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They'd get nothing helpful from Signal either and yet governments still do it. Governments often don't know what they're doing and are used to just being able to ask companies for user data

Ultimately there are always going to be people who don't have smartphones or computers, so society (including things which are currently almost mandatory to participate in society, like being able to bank) should be accessible to these people. If it's accessible for them, it's also accessible to people with smartphones or computers who have just removed the spyware from them.

I don't do mobile banking; I just bank from my desktop browser. Not sure if this is an option for you or not, but I would have thought that online banking in the web browser should be even more common than having a mobile app for it.

Not sure what you mean by "home brokers" blocking you but if you mean their wifi blocks you, I've experienced that too on GrapheneOS but have found that VPNs allow me to use pretty much any public wifi.

Does your government app have a web alternative? If not that seems incredibly discriminatory against people who don't have smartphones. If it has a web alternative but doesn't work with any particular privacy settings, do you have a local library with computers you can use?

Out of curiosity what do you dual boot for? I used to dual boot for gaming but I've lately found that proton works very well with my games and there is no need to run Windows for anything

Ive literally never heard of that. Windows can overwrite grub/your bootloader though (easy fix, just boot into a live usb and reinstall grub).

If Linux eats your Windows install that's a serious bug. That means it's overwritten data on a drive that's not even mounted, without you directing it to do so.

Dual booting is still using Windows.

(I'm not saying dual booting is bad, I'm just saying it doesn't count as not using Windows, which is what most Windows users are opposed to, not to dual-booting with Linux.)

UK also has GDPR. They left the EU after GDPR was passed and now have "UK GDPR" which is practically the same as the EU

"political organizing"

I didn't see that question, but all 3 of those countries seem to rank pretty high on the country demographics for FOSS that I've seen (as in when individual FOSS projects do demographics surveys of their users)

That's how I treated it too. I took it at face value.

I have modern hardware so I don't care too much about browser performance. All browsers perform well on my hardware. Obviously some are more lightweight and optimised, but I have no doubts about my ability to comfortably browse the web on my hardware, so all the performance questions I tended to rank in the middle (ie not most or least important) as I don't tend to notice browser performance.

It was randomised for me because the 2x slower option didn't appear with any AI questions for me

Bizarre survey yeah but also why is there a mandatory exact age question at the end? Isn't it normal to be able to opt out of demographic questions for surveys? It also lets us say we'd prefer not to say our gender but not our exact year of birth?

I'm ngl this is surprising to me, as GOS has always just worked out of the box the way I wanted it to for me.

But:

I’m facing the nearly insurmountable task of convincing my friends, family, and colleagues to download and use signal when they are all using encrypted iMessage.

Anyone who uses Android will experience this. I've never owned an iOS device in my life and I've always used SMS and Signal to talk to people. Have occasionally downloaded WhatsApp when a group of people insists on using it and I need to communicate with those people, but usually WhatsApp is uninstalled when I don't need it. I think most Android users just use WhatsApp though.

Most of my banking apps just simply do not work.

Even with sandboxed Google Play? Again, surprising to me tbh. All the banking apps I've used in the past have worked fine on GOS without any Google Play services, though I don't have any mobile banking apps installed atm. I second the other commenter who suggested switching banks if that's possible for you.

There’s also a few features that I’m assuming are iPhone exclusive that it really sucks to have without. Double tapping the bottom of the screen to shift everything down so you can reach the top of the screen with your finger when using one hand. Holding down on the space bar to move the text cursor between characters. Maybe these exist on gos though?

I'm sure you're not the only person who's switched from iOS to an Android-based system and misses these features. A custom launcher might have the former feature, and there must be an Android keyboard that offers the latter. Maybe ask around on more mainstream Android forums, as they'll probably have the most people switching from iOS to Android.

No clue about Yubikey, sorry. Never used it.

If you want to use an iPhone, you can. You don't have to use GOS. I understand if you've invested heavily in the Apple ecosystem, it's just inconvenient to stop using it all of a sudden. Ironically I sort of experienced something similar in reverse when I tried to daily drive Windows for a brief time because of gaming, and I found it so frustrating to not have access to a lot of the programs I used on Linux, and how things worked so differently (and in ways I thought were much worse) on Windows. Not quite the same since there's definitely no such thing as a "Linux ecosystem" in the same sense as an "Apple ecosystem" (good! I don't want to log into my online Linux account to boot my kernel...), but big changes to your tech workflow will be frustrating as you build up a new system that works the way you like from the ground up. I don't think using GOS as a daily driver is a necessity for everyone. I would like to promote people using degoogled, FOSS, privacy-respecting OSes both mobile and desktop, but ultimately, you are an autonomous human being and can use iPhones if you prefer to do so and are fully aware of the privacy issues.

How often do you normally pee? Why not just drink a lot of water? Generally IME if I drink a lot of water I'll urgently need to pee an hour later. Holding your pee for 8 hours sounds terrible to me.

Paperback. For big books maybe hardcover so it stays in one piece, but tbh all the 1000+ page books I have are still paperbacks. Even if they were the same price, I think paperbacks are easier to hold and read since they're more flexible. But the sturdiness of hardbacks can be nice sometimes

Funnily enough one of the points where Arch distinguishes themselves from other distros is that they're not strict about only including free software in their repos and are completely fine with including proprietary software alongside foss. There's Parabola if you want Arch but with a strong political line on free software

Zathura always displays odd pages on the right and even pages on the left. Which is how books are conventionally displayed, ie page 1 is typically recto. I don't think this behaviour can be configured, but if you need pages 2 and 3 displayed together then your book would display correctly in Zathura dual page mode. But if you needed 1 and 2 displayed together I don't think Zathura can do that unfortunately

Can I ask if you specifically need Instagram on your phone? When I was a social media person for an organisation I did it with a Firefox container on desktop exclusively.

Zathura, which is a lot like MuPDF. Press d to toggle the dual page view.

Edit: My bad, just read the part where you said "the option to adjust which 2 pages are displayed". The dual page view in Zathura will show 2 adjacent pages. When I've needed to do that I've just opened two Zathura windows. Especially with a tiling WM it's practically the same feature.