Ignore everything that has a shitcoin/token/blockchain attached.

Here's my solutions:

🔹Forget about email, it's a garbage outdated centralized protocol with zero privacy.

🔹Forget about chat apps, they are all centralized and compromised, use Nostr DMs with burner npubs.

🔹Use a VPN for normie stuff while you still can, and TOR for everything else.

🔹Forget about browsers, including the Tor Browser. You can't win that battle. Even if you hide your IP and disable Javascript, you will get fingerprinted. The web is dead anyways—full of bots, ai generated slop, ads and trackers... you won't miss anything trust me. Use foss apps and RSS feeds instead.

🔹Ignore all privacy services from companies, specially the ones that have Terms of Service's and Privacy Policy's. They are all centralized and easy targets for govs, future honeypots.

🔹Ignore all 'decentralized' alternatives that have a shitcoin attached. THEY WON'T SURVIVE LONG TERM.

#privacy #opsec #cypherpunk

I totally get this, especially if it needs to be a second device at least for awhile. I like working with computers, but I still find the need for my old iPhone at times. For example, the wonderful open source Organic Maps while great and sufficient most of the time, just isn't as good at providing directions with public transit in an unknown city. Back to the cost, I got my pixel 7a for $250 USD before tax and a case during one of Amazon's sales last year. At this time an 8a during hopefully a future sale would probably make the most sense. Or find a fellow graphene user at a bitcoin meetup upgrading to a newer model willing to pass on an older pixel at a good price, just to try it out.

⚡️⚠️ ALERT - Ledger users have reportedly received letters posing as Ledger, announcing an "urgent and critical security update" and asking users to scan a QR code and provide their seed phrase.

Ledger has confirmed that these letters were a scam.

Ledger will never ask for recovery phrases by phone, SMS or any other means.

The letter states that "failure to complete this mandatory validation process may result in restricted access to your wallet and funds".

I appreciate that for some iOS users cost and/or inconvenience of a second device may prevent, but a pixel 8a with graphene may be a way for many. Be careful to avoid Verizon and other models with a locked bootloader. Again, if two devices are feasible, doesn't have to be daily driver. Begin to free yourself from the walled gardens, and start enjoying the wonderful world of FOSS!

I appreciate that for some iOS users cost and/or inconvenience of a second device may prevent, but a pixel 8a with graphene may be a way for many. Be careful to avoid Verizon and other models with a locked bootloader. Again, if two devices are feasible, doesn't have to be daily driver. Begin to free yourself from the walled gardens, and start enjoying the wonderful world of FOSS!

Ugh. All messaging apps require phone number …

Time to move to key chat I guess.