"Dissent is the cornerstone of Democracy. Censorship is the cornerstone of tyranny."

@Jeffrey_Peterson

Apparently Neil sold the rights to over 50% of his catalogue some time ago and doesn't even have the ability to make this demand. Spotify has been caught removing over 40 episodes of Joe Rogan since the demand. Ask, what is really going on? What are you hearing vs. what decisions are being made?

Rob Braxman de-googs phones and loads them with Lineage 18.1 with “No-GAPPS” I am not sure what no-gapps means except for maybe no goog apps.

GAPPs is the app package that typically comes pre-installed. Gmail, Contacts, messenger, dialer, calendar, chrome, YouTube, drive, maps... Probably a few others. Roughly 12mb of metadata is sent to the Google servers every day unbeknownst to the user. At a minimum this can be location, IP address, carrier cell signal strength and location, time and duration of use, orientation of the phone. Of course you agreed to it when to signed the usage agreement for the free use of their services and servers.

If only we could de-apple the iphone.

People's lack of knowledge or understanding set up a scenario to easily herd the sheep toward the chamber, tracking their every step along the way. Thanks to Jeff pro exposing Foss to me, I have moved right from the path intended

More reasons you need to change your technologies: https://www.makeuseof.com/messaging-app-metadata-fbi/

Is antivirus software required with mint? If so can you recomend?

It looks like Google is done providing security updates to the Pixel 3. Should owners be concerned with security issues on ROMs like Lineage, /e/, Calyx or Graphene OS?

They do not want decentralized cash because then central banks who currently control our country have less control over us and less ways to track us.

The unconstitutional Fed wants their own digital dollar to be implemented.

That is my guess.

I just installed Calyx on a pixel 3, it was pretty easy.

I went with a Pixel 3 second-hand and it has been great so far with Lineage. I think I'll keep my eyes open for a good deal on a 5a in the next few months

so ... I convinced a friend to try Linux but I had to load their computer with the option to go either Windows or Linux (Ubuntu) ... long story short, I was only there physically the beginning of January ... the computer had an issue finding the keyboard ... they searched the forums and fixed it !!! ... BOOM ... CONVERTS ! 😃

Couldn't find another place to ask my question. I hope this is ok. I own an Amazon Fire phone. I haven't had service for it for years. I only use it as an MP3 player. I'd love to clear out all the garbage and make it exclusively an MP3 player, hoping the battery would last longer and maybe be able to add more songs. Can I learn how to do that here?

I used an old windows 7 laptop that wasn't good for anything since it didn't have enough ump to be upgraded and now it's up and running again.

When I did my pure Arch system I put Brave in as the default. Will probably setup Librewolf to see how it runs. You can change a browser pretty much like socks that's the best part about Linux.

Did the same…. Converted an Old HP G70, dual core Pentium II, running Win Vista. The laptop was acting as decrepit as the Resident Houseplant. Loaded Linux Mint a week ago and have been sporadically reading your forum to expand applications and security. I’m sold! MS is gone! I have 4 more laptops that I will convert in the coming weeks and then begin investigations to get away from Apple. Have even convinced grown children to give it a try. Boom!

Installed Linux Mint on a Crucial P2 500GB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD meant as and upgrade for my HP Envy but decided to use with a external USB Shockproof TPU Case so I can boot up on any device as an external drive until I'm ready to remove Windows 10 completely which won't be much longer since I haven't used Windows since creating new drive! Also just finished setting up my Linode VPS with my own OpenVPN which is up and running! Thank you Jeff and all contributers

Hey MacBookPro owners, what distro are you running and why? Also for those with multiple machines, are they all the same distro or is each one different. Is anyone using a virtual machine as a daily driver?