I’ve thought a lot about this. By making the choices you do you already single handedly categorized yourself. We are under so much tech behind the scenes that any move you make puts you into an analytical box, spot how you do things here or there and you have a pattern of trade craft. With trade craft you can educatedly infer the rest with probability. Exactly how they caught Osama.

Edit: Even spoofing your moves in everyway your still going to be noticed. Hiding has long been gone. Cloaking is where we are somewhere between cloaking and multiple identities.

Told my older parents I use a custom ROM with a profile for work and a profile for personal and they asked me what I’m hiding, and why I’m so paranoid. I said… it’s not paranoia, it’s organization. Color coding profiles allows my mind to switch gears from work to personal life like mental compartments. I am a boring person. I have nothing to be paranoid about. They didn’t believe me. Oh well…

Edit: part of me thinks the whole mental state switching from work profile to personal is an ADHD aspect as well. Especially the color coding helps wonders.

Damn this take needs more love. You will get shouted down And downvoted to the lowest depths if you speak against anything that isn’t graphene. I like the project, it has merit. It’s far far from perfect in so many ways. I don’t believe it’s the white knight in shining armour we like to think it is. Good yes. Saving grace. Not by a long shot. It’s got many fundamental flaws.

Be conscious of your needs, not obsessive. I think a lot of people are obsessive and I get it totally. But FOMO is powerful. Don’t overwork your mind trying to be perfect that you never make moves. Life isn’t static. If your uneducated enough to truly need the utmost best tech stacks with no real knowledge on how to implement and deploy. You likely don’t need to be doing the shit your thinking of, or currently doing.

Just gotta say from someone who’s clean and food hygenic. Your stove looks good and clean! Nice to see.

I happen to disagree here. I’ve used Gos for years it lacks so many fundamental features and has a lot of issues. The entire project has really silod itself into some issues they aren’t addressing. Let me explain by pulling from some of my posts.

Edit: You can’t see everything you’ve ever posted only a brief history. Basically some issues with Gos are lack of full backups/device to device, which in so many ways is a deal breaker… Seedvault works I’ve hopped from model to model phones for years the problems you run into are plentiful and haven’t been addressed in years, each profile must be backed up individually not on the same ssd either, seperate drives as the restoration isn’t possible without seperate drives due to backup limitations. The easiest I have found it to backup like usual with a flash drive for each profile which is super cumbersome to keep up with at the frequency one really should.

I’ve restored and tried everything including dev talks, and their forums, they plan to try to fix some issues but it’s been 3 years so far since we talked in depth and nothing yet, lack of granular networking controls for almost all reasons possible this is an issue most people think connect to a VPN and your solid. A VPN is a single tool in the chain of tools, compatibility and software issues are numerous. Anyone who has used Gos and really daily drove all the functionality aside from flashing a single device for years knows the pains I am talking about the power users.

The project has silo’d itself into security, when that is just one aspect of any system. It’s really not the white knight everyone thinks it is. Yes it has merit, yes it’s well done so far, but to truly utilize in all your cases you mention and average person scenarios for daily life given what people try to use it for and or avoid from say confiscation, seizure, etc etc.

There’s so many issues aside from just losing your device, your life’s data is tied into an OS that well is secure mostly, but you’ll never see your data back again once it’s stolen or lost or taken.

I can’t remember some of the things I have wrote down in my comment history and it’s late in my time zone to rack my memory that deep. But there’s a lot of reasons most people don’t know enough about, or understand why Gos is not the end all be all OS. It’s good and has great features for security but lacks most fundamental features of a modern x86 based system. Mobile attack surface is bigger and harder to control, mobile has limitation issues fundamentally on all sides. So does x86 or ARM etc. Understand your threat model and work accordingly. If you want to continue this I will update the post as I remember Gos limitations and problems.

Yeah I just seen that. GPS is literally the backbone of phones. Wild. Software is the only way to spoof and or disable the feature. Custom ROMs are the only method essentially to gain the control you need. G-OS, lineage, etc etc which means the device also runs leaner and battery lasts days. It’d really the best solution far as I can tell.

Yeah that’s the thing. Hotspots are not any different require the same sim cards except if you choose satellite Starlink. That’s it. So the reasoning behind going the route i have is to completely cut out the mobile aspect and every part within except the 5g sim card since modern infrastructure doesn’t allow it basically.

All comms, apps, services, everything moved to a Linux x86 device and simply cable tether for internet. It’s still identity tied due to SIM (same with hotspots due to sim so a cell is lighter and better equipped to run lean even flashing custom ROMs add to control factor) but again it’s realistically as close and hassle free as one can get for daily use as a total phone replacement for a normal person. The entire phone is disabled aside from data and that’s behind VPN.

Anyone have suggestions on better paths or methods?

Sounds pretty good actually. I repair electronics, I wonder about just removing the GPS chip from the phone?

Either way with internet your going to be tracked the point is to minimize as much ss possible. Triangulation will always be an issue.

I’m not some giant target. Just a daily privacy conscious user like anyone, who wants to support FLOSS projects. I think in my use case I found the least hassle solution. I have no real use for insane amounts of solutions like a journalist or whistler. Just a normal person doing the best they can.

I have decided this approach is such a pain and hassle that I have had to change forms. Mostly due to modern societies infrastructure making it truly impossible.

I moved all phone related things, programs, apps, anything but dumb flip phone calling and texting to a x86 based tablet. (Even a wwan or 5g sim capable device doesn’t have a cellular modem so the easiest route is this)

Hotpot or cable tethering from sim card 5g/4Glte/volte from a smart phone, with your carrier sim of choice, best to pick a device matching their cellular band support in your part of the world. Routing calls /texts to the desktop Linux device of your choice laptop/tablet, 2in1, device of your choosing basically. Using the phone for nothing except internet period…, perhaps a backup device if ever needed worst case if your main goes down or breaks.

Secure and private as one could get, and totally power userable due to linux desktop capabilities and granular controls of literally everything, while still having the best reliable internet coverage, with traditional calling and texting for 2fa and other big corpo stuff. Yes the sim is tied to your real identity, but the actual day to day is much more private and secure than mobile, seperate device, vpn, LUKS drive, veracrypt, all desktop x86 (distro of your choice) Linux abilities. Close as one could get without living under a rock daily. Backups full and snapshots offsite sent to NAS or true cloned drives.

What do you think?

Then you harden the hardware further (so many ways to list again device dependant), and software as well (depends on your OS and needs/wants). (Qubes is too beefy to run all day as a phone replacement regardless of hardware. Batteries are the weak link) That being said pick any distro you feel good about and go.

This form is the most stable method, while being realistic to the goal. I have my own personal preferences for which devices, distros, settings, etc. That I can use daily.

This is the way.

Its the 7th… Me tok

Fuck off Fed Boi.

Raise your kid to understand when the right time to tell someone when bad things are happening and when to not. This should naturally be taught for what morals and ethics you would want to instill. So the solution is to raise your kids with understanding and don’t live in fear. Explain why you move the way you do. Not just monkey see monkey do.

How would anyone get the long string though? Realistically speaking. It would be difficult and unlikely.

Who knows how to steal you mull account with out you knowing? This seems over blown atleast from that perspective. I’m sure it’s possible but unless you are incredibly slopping opsec I doubt it’s even on the list of problems. Given all other things you could be doing.

Damn, that’s a pretty good idea I never thought of cutting up the meat and then browning the ends.

I’ve marinated meat and due to allergies I don’t use much dry spices due to cross contamination. The more I’ve seen and thought about the whole slow cooking large cuts of meat the more appealing it is. I want so bad to get a small smoker but I just haven’t found one yet. Funny enough I cooked a Chuck roast yesterday. Pressure cooker though with carrots and green beans. Black berries for fruit.

Keep it up! I dig the meals and ideas I gain from seeing what all you put in it. I am more amateur chef than anything so any and all ideas help me learn versatility.

Geez that’s insane. That’s food for a few people for days maybe. You have so much more room to do activities too. Kabobs or veggies. Throw some corn or something to fill in a little more space. Maximize potential. I love pork shoulder. Brisket too. Looks good. Almost as if you marinated the shoulder.

I’d like to be a power seeder chad 😂 I just don’t know how.

I have seen it a lot online being mentioned you needed portforwarding. So I just did not know it wasn’t needed. I will definitely start seeding all my downloads. I’m all for sharing and keeping the content public that is the whole point. Thanks!

My VPN doesn’t allow port forwarding so I cannot seed. If anyone has advice to safely seed then I’m all ears. I’ve paid a long time ahead for my provider so I cannot switch.