OP was talking about Lineage, not Graphene.

If an app doesn’t have data it cannot share it.

If you don’t install the app, it cannot breach your privacy.

You don’t need direct internet access to leak information, for example, an app with access to your calendar has indirect internet access.

Plex has been around for a while, long before “capitalism happened” as you put it. At the time it spawned a whole lot of different alternatives, it also triggered how we interact with our media libraries. I recall having to set-up my own server and client before I could start to import and manage my own media. That wasn’t trivial, least of which caused by needing to rip DVD without the high speed access to internet acting as a source.

Keep your existing phone and OS.

Use it differently. Decide what information you store on it, which applications you install or disable, what permissions you grant and what services you use.

Just installing an OS to “debloat and degoogle” is not ever going to change anything unless you change your habits and you don’t need to change OS to do that.

You already know the answer to this question.

Well that deteriorated quickly from oops to premeditated environmental vandalism.

I’m guessing that at one point the water was frozen.

The Hollywood hacking depictions are equivalent to seeing syringes being used on film. To the uninitiated it looks “real”, the reality is somewhat different.

Source: I’ve been an ICT professional for 40+ years and have had hundreds of (medical) needles poked in me over much of my life.

Privacy breaches come in many guises … this is one of them.

Yeah … that thought occurred to me as well.

I wonder if there’s a way that you can legally monetize the process, so the organisation who left a gaping hole … or several bazillion in this case … gets an education in corporate security and the researcher gets paid for their efforts. A corporate symbiosis if you like.

If course the non legal way is extortion … but that tends to go towards warfare and mutually assured destruction, rather than collaboration.

Perhaps this opens the door to a white hat penetration testing department at the corporate regulator who issues fines (which pay for the work) … but I’m not seeing any evidence of an appetite for anything even remotely resembling such a set-up anywhere on Earth.

Espionage on the other hand …

Censorship by stealth.

… because that’s what it amounts to.

Platforms will start making their content “acceptable” to the “general consensus” (ie. right wing bible bashing hetero caucasians) in order to allow general access to content.

“Unsuitable” material, like sex education, domestic violence advice, sexual orientation and religious freedom will “vanish” from the internet, just like it already is across the platforms run by USA billionaires.

Those who fail to comply will be taken to court and those too small to fight will close down their internet presence.

The credit card companies are already doing this for anyone who sells anything they don’t like.

This current wave is just more of it.

It has absolutely nothing to do with keeping children safe, and everything to do with control.

It’s an interesting question, and I suspect that the differentiation is the same as it is for every other word where this happens, context.

In other words, language has many examples of words that are only differentiated in meaning by their context.

Bank, Drive, Company, Walk, Wind are all homonyms.

This is also how you can flow surface mount solder paste …

Yes

For those wondering in amazement, this is a perfect example of why the current crop of Assumed Intelligence is not intelligent in any way.

This is an obvious example of incorrect information confidentially presented. Though funny and disturbing, this is not an isolated example. It does this when you know about the topic and you notice, but it also does it when you don’t.

Seems like prima facie evidence evidence to me that Intel is about to go bankrupt. It reminds me of the “Intel Inside” warning labels of the 1990’s … seems like a good idea, until you realise that it’s sinister and counterproductive.

Seems that someone needs to re-watch Minority Report.

The study:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/691462

What is an Ubuntu LTS release?

An Ubuntu LTS is a commitment from Canonical to support and maintain a version of Ubuntu for ten years, with the initial five years available for free following Ubuntu’s mission. In April, every two years, we release a new LTS where all of the developments from the previous two years accumulate into one up-to-date, feature-rich release. These releases focus on performance enhancement and stability. The LTS is what we recommend to large scale enterprises, general users and businesses. However, for more dynamic users, every six months throughout those two years there are also developer releases. These releases are kept up-to-date and relevant, with the latest and greatest contributions, but are only supported for nine months at a time.

Source: https://ubuntu.com/blog/what-is-an-ubuntu-lts-release

The reason you pick an LTS release is so you get Long Term Support.

Use the support.

By moving to a non-LTS, you not only reduce the duration you get support, you also increase the frequency of doing updates. This is not desirable while you’re learning.

Or you can inject a bot:

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/hiding-and-finding-text-with-unicode-tags/