Instances can be created freely, and are free to both associate and disassociate with other instances as they please.

Each instance decides their comfort with content within their instance and outside it. There are left leaning instances, centrist ones, and I’m sure a few right leaning ones. Some are ban-happy, but many will allow you to post all sorts of content, as long as it’s not too outlandish.

If the content you wish to see/post is wildly outside the overton window, you can join an instance that allows this or create your own. But other instances are under no obligation to federate with content they don’t wish to see.

Android:

• Cake Wallet - crypto assets
• CoMaps - navigation
• Cryptomator - encrypted files
• LibreraFD - ebook reader
• Retro music - local music player
• SimpleX - chat
• Syncthing - sync between my phone and computers

This is great news!

For those unaware, Google is continuously enacting policies that are closing down the open environment of Android, and I fear this will significantly harm projects like GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, and others.

If you can spare a couple dollars, please consider throwing some money at PostmarketOS or any other mobile Linux project you like.

I am a huge fan of SimpleX and their removal of user IDs. I think it’s a brilliant solution, and wish that SimpleX was recommended more than Signal.

Participating has really helped. I’m still struggling to post, but I try to comment wherever I feel I can add value, however small.

Build the platform you want to be part of.

Stuff like PostmarketOS looks interesting. The new Furilabs phone doesn’t sound too bad either.

If you have the money, consider donating $5 to a couple Linux mobile projects. Small donations here and there can be the difference needed to make Linux mobile a viable option.

My shift was primarily ideologically driven. I was sick of privacy encroachment, enshittification, and feeling like my computer wasn’t truly mine. Linux changed all that.

I get a couple miles of range! There’s a decent number of nodes in my town though, and the terrain is flat, which helps significantly.

I’ve been experimenting with Meshtastic for about a year now, and I love it! It’s currently my backup comms plan for my wife, as well as a few friends and family.

Although, I am putting more of my hopes into the reticulum network, with the hopes that it grows in the future.

The device this user mentions is the Lilygo T-Deck, and it’s wonderful! It’s on the pricier side of meshtastic devices, but works quite well. It’s the device I’ve given to my friends and family in town, as it’s much less hassle than trying to teach them to use a device with the app.

You can download from this site which comes from Proton directly, this Github repo, or this link which downloads the F-Droid build

After using Autotiling from the Cosmic desktop, I can’t go back to anything else. I’ve tried distro hopping to Gnome based desktops for a few reasons, but always wind back up on Cosmic.

Proton Pass can also be downloaded from Obtainium, if you’d rather go that route.

Like everyone else in this thread, I would strongly recommend GrapheneOS.

To give you a specific phone recommendation, I would suggest the Pixel 9a. At $500 before any discounts, it’s the best value per dollar for a privacy oriented phone. Because it just came out earlier this year, it will also be receiving security updates for years into the future.

Coincards allows you to buy gift cards with crypto.

Congrats!

As a quality of life upgrade, I’d recommended downloading the COSMIC app store. It’s still made by the developers of Pop!, but is significantly better than the Pop Shop.

I do!

My use of a Faraday bag is more prepper oriented (i.e. solar flares) instead of geared towards privacy, but I keep a Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS, linux laptop, and eReader in a SLNT Faraday bag.

My tests have been far from perfect, but the phone’s Bluetooth and cell reception have all ceased working once put in the bag.

Have answers prepared for some common interview questions, such as:

• Describe a time you had conflict with a coworker, and how you handled the situation.
• Describe a time, as a supervisor, that you had to make an unpopular or difficult decision.
• What is your greatest strength?
• What is your greatest weakness?
• What is your approach to leadership?

And so on. These are all questions that deserve a bit of thinking. Don’t do that thinking in the middle of your interview.