Use distress pin. Wipes the phone. Restart from backup.

CoreCtrl is mid TBH. Not much granular control. Doesn’t auto adjust so you have to apply every startup.

Then perhaps this could be a way for you to lockdown internet traffic to and from your device. Major privacy improvement.

Straight from their site.

NetGuard provides simple and advanced ways to block access to the internet - no root required. Applications and addresses can individually be allowed or denied access to your Wi-Fi and/or mobile connection.

Blocking access to the internet can help:

reduce your data usage save your battery increase your privacy

Edit: Uses the same slot as VPN on a phone. Thus you have one or the other. Not both. PC is different.

Cutoff internet access on all apps that expressly do not need it. Install Netguard or the likes if you don’t used a VPN and see what apps are calling home.

Check out Posteo!

I will look into this. Thanks. Rhasspy is super intensive for setup. Such a cool option but too niche currently for my use. EDIT: This is cool. Self hostable here a link for others to check it out. https://sepia-framework.github.io

I looked into Mycroft but sadly they have shutdown is appears. Their lead Dev left and went to work on Home Assistant. I think Home assistant is dominant in this space. But things aren’t refined for plug and play use. Yet! They are making major strides in the space though.

I seen Microcunt Teams has a really nice summarize feature of meetings things like that are so nice even taking notes and asking questions about the topic. I will look into Siri. I hate apple as much as microshit but I need something mains stream as I don’t have time to set things up. Otherwise I would go the HA route. A lot of the replies are missing the ask here. I’m looking for ways to aid in privacy of a plug and play system like an echo dot or siri, google home, etc. Such as behind a VPN, fake account, and more. Ways to protect myself from the bloodsuckers.

Desktop, Librewolf

Mobile Brave, Mull

I dig this. Especially the speech to text then run the command online. I’m afraid I don’t have the current time to implement this and need big brand assistant quickly, I need advice on how to protect my privacy while using alexa, or google assistant, etc… But damn this is nice. Almost exactly as one would want an AI setup really. Home assistant has came a long way and that is awesome. Those people do good work.

The main Dev left and went to work for home assistant I believe.

I really love the idea of setting this up. I keep up fairly with these types of projects. I just lack the time to implement this myself. Which is why I was mentioning a mainstream service and finding a way to privatize it. I plan to use the assistant for work. I work long hours. By the time I am done for the day I feel cooked. I need a relatively plug and play system. How could I help privatize say an echo dot? Or some other mainstream Voice Assistant.

Leon looks promising. I need something online though. For internet based questions and answers. I’m not sure if Leon is internet capable or have such extensive usages for daily use. That’s why I wondered if it would be easier somewhat to privatize a main stream voice assistant. I know there is drawbacks either way with what I need to do.

Can you use say futo voice input with OpenAi’s API why does one need to use whisper. And Wyoming seems to be an integration with home assistant.

This is why I choose not to have kids. Actually because current state of affairs and their like a boat anchor to freedom.

Most major American sites no longer accept these and they have become finnicky including locking the card so you have to call the call center to reopen the lock. This is due to curb laundering. Walmart in person works. Gas stations work. Used to work everywhere now, not much.

Drip drops help me, body amours aren’t enough. I want to try LMNT. Or some other brands.

I love Mulls new browser fork of Firefox but on Gos it weakens the security due to a sandbox implementation not being as strong vs Chromium. I hate big corpo who don’t. Brave seems to be the best mobile for now. Sucks but soon as sandboxing issue is fixed. Firefox FTW!

Well all of them have a sort of pressure but some more than others. The negative sort of pressure your feeling is inverse sound supposedly the opposite from what your actively hearing. I think personally I have smallish ears the Bose quiet comfort ultras are the best ANC you can buy period I do notice airpod pro gen 2 has a lot of pressure followed by the Sony wf1000xm5. If you listen to airplane TVs alot the Jabra elite 10 gen 2 has a nice plug and stream to the headphones feature but the noise cancelling isn’t the best ofc YMMV. The top comfort is gonna be memory foam rather than silicone inserts you don’t get the sweaty ear feeling and the seal has less expansion feeling inside the ear for hours worth of use in one go, I used bose to protect my hearing at a concert worth every penny, they auto ANC if noise reaches dangerous decibals Sony has the feature but their app has like 9 trackers and you have to use the app to set it up, Bose no app no fuss all features. Cost an extra 20 order them online for memory foam tips of various sizes. I would never go back to silicone period. The Bose have two adjustable zones for outer ear shape and inner ear size. Battery last about 6 hours with ANC not as long as other brands but they charge in like 10 minutes to half or close to it. I tried every pair of the top brands and models which was like 1500 to 2k.

Id try the Bose then Jabra if I was you skip Sony and skip airpods. I am sensitive to the pressure feeling from extreme chronic nausea. I’m not harping for any brand but I stand on the fact that Bose has superior comfort and ANC. AVOID plastic housings like airpods. After an hour or 2 your ears will be so sore for days. Avoid Bone conduction. Sounds cool but in reality its not worth the salt. I’d recommend some over ears but if your traveling like I do then those larger headsets can be too cumbersome and the headbands hurt over time or side pressure over the ears especially with glasses.

Edit: I can’t speak for galaxy buds, and JBL sucks. I tried JBLs best buds and they was ANC but you couldn’t tell just hurt from the plastic housing and ANC would been better with cotton balls in your ears.