimportant other than being able to scan QR codes and do pinch to zoom so that I can read print because of me being legally blind. But as far as pictures go, I basically never use the camera.

Pretty much as long as it can scan QR codes, I’m okay with it.

Yeah, true. I fully intend for my next phone to be running Nura, no matter how much shit I have to put up with. I do need the basic functions of a phone to work, though. Speakers, microphones, call, text, mobile data, and Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. I figure the touchscreen is a given.

I am and I’m not at the same time because the FP5 isn’t super easy to get in the US. The FP6 plus is the first one that’s actually sold here.

Very nice. Remember to put the gender tags in the title though, as the rules mandate.

Mmm, good point

I am using my password manager, which is keepass.

I have tried adding pass keys to it, and have had mixed success. On some websites, it seems to work fine, and then on others, it seems to break miserably, and made me return back to a password.

I like the idea of passkeys, because then you don’t have a shared secret between you and the website, and you get a different key for every single website using public-private key cryptography. That’s fantastic, but the implementation still needs some work.

Harder to find content, but otherwise alright. I was honestly a little bit surprised at how many channels I did find that I follow on YouTube were already on Odysee or Rumble. Though I used to watch two channels about the US cellular networks such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon that are not on any of the other platforms. So I just lost that content.

I started routing all of my system traffic through Tor recently, which made YouTube nearly impossible to watch. So, my watching time on YouTube has dropped, and I have started watching more Rumble, Odysee, and PeerTube.

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.

Hopefully in the future they will offer the ability to pay with Monero.