I switched to outlook in browser only because their native windows software is so terrible. Wish I could leave that shit OS entirely.

As good as it gets, if you can’t get around using Windows.

Unfortunately that requires a full reinstall, I wish there was a way to upgrade from 10 pro to 10 enterprise.

And that’s exactly why I read German news only, they are paid with tax money and there’s a governing body in place that ensures objectivity.

Of course there are private magazines and stuff, but as long as you stay clear of them, you’re by and large good to go.

There are other tools, but their developers aren’t publicly known. So I indeed trust into the one man show that is magisk, at least as a full time Google employee who gets his codebase reviewed in-house, there’s some more trust than to a random nobody. And he does publish the code and allows for user contributed fixes on github.

That’s only available for Pixel phones, and I don’t buy from Google.

No, I exactly mean rooting, and it is a hard requirement for me when choosing phones.

If you know what you’re doing, there is no security risk involved, since every app requesting for root access needs to be granted individually, and you can opt to do so for a limited time or permanently. Or not grant it at all, obviously.

Tools like AppOps (advanced permission management), Storage Isolation (prevent access to certain folders even if “file access” permission is granted to some app), Ice Box (keep certain apps in a permanent state of hibernation unless you explicitly launch them) are absolute core essentials.

Other apps that enable you to fully remove system apps, system level adblockers, VPN sharing etc. might be optional, and there are no-root workarounds, but they all come with serious limitations.

And people wonder why I keep rooting my Android phones.

Without advanced permission denial and file access restrictions, phones will spy on anything and anyone.

They aren’t useless at all, just not in the sense you expect. Those icons are hosted on the respective website and therefore serve as a giant tracking pixel. Better block them altogether.

You could use LibreWolf on Linux, it’s a Firefox fork that removes all DRM, telemetry and other privacy-disrespecting crap from the og Firefox. All native addons/plugins are fully supported.

Got the occasional mouse, but I usually only notice after my cats got to them first.

Or they hunt them outside and bring the corpse back, really couldn’t tell.

It’s also quite awkward requiring others to spell the country with letters that don’t exist in most alphabets, and therefore not on commonly used keyboards.

Sure you can make use of ü and others with some international layouts, but for laypeople it’s rather cumbersome.

Imagine China would suddenly require everyone spelling it as 中国， nobody would even be able pronounce it, let alone write.

There is no c in Frikadelle.

Fennec, you can log in with your Mozilla sync account and access them from any other sync-enabled browser in their ecosystem.

Yeah old Firefox was the best. With a bookmark menu on the left where I could scroll forever and see it at a glance.

Those top bars are awful shit, and I cannot fathom how anybody uses them.

Sounds like Europe. Maybe a bit more extreme since property crimes and financial crimes exceeding a certain monetary amount will get you jailed, but “casual” offenders will get exactly that.

And no death penalty, that’s just barbaric to begin with.

I mean, do the maths. A high res picture is 8-15 MB in size, and a 4k video has 60 fps (frames per second). Let’s take 12 MB as average picture size, that gives you 12MB x 60 frames x 60 seconds = 43.2 GB/min. With some advanced compression algorithms you can maybe get the individual frame size down to half, but that’s really it.

Chameleon add-on for Firefox, randomly rotates your browser, OS, screen size, timezone, device type, language, and other customizable parameters every x minutes.

I’ve set it to do so every 5 minutes, and to omit desktop & tablet as device types (else some websites display the respective page) and timezones (messed up 2FA).

I also disabled blackberry and windows phone from the manufacturer ID, that would have the opposite effect from obscuring me.

For the rest of it, it’s working great.

Swype enabled keyboards are awesome though. I loved my BB, but the screen real estate that a digital keyboard clears up is quite significant.

Chat is only available in the official client, the implementation is closed source. So yeah most likely that.