If you care about security, don’t put a Sim card in your phone.

Depends on what you mean by security... or privacy. You need to define a threat model before any suggestions can be made.

If you're worried about someone hacking into your phone via an app, a sim card likely won't make a difference.

If you're worried about your location being tracked... that can often be done without a sim card or any cellular service on your device.

Then there are malicious carriers (or ones compelled by a government) that could track you without even having legitimate service activated. All phones at least in the US now are mandated to have (A)GPS receivers.

All depends on what your concerns are.

My understanding is that they don't... practically at all. But if compelled by a court to give your information, they could later learn that the information you provided was false. Or maybe someone reported you and they ask for some type of verification. Either way, it's one of many tactics that can be used against someone, even if you only gave fake information to protect your own privacy.

Frivolous DMCAs have also been used to reveal identities of people someone didn't like.

I can see the argument from both sides... and maybe both is true. I think the same could be said about twitter... having to login to read tweets means they can easily track who looks at what... which is very valuable information to a lot of people with money.

I think the only issue with that is that when/if it is found out then the domain will likely be seized because you violated your contract with the registrar to provide accurate information.

Batteries don't explode, they burn.

But actual explosives were planted in the mentioned devices.

Yes.

I wish they didn't switch to requiring a login to search code... seems like a big privacy issue cause you just know they're saving all those searches and associating it with your account.

The problem is not near enough projects support reproducible builds, and many that do aren't being regularly verified, at least publicly.

Yea because I tested it myself. Nobody else seems to care, and if they did, I would think there would be a public way to see regular test results regardless.

I know this exists for some projects, but somehow nothing privacy-sensitive

I have seen people with an axe to grind use frivolous lawsuits to reveal domain identities, you don't actually have to do anything wrong for that to happen.

I wasn't trying to do that, just making a general statement

What I do is use the "Arch Linux Archive" repo and set it to a specific date, which has a snapshot of all the packages from that time. That way I don't have to update all the time but can still install packages whenever I want. When I feel like updating then I just increase the date in the mirror URL. In pacman.conf you would set it like so: Server=https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2024/08/30/$repo/os/$arch

153 binaries? where?

That is true, but also nobody is doing it. Just like nobody is verifying Signal's "reproducible builds".

this could be said about many popular open source projects

I don't understand how if this requires a VPN which I can't use?

Batteries do not explode, they burn.

besides lying, which might be illegal in your area, and/or grounds for having the domain seized if anyone complains.

google wallet is not required to be tied to any bank accounts, and US does not even support NFC within banking apps.

ebassi moment

google wallet in general will not work.

also bank apps utilizing NFC is not a thing in the US

NFC payments also don't work. Non-starter for me

Anything that uses NFC payments.

subpoenas can still reveal the owner

subpoenas can still reveal the owner

subpoenas can still reveal the owner

because search engines exist

almost certainty that your house is appreciating and you’re not constantly throwing massive amounts of money in the fucking toilet.

Hard disagree, as I have had the exact opposites happen and know many others in the same boat. Both houses I sold were at a loss, after I got sick of things breaking all the time and being too expensive to fix.

unless you don’t know how to do even basic DIY shit and you don’t have any friends who can.

Or you are disabled and don't have anyone to help.

Unfortunately I cannot use a VPN because several apps I use (including android auto) do not work with it.

I thought you needed root for app-level firewalls?

I would still have to pay someone as like I said I cannot do it myself. Thanks for the suggestion though

Source:

that would cost as much as just paying the lawn people, I can't do it myself.

Owning sucks too. Shit is always breaking, it's expensive to fix and nobody else will handle it for you. Just paying for lawncare is bleeding me dry, and I don't even use the lawn... but the city/police get angry when I don't cut it.

Perhaps they meant to say "zero perceived latency on a very specific hardware setup"

Several solutions have already been posted in here, please do not try to act authoritative when you don't know the answer. We already saw you asked what VNC is.

People hate being told to use magnetic tape

Because there are still horror stories of them falling apart and not lasting even in proper controlled conditions

Yes I mean google wallet. I've never heard of a banking app supporting NFC payments by itself, I was not aware that was even a thing... googling suggests that might be an EU-only thing.

Every time I think about running custom roms or degoogled stuff, I remember that NFC payments will no longer work and then I get sad.

just be aware that there's only one user and it's root