I ended up switching away from using my Mac to using an iPad M5 + Magic Keyboard as my sole computing device for the security benefits, and it’s been working pretty well and in retrospect I don’t miss anything from macOS aside from a chromium-based browser. However I’ve said it before that switching back to using a Mac after using iPadOS for so long feels like a serious regression, for all it’s faults the iPad + iPadOS feels like a futuristic technology preview of macOS.

For development work I use GitHub Codespaces (and self-host Coder in the future hopefully). I was moving towards cloud/container-based development already and it works nicely. Plus NPM vulnerabilities are no longer a serious issue. Again the only thing I miss is Chromium, but I’ve altered front-end development planning to target Safari/Firefox since websites shouldn’t be implementing non-standard Chrome-exclusive features anyway imo (I’m saying this as someone who highly prefers chromium lol).

As far as cell service goes well yeah there is no such thing as anonymity. Towers will always know your location as long as the radio is on and that can be correlated easily.

I anticipate if you start getting public feature requests a native app will be at the top of the list.

The hardware and software security of Android/iOS/iPadOS/GOS devices are leagues ahead of Linux servers in all aspects and it’s not even close (but they also serve different purposes so to some extent I’m not sure how 1:1 this comparison is). However, this discussion focuses on desktop style Linux distros which is what these phones are running which have inadequate security. Desktop Linux is inferior security-wise to a server environment where each process/app is running as it’s own user etc. Desktop-style Linux phones also have virtually zero hardware security versus the alternatives.

It doesn’t matter if a user knows what they are doing. For example installing so-called “trusted” apps means they’re only trustworthy at that moment in time and not forward-looking. All it takes is one supply chain or runtime security exploit. Software security is also extremely poor with a lack of comprehensive sandboxing and so on, I would just read the grapheneos accounts replies on here since they’re writing entire novels on this.

I mean even GrapheneOS shows how relevant this is with Samuel Tunick, on the front page today. If he’d had a desktop Linux phone that was seized from him while in AFU, sure it would be “private” but there would be virtually nothing stopping officials from running through his entire phone since so many of these desktop Linux distros rely on poor security elements if any on top of FDE with LUKS so your entire device is basically exposed and unencrypted after the first unlock.

This whole comment was borderline stream of consciousness so I apologize if anything is unclear here.

Any chance you want to do a public service and publish the latest compatibility matrix?

Just joking, obviously…

Especially in this political climate it’s insane to recommend people switch to a phone OS that can be pwned via hardware or software means in virtually zero time versus something like GOS + a Pixel or an iPhone.

Long term in the future, surely the open source community forks AOSP itself and maintains it. The worst option would be giving up and trying to focus on Linux (desktop) imo.

https://support.logi.com/hc/change_language/en-in?return_to=...

I also have no issue with the API, people here are definitely overreacting to it’s existence.

To be fair though your emails are E2EE at rest in your inbox, so in the event of seizure or a subpoena they can’t hand over anything usable aside from metadata unlike fastmail who will hand everything over.

However of the three I trust AdGuard the least, for no objective reasons.

In practice to me these are non-issues. With MV2 uBO you basically already grant it maximum permissions since it’s all or nothing with MV2. So giving full permissions with MV3 uBOL is no different. Which eliminates the cosmetic filtering and script injection limitations.

The rule limit can maybe be an issue, but I’ve never run into it unless I literally go hog wild and overboard on filter lists.

“Limited dynamic filtering capabilities” is more abstract to me at least and I can’t say what’s missing here.

In practice though ultimately I notice no difference between Lite and the original.