If you’re worried about the feds, you’ll want to turn on airplane mode and leave ot that way.

I use Mullvad.

Mine hurt at 25 thanks to the Army.

What OP is describing sounds like they got some sort of hardware blacklisted. Either they are using the app on the same phone, or Reddit has blacklisted the modem MAC.

Reddit links your account to the phone IMEI. The only way to get around it is to get a different phone.

You could poison it with junk info. Make it useless.

2005

Fedora Core 5

At some point in 2006, I switched to Ubuntu. Jumped to Debian after Canonical thought it would be cute to send our data to Jeff Bezos and show is ads.

Fuck Canonical.

Been on Debian ever since, except for 1 netbook that I keep using Kali - which I used in the Backtrack days.

Xandros?

Wait, are they still around?

There are sellouts and traitors.

At the moment, it doesn’t. He could decide to violate Swiss law and turn data over to Trump.

That would certainly affect your privacy.

Mullvad.

Proton has a Trump ass kisser working in their C-suite.

You’re right. That is odd.

I believe you can delete your phone number once you’re up and running, but yeah that seems like an anti-feature.

I was about to say that I’ve been using Debian for the better part of 20 years, and the accessibility support is pretty good.

You could put out fake data. It’s unlikely that you’ll be able to get your real data removed, so start giving fake info for stuff that doesn’t need know who you really are.

Restaurants who ask for my name, I give “Gordon R” or “Guy F” or something similar. Do that with your digital life.

I use a hardened Firefox as a daily driver. I have Mullvad set as my default, so any application that redirects to the web won’t see my actual browser. I also keep a webkit based browser around for niche applications and troubleshooting.

Yeah, I don’t know. Probably because people don’t immediately upgrade? A lot of people use a release until it goes EoL.

It defaults to the codename. Any installer you download will be either Bookworm or Sid right now.

Unless you change your sources.list, you’ll just update your current system.

I’d love to try out some of their products, but my government has banned them. So much for the land of the free.