Hey eelectricshock

I know what you mean

It does make me wonder about Airstrip One, the government, palantir and GCHQ.

Do we really believe that they stopped all that invasive surveillance after Edward Snowden.

I doubt it very much. They just renamed the programs, got microsoft, google and meta and the rest of the sycophants to run them, hidden behind private enterprise out of public sight, instead of Homeland and the CIA.

Hey Droechai

How about trying Sparklinux

They have stable, oldstable and oldoldstable images.

based on debian.

I use sparky on both my raspberry pi 3B’s.

Sparky 7 still supports i686 architecture (32 bit).

ISO MinimalGUI i686 (32 bit)

https://sparkylinux.org/iso-minimalgui-i686/

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sparky

Im an old therapist and I always recommend the power of silence.

I’m not nice to my co-workers. I am courteous, professional and set boundaries.

If someone asks me a private question about my life, family, children or anything I consider personal. I just remain silent.

Silence is simple. It take no brain power, whereas trying to think of ways to deflect questions will be stressful.

It is not written in stone that I have to answer questions. Silence is a powerful tool.

I never get into justifying to anyone why I do not want to share my personal stuff. Its personal for a reason.

I am a right muppet. I recommended e/OS a few days ago.

heres me old 12 year old Samsung S4.

Its got the e/OS, recovery-e-2.2-r-20240719418592-dev-jfltexx running with android 11

Those were that days. 16gb with 2gb ram, a fucking powerhouse, and more importantly, no fucking ai shit

I should say its my kitchen timer.

No more udates.

Working like a charm, battery last a week.

looks like I wont be using anymore of e/OS roms.

Half my family have e/OS installed.

I will be busy removing e/OS, and that ai shit with it, over the next few days.

The question: How do I live the rest of my life?

You must ask yourself, how did I manage to get to where I am today.

Reading your post, you say you have not been diagnosed.

The spectrum today, in comparson to 20 years ago has expanded exponentially from the original.

Personally, I think an introvert could get a diagnosis.

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You are a human being, you are not a Label or a position on a spectrum.

There is no perfect human being, we are all different, not one of us is a diagnoses. That is why we are given names at birth.

I dont know anyone called, adhd, autistic, psychotic or depressed.

Diagnoses are what the medical profession likes to use to label us and put us in little boxes.

The rest of the world see each one of us as some random human walking down the street.

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During my psychotherapy undergraduate years at University, my peers and I did an experiment.

The experiment was to challenge the status quo, and assess how easy it was to get a diagnoses and get a prescription.

So being your typical, annoying under grads, a few of us. including me, went to our respective doctors and complained about; feeling down, unable to sleep, not eating very well, and extremely stressed because of the work load at university.

My GP referred me to see a psychiatrist at my local hospital. I was diagnosed with clinical depression and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) with a likelihood of a personality disorder.

He prescribed me the anti-depressant Mirtazapine and pregabalin for the anxiety.

Obviously, I was healthy 30 year old and didn’t go the the chemist to get my prescription. I also told my doctor so he could remove any referrences to mental ill health added to my medical history.

We knew it was a stupid thing to do, but it did give us lots to think about, regarding the state of attaining a medical diagnoses, being prescribed unnecessary drugs and being given labels.

By the way, psychotherapists dont label people.

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The cypherpunk manifesto, 9th March 1993

32 years ago we faced the same nightmare. I was 37 years old back then.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any.

We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place.

People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers.

The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.

Privacy is not secrecy.

A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know.

Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html

Hey Zerush

Safety first

that sounds like hell to me.

If that ever happened, I for certain would stop using the internet, cancel my broadband subscription, buy a dumb phone and act like a dim wit, who hasnt got a clue.

You forgot about a compulsory little placard proclaiming the wonders of our political leader.

Something like;

I love The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP.

Now that is a muppet if I ever saw one.

It could be a trumpian version of course for USA residenst.

I love Big Don

your a star ScoffingLizard

keep at it

Thank you cravl

Much appreciated

He probbaly didn’t realise the committment involved.

Sitting in someones front garden, on the edge of a pond with a red pointy hat, with a fishing rod, for days on end, can be very tiring.

Then you got the cats pissing on you and the birds landing on your head.

Its no fun, I can tell you.

Its tough being a gnome

We could send in the passports of our entire family by post.

With the names and adresses of our children’s school’s and school teachers.

you could then contact the teachers directly to confirm that the children are of age.

Then, Go online and spread the “we have nothing to hide”, “we must protect our children” mantra.

yep! thats sounds about right, for a one eyed, single celled mollusc, living under a nuclear radiated rock.

LOL!

To the legislators of Mississippi.

one of my favourite songs: Tough shit wilson by Splodgenessabounds. great band

Tough shit was born in Mississippi (orignially Tennessee*) He was deaf and dumb, he measured 4 foot 3 He had one arm, one leg, no teeth, and one plum He married a girl in 62, she was a 60 year old leper, called Mary Lou But she died of cancer on her anniversary

[Chorus:] They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson Toughshit, thoughshit was his name Toughshit was left with a baby son, who died on leukemia, at the age of one And toughshit was left with his guide doggy called roach Till one day crossing with his dog on a wee doach But roach didn’t see the coach approach And the wheels rolled gently over toughshits head

I think a doach is a railway track, but Im not sure, its scottish. Who the fuck can understand those bastards.

[Chorus:] They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson And toughshit was his name They call him toughshit And toughshit was his claim to fame At tough shits funeral, no one came The vicar was late and it poured with rain They dropped the coffin down a flight of stairs But let us not forget toughshits pain And perhaps he never died in vein but when it comes to that Who fucking cares, not me I don’t See upcoming rock shows Get tickets for your favorite artists

I must say you guys in the USA do have a hard time with your shit carriers.

I would never root any phone, there really is no need. I have bricked many rooted phones and it is totally unsafe and insecure. I think its the equivalent of using windows XP.

Here is a guide; It might give you an idea. Its quite a simple process to follow.

https://droidwin.com/unlock-bootloader-and-root-samsung-galaxy-s25-plus-ultra/

the “Unlock Bootloader on Samsung Galaxy S25/Plus/Ultra” section.

I feel for you.

training ai on your photo’s without even asking. wankers

I have just copied my elderly friends 2000 photos from google photos to my desktop, then deleted all of them from her phone. Had to do it with my browser, they only allow you to delete 30 photos at a time on the phone. tossers.

Installed droid-ify, installed lawnchair, fossify gallery, fossify messages, fossify contacts. perfect.

imported her photos back on to her phone:

Intentionally painful but its done.

bring on ADB, I have deleted everything with a G in it.

first one: I wrote a simple little bash script for these:

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.chrome

okgoogle, xgoogle, Gmail, calender, Calendar Sync, videos, googlequicksearchbox, youtube, music, Google Contacts Sync, googleassistant, Google Digital Well Being App, Google Duo, Google Pay, google photos and Google Drive with adb so its doesnt happen again.

This poor women is 84, WTF does she know about modern tech, google are tossers

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I would get rid of fairphone rom and install another rom:

unlock your bootloader. easy guide from Fairphone.

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/10492476238865-How-to-unlock-and-re-lock-the-bootloader

then install lineage or E/os custom rom

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/FP5/

https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP5

Hey ScoffingLizard

I am always the sceptic, but I have read that the monocles browser uses the monocles webview.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.monocles.browser/

It says here: In the defaults, the monocles browser uses the monocles webview

here it is more in depth:

basically they are saying that unless you are using an up to date custom rom, currently android 15 on my lineage phone, there maybe security issues with webview

https://docs.monocles.eu/apps/browser.app/

Limitations and Known Issues#

Security Issues#

As monocles Browser is based upon the WebView component, it is dependant of the underlying Android ROM and it’s updates.#

We thus recommend to use the latest available Version of Android for your device and - if necessary - upgrade to an aftermarket ROM like:

DivestOS

/e/

LineageOS

If a device has no modern firmware updates anymore and Aftermarket - Firmware is just not available, then please consider a different Browser like Fennec, which is privacy-enhanced version of Firefox for Android nee Firefox Mobile or Tor Browser which you can also get via F-Droid by adding or enabling the Guardian Project repository.

hey Sem

I had not seen that.

Oddly my “Allow installation of add-ons” is unselected and set to blank.

Why can’t I install add-ons/extensions?

By default, due to privacy and security concerns, IronFox disables the installation of add-ons. This has no impact on already installed extensions, and updates to those extensions.

To allow the installation of add-ons, at the cost of security, you can navigate to Settings -> IronFox -> IronFox settings -> Security, and select the option to Allow installation of add-ons. It is recommended to disable this option when you are done installing your desired extension(s).

I wonder if it is to do with the repo:

I know it took ages to be released to f-droid and droid-ify and was only available from the git repo.

I installed the repo from here

to add the repo to f-droid or f-droid basic

https://fdroid.ironfoxoss.org/fdroid/repo/index.html

click on the QR code to enlarge

I hope you sort it out

Hi sem

I open Ironfox

press the top right burger menu

press the extensions.

you will be redirected to the Mozilla add-ons site.

you can search for add-ons from there.

check to see if another browser is able to access mozilla add-ons

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/

If it still fails, I would check your settings.

here are mine:

HTTPS_Only mode on in all tabs

DNS over HTTPS off

this is off because my VPN manages my DNS

enhanced tracking protection strict

If you have a VPN installed

Maybe that might be locked down, blocking the internet, preventing you from accessing the internet

I would also disable U-block just to see if it works disabled

My bank alone has closed 99 of its high street branches this year.

I used to do a 2 minute walk to my local bank, then they started closing them further and further afield, until I now have to drive 20 minutes to my bank.

I am predominantly a cash man.

I dont buy anything online from any of the big names like Amazon etc. I search around until I find what I want in a store that I can drive to.

To be honest I would rather spend an hour driving to a store, and pay the extra money on petrol, than pay poxy rip off delivery charges and waste my valuable time waiting in for the wankers.

I also avoid all banking apps like the plague, in fact all apps that are recommended by any store staff. not that I can install them on lineage phone anyway.

I can only login into my online bank via VPN if I am using French server. I dont know how long that will last. I refuse to allow my ISP access to my online habits.

I am gutted that the UK government closed down all our bitcoin ATM’s. This was the first warning sign something was going to change. Take away our freedoms yet again

At least when bitcoin was cheaper a few years ago, I could spend some money out of my state pension, buy £20 worth and save for the future.

I would be a zillionaire by now Rodney! LOL

But this ultimately leads us into the government crypto currency (Central bank digital currency) when we will all be fucked, because they will control everything.

I recently changed my gas and electricy supplier because they would not let me pay online while I had my VPN on, even if I was using a UK based server. wankers, didnt want my money, so I dumped them. My new provider is better and I can pay anywhere in the world.

All they want is everyone to have a fucking smart meter installed, so they can rip us off and charge extra for using gas and electricity in the early evening peak period, when we are cooking for our families, and bathing our children. Wankers!

FOSS browser, FREE browser, Privacy browser and monocles browser are all pretty similar to me.

For basic browsing I am sure they are all OK.

monocles browser will switch to a custom WebView called Privacy Webview.

https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser-android/core-privacy-principles/

I use the monocles browser (rebranding of Privacy browser) for quick searches with javascript and cookies turned off as default.

For instance, if I am searching git for something and I see what I want, I enable javascript with the button, to see the latest releases and download sections.

I like the turn on javascript button. and the selection of EasyList , easy privacy, fanboys annoyances list, Ultra list and Ultra privacy list for adblocking and tracking.

From what I remember they all have the Delete browser data on exit. Monocles Browser makes it easier to “clear and exit” for me.

To clear, history, cookies etc. The “CLEAR AND EXIT” button is at the top of the left side drop down menu, so it is easier to find. unlike the others where it is at the bottom of the drop down menu.

I suppose its all about choice and personal preference.

https://codeberg.org/monocles/monocles_browser

Hey utopiah

It does seem pointless to me that people get hung up on browser loading speeds.

Its like that old Bruce lee quote from Enter the Dragon:

Don’t Concentrate On The Finger Or You Will Miss All That Heavenly Glory.