a solid guide covers everything but one critical part… getting the phone number anonymously :/

Your keyboard is doing you dirty my friend… :)

Signal is packaged by many people now, you can add a third party repo and you’re good to go… If you’re on GOS you can use Signal FOSS which is the debloated version of Signal

watching Wojak raging while rolling around in a wheelchair

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X_FpCgpjck

CryFS didn’t pass through any security audits, but people say it’s better because it hides the metadata, for my threat model, I think CryFS is enough…

Last time I copied the encrypted directory to an external drive it took a solid 5 hours, the directory size is 25Gb but on disk it becomes …idk I would say 170GB or more… 😭, so I’m assuming you mean I should try to mount it using the CLi then moving everything out ( which won’t take long )

This bug report shows a solution but I don’t understand it ?

the problem is that they keep changing stuff… gosh… And just for YouTube, YouTube music works fine on my client that hasn’t been updated for months now

You shouldn’t be messing around in the Sensors list, that functionality isn’t exposed to the user on stock Android or other Roms, it’s just there to give extra control over apps that don’t need the Sensors

Is this malware? Is this virus? Is this safe or how do I remove them?

I’m assuming you toggled “view system apps”, think of them as services that you phone needs to do various tasks, so disabling them or trying to remove them might damage or brick your system, GOS is debloated already, I don’t know what you’re trying to achieve ?

I don’t use apps that require sensor permissions and for other apps, if I find they don’t require fingerprint lock as in they don’t have that functionality at all, I remove that permission

Edit: also, GOS devs are very active on Mastodon and on their forum, consider asking them there

most users would have the feature anyway.

PureOS users won’t… unless they pay, ( funny how that works 😆 ) but sure you can find it in other distros for free…

But for now I’m not seeing any feature offerings, just the fact that it’ll help support the development…

if we assume that everyone knows how to compile from source, or use Github then yeah it doesn’t make sense

I’m all in for paying to fund development but if they wanna make this work, they need to make some “nice to have features” for the premium version, paying monthly for an OS is pretty unconventional

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