While there is no way to completely protect your email I am big believer in minimizing vulnerability. It’s somewhat nice to know your email provider at least isn’t reading your direct emails. Most of my correspondence comes from auto reply emails. It’s the same I recommend to people still on Windows or MacOS. Use apps with no telemetry as much as possible. That to me would include email.

I don’t trust anything that goes online

They have CIA they have espionage they have all sorts of things. They don’t have full state owned media. They don’t get by default access to your data. Companies can and have refused.

To say China and the US are the same for their citizens is just stupid …

Fair enough , done a little digging. Some things definitely make me question some things

I have nothing against Chinese people. I have the same fear of Russian owned products. I have the same concern with US companies with seedy backgrounds. It’s purely an issue of government/ agency not the color of the skin.

And I’m sorry to say “china doesn’t give a shit about you” I don’t buy that. I’ve heard of some borderline ridiculous stuff governments do on citizens of foreign countries. The US included.

I got my answer in an albeit odd way. Yes they track. So I’ll keep avoiding.

And this where I as a trolling CIS male might be able to do some good

I bounce back and forth from Darkstar to Warp. My area is terrible for T-Mobile in general. So that’s good to know !

This is great news. I can get physical sims. Now I just need to pick a pixel phone. Thanks everyone !

Amen! 🙏

It’s a shame really. It’s sounds like it’s been in development for a really long time. But I imagine it’s mostly volunteers at this time . Patience is virtue

Mike Flynn is an advisor for them. A spy for Russia. I can’t say this gives me warm and fuzzies

Now you see my point 🥸

Irregular ? Like my bowel movements ?

Yes!

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I hope a phone call matters I hope speaking up matters. But to me unless the phone call comes with money I’m not sure how much these representatives cares.

Not saying it’s better to do and say nothing. I just wonder if these greedy pricks really are listening. And yes they are almost all greedy pricks…

I apologize for the out of the blue response but I finally had sometime to do some digging into this. From what I read the debloat scripts at best remove surface level programs and features. Something’s Microsoft locks at the UI level. AtlasOS and others that the use the Ansible playbook removes some more kernal level processes. Now that being said there are some programs that debloat will remove like Windows store that the base level playbook will not.

That being said if you want to retain windows your best bet is try to use both AtlasOS (playbook) and a debloat to get rid of anything and everything you can.

I’ve now used both and it’s much better than it was …

It feels misleading doesn’t it ? Like they are trying to pretend like Mastodon doesn’t exist ? I believe Pixelfed is Canadian ? So to services that are not US based ! And very Ad Free !

I hate brave and the people who make it

True but Firefox is open source and they dump a ton of ai garbage in their stuff now. And while it being open source has allowed for Librewolf it’s not in itself a magic bullet

Apparently it’s in alpha ? I’d like to try it though !