@BarrierWithAshes Just use Firefox. There's plenty of stuff that can be achieved just through add-ons and switching various settings in about:config. Only thing that's missing is an integrated free VPN, but I guess there are better alternatives anyway if you want more privacy online.
@dan They did try to bring back some stuff in the later years, like an integrated RSS feed reader. But Firefox is just way better than anything else overall. Including the fact that it comes from an organization that puts privacy further up in the list of priorities.
flashing a custom ROM that was intended for a particular device into another, is a guaranteed way of breaking that device.
I wasn't talking about that at all. I just refered specifically about unlocking the bootloader. I know you have to find a specific ROM for every specific device.
So weird I cannot find one though. I bought the G22 because it just seemed the most affordable alternative to a Fairphone (i.e. you can change the battery and the screen if something happens, or the fingerprint sensor/lock button etc.).
On XDA there is not even a section for it.
Also Nokia is owned by Microsoft
No, they're not any longer. Since a few years already. They gave up their rights to the brand after their phone projects flopped.
@electro1 Not sure if it's still the same thing, but you can toggle the OEM Unlock option for Nokia G22 in the Developer Options menu, in the settings.
@JohnDumpling oh, I see. I thought only my city was not supported. OsmAnd does have on the ground transit routes though. And there's also Transportr and Offi, but they do not support all the cities (and clearly not bike paths).
@0x815 oh, wow. Yea, their stories just seem unbelievable. And also the way some people crossed the border to reach the "free world" seems unbelievable. For example, a band managed to cross the border inside Marshall speakers. Others tried to cross the Danube into Yugoslavia (which was more liberal at the time) and got shot by the Romanian border patrols. It was pretty much hell on Earth.
each of these stories is a reason to avoid mass surveillance imo.
Absolutely. Every time I hear about governments snooping inside personal communication I think of how phones were tapped and letters were read for every known or possible dissidents back then. And when an extremist party seems to be on the verge of taking power (and we do have extremist parties as well in Romania) I just think that measures like these would be the first they would implement, along with reducing democratic rights.
@Fizz true. My PC came with 4 GB originally. It was a pain once I opened the browser or Discord (which I usually do). Upgraded to 12 and no longer have any issue, at least on the current distro.
@TheBaldness it's an ActivityPub alternative to Facebook, kinda. Just like Lemmy is for Reddit or Mastodon is for Twitter.
You do have more privacy options, though, like, you can create a post and only allow visibility from a person or a group of people (let's say people that follow you but you also follow back, lists of people etc.)
There are other alternatives using different protocols, such as Diaspora (where the ownership is different, as in, if you create a post, all the comments below it belong to you as well, I don't know how this works), or Hubzilla which uses AP to communicate with other networks, but uses a protocol called Zot internally.
@Rozauhtuno It's wonderful to see all these initiatives to resurrect the old web all springing around. It really gives you a glimpse in the past, shows you what we gained, what we've lost...
@underwire212 imagine that you can tune in on Spotify, YouTube or wherever you want and listen to whatever you want. Imagine that you can legally buy whatever newspaper from the local shop, or go to whatever internet website and legally read whatever news you might find there, whether it is a government website, a conspiracy website, a satirical website or whatever. Legally. That's what democracy makes it special. This is what freedom is all about.
Here in Romania, during communism, if you were caught listening to Radio Free Europe, you would be prosecuted immediately. If you listened to AC/DC, Beatles, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols, Led Zeppelin or other iconic Rock bands back in the day, you would be labeled as a potential risk for the society, possibly extremist, and followed 24/7 by the secret police. You could have a police record with this, all with this nonsense like what were you wearing, where were you going, what you were doing etc., and it would weigh down hard on your career. Your phones could be tapped, your mail could be tampered, especially if you sent it outside. The secret police was so well infiltrated in the society that anyone could report you. Anyone could be a collaborator, and you wouldn't be aware of it. Imagine you throw a party, and you make some random jokes about the regime, or that you all listen to one of these bands. In your group of friends, it was enough for just one of them to be a collaborator. You can imagine that all of you might be fucked, the next day if you're lucky enough, on the spot if not.
There were cases of spouses reporting to the secret police, parents, children, relatives of all sorts. Teachers could be collaborators as well. Priests were known to be collaborators of the secret police, as people would go to confess their sins, and then in turn, they would confess these sins of them to (you guessed it) the secret police. You just couldn't trust anybody.
It's just mind-boggling how the secret police (in Romania even aptly named Securitate meaning Security) could follow you for basically nothing. And probably the teens in the article in the OP were in a similar situation.
@TheBaldness I just have it because I've used it for so long and not everyone is on other platforms. Or if they are, they're still Meta owned anyway. But since I've been on the Fediverse, I found myself using it less and less.
@TheBaldness whatever service is degrading for me and have an alternative to is a service that I have an incentive to stop using. Friendica is so much better than Facebook. I never expected I would use it the way I use it today.
@Gaywallet I think it all comes down to personal values. For example, I just cannot see myself having an account on Lemmy because the creators are apologists for a terrible, criminal regime, that is responsible for the death of thousands of people in my country and for affecting the lives of many in a negative way.
I participate in Lemmy communities like here on Beehaw with my Friendica account, but that's it.
If someone would be an apologist for Russia, again, I would likely not use their product. And if I would know that their product is reflecting their worldview in any way, would not be vital and would have an alternative from a creator whose moral views align more to mine, I would switch away as well.
As for the media some producer makes (e.g. music, video), I think it depends on what the message these creations send. The creator's views I think matter less unless it's reflected in their creation.
Edit/on a side note: As an unpopular opinion, I think the cancel culture does exist, but not to the extent the far right likes to tout. Sometimes people are just being enraged for the most mundane stuff and this creates a lot of unnecessary drama and makes everyone fail to see the forest by the trees. If people would more emphasize the fact that they do not like a certain service because it doesn't align their values, then it would sound way more different.
I'm probably subjective on this too though, things might be different and I might be wrong. But that's how I see things.
@ijeff yayyy, more Material You it's always better 😁