I’m not sure this can be done more easily without root access as many Android services and Gapps are intertwined.

You can try this solution via ADB, this is just an example

pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.app

As for SMS app, I use QKSMS

I just saw this, it’s available on f-droid and play store

Deku SMS is an Android SMS app.

Deku SMS is being developed as a proof-of-concept for secure SMS messaging, SMS image transmission and SMS-Cloud communications.

https://github.com/deku-messaging/Deku-SMS-Android

The timing is probably just coincidence. He probably submitted a bug bounty weeks or months earlier and it just now got included in release notes

The fraudulent orders happened a few years ago, which was alleged recently

The indictment states that the pair attempted to fraudulently obtain over $3 million from Apple through more than two dozen fraudulent orders. For orders that did complete, they obtained around $2.5 million in electronic gift cards and more than $100,000 in “products and services.” The scheme started in December 2018 and continued until at least March 2019.

You are not really wrong, TPM was designed by Trusted Computing Group consisting of big tech companies like M$, IBM, AMD, Intel, Cisco and HP.

fTPM has a bug, don’t know if it’s fixed

https://www.techspot.com/news/93684-amd-promises-fix-ftpm-issue-causes-stuttering-freezes.html

Veracrypt also doesn’t recommend using encryption that relies on TPMs

Some encryption programs use TPM to prevent attacks. Will VeraCrypt use it too? No. Those programs use TPM to protect against attacks that require the attacker to have administrator privileges, or physical access to the computer, and the attacker needs you to use the computer after such an access. However, if any of these conditions is met, it is actually impossible to secure the computer (see below) and, therefore, you must stop using it (instead of relying on TPM).

If the attacker has administrator privileges, he can, for example, reset the TPM, capture the content of RAM (containing master keys) or content of files stored on mounted VeraCrypt volumes (decrypted on the fly), which can then be sent to the attacker over the Internet or saved to an unencrypted local drive (from which the attacker might be able to read it later, when he gains physical access to the computer).

https://veracrypt.eu/en/FAQ.html

Let’s assume the attackers were law enforcers

soon “Planet of the Raccoon”

Just like his father

I do agree with you, the obstacle is that there are many applications that are not available on Linux or they’re not as powerful as on Windows. As for me is MS. Excel, many of my office clients use VBA in Excel spreadsheet to do calculations.

And remember that your data and telemetry are sent to Microsoft servers to train Copilot AI. You may also need to subscribe to some advanced AI features

Yes, AI PC like in the movie HER

I can open CNN without any troubles 🤔

Check this

https://phiresky.github.io/lemmy-federation-state/site?domain=quokk.au

AFAIK, in order to fix outgoing federation issue, you need to restart Lemmy and DB every few hours. This is a temporary solution

Someone said -45.5 °C

On non-root android phone, I always use this steps to maintain privacy

Install f-droid app first, so you can install this apps from f-droid repo

• Mull browser (firefox fork) + uBlock Origin
• Cromite (Chromium fork with adblocker)
• personaDNSfilter or RethinkDNS
• OsmAnd map
• GMaps VW (gmaps webview wrapper)
• Aegis Authenticator (offline 2FA)
• Binary Eye (barcode scanner)
• NewPipe
• K9-Mail
• Nitter for Android
• VLC
• ImagePipe / Scrambled Exif (EXIF remover)
• KeepasDX
• QKSMS
• OpenBoard

Since reddthat is on lemmy 0.19.1, you should be able to block instance. You can find this setting from lemmy web UI, not sure if it’s already on lemmy mobile apps

I’m not so surprised

I’d like to get isekai, with all my current knowledge. I might be OP at school and at work

It’s time for you start to using LibreWolf (uBlock Origin pre-installed)

Anyone know of some good alternative news communities? I’m happy to switch over asap.

Beehaw.org but its server is based in the US, and lemmy.ml but you know…

I don’t like the idea of other people curating my feed.

I’ll leave fediverse, so many instances in the fediverse are still federated with Threads

https://fedipact.veganism.social/?v2