Counterpoint - the only reason I didn't degoogle earlier was because my phone simply didn't support Lineage or Divest. Chances are that whatever budget Chinaphone you have would be in the same situation. Now I bought a Pixel specifically with the intent of installing a privacy-preserving OS, but for a while most I could do was ADB-disabling Google services.

Unlike installing Linux, chances are high that a degoogled OS wouldn't work on the hardware you already have.

I don't think cellular location would be excluded from such tracking tbh. I would rather not take my phone with me at all when visiting such a potentially sensitive place, or at the very least use a Faraday cage.

"Rabbit hole"? Isn't it as easy as just not going to a carrier's store for it?

We always bought from generic tech stores, almost always big chain ones - never got a carrier-locked device. Is it different in the US?

At least until the official client allows registration from desktop without VM shenanigans, and allows an arbitrary SOCKS proxy instead of just their own, and doesn't depend on Google services on mobile, there NEED to be third-party clients like signal-cli or Molly.

I don't think they're a honeypot, but they do seem like posers. Privacy is just good for marketing now.

That is exactly what I said though - passkeys are software. They're not confined to hardware modules, so there's no such thing as "device being a passkey".

From what I understand, "passkey" refers to software, so no such thing as "device being a passkey". Unlike a hardware key.

In case the device gets lost/stolen, you should have a backup of the database that contained the passkeys. That's why I would be only using the implementations that allow doing that easily.

What are you talking about? KeepassXC, to my knowledge, is not dependent on any TPM, snd it does support passkeys.

No, but this is very unlikely because I do keep regular backups manually. I just don't feel the need for it to be a constantly-online server.

TBH I don't see a reason why something as simple as a password manager needs a server, selfhosted or not. I don't get the obsession with syncing everything, so would rather stick with normal KeepassXC.

I recently got a 7a for $300, quite expensive for me but imo worth it. Maybe 8a, after the release of 9/9a, would also fall into a similar price, with 7a getting to $200 eventually.

Yes, absolutely. Having to use a dongle for my earbuds sucks :( SD is something I don't really notice tho because 128 gigs is pretty much bottomless for a phone.

And from what I've seen, Pixels are probably the friendliest to other custom OSes as well.

I don't feel anything abut nudity being posted somewhere and people enjoying it... I just don't want to see it myself because it's disgusting for me)

Prosody is very easy to set up. Snikket is just Prosody with things added on.

Now if only you could hide the pornographic stuff to not accidentally see disgusting nudity.

I would not be surprised if a large chunk of population can evade bans, so no surprise.

I don't think it's great to change one walled garden for another. If you are willing to change, better switch to a protocol instead. Even if there's something wrong with the server, witching between different instances is much easier than between entirely different products.

On one hand, it's cool that you have an excuse to ditch Discord. The platform sucks in several different ways and the more people leave it, the better off the world is.

But on the other - you seem to be aiming for the wrong goal. I know what it's like to have one thing blocked after the other, so I know for sure that migrating every time something gets blocked is just not a sustainable long-term strategy. You might replace Discord for unrelated reasons... But I strongly advise you to look into censorship circumvention methods. Especially stealthy ones, like they use in China. Set it up for your family and friends (maybe distributing the server costs between them). You will need it.