Your point?

But I’m still not going to do anything to fix it because I’m strong and was able to overcome it

Gottem

Have you ever seen the degrees in professor’s office? None of them are level

Is it… is it… dead?

Those aren’t cats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFPaSIy--50

Parry and hit back. Ask her why it matters what you use if you can function with them as if you use google. Then return fire with your favorite reason not to use google. For me, I like to open the dev tools in Firefox, and show the head of any website. Let them choose. Find the line with google analytics, google tag service, or google ad sense. “Wow this website has nothing to do with google. Why is this here? To track you. Did you know that google can track your mouse? Even if you don’t click on anything? Or they can track you by installing fonts?” Etc. Etc. Scare the shit out of them and they’ll leave you alone. Hopefully you can slowly begin to convert them.

What makes this graduate level?

Lovely!

Use OpenStax

Fairphone4 user here. Fairphone is the kind of environment you go into knowing there are tradeoffs (e.g. the camera sucks) but for me, what you gain in terms of privacy and the downright respect they have for you as a customer are worth those tradeoffs.

They didn’t have the wheel in the bronze age 🙃

I’m confused by the goal and the plan. You have to get pre check for your job, but you find it invasive. So you ruin one of the biometric samples they take? Won’t they look at it more carefully? I doubt they will just throw their handd in the air and say fuck it

Excuse me. ‘Free Software’ is capitalized. It is a proper noun. Do I need to explain to you the differernce between ‘Free as in Freedom’ and ‘free as in beer’?

I have a fairphone 4 with /e/OS. It’s been everything I’ve needed without being spectacular.

A big complaint is the way you get apps. I don’t add apps often, and often I use adb, but the App Lounge is slow af. I predominately use obtanium to get the apk’s directly. It has F-Droid built in, but if that doesn’t work I use F-Droid proper. This splits my apps into 4 separate bins which I absolutely hate.

The camera also sucks. Stabilization, quality of images, low light, images with motion. They are all bad. Luckily for me, I don’t take pictures of people often. This applies to most camera apps. The default camera app has been patched to eliminate some of these problems, but I haven’t applied it. I’ve heard past the fairphone 4, these problems have largely been fixed.

What could be a dealbreaker for some is something I haven’t verified nor use. (If this is important look into it. I don’t want to spread rumors) The voice typing on the default keyboard now has/will have telemetry. Potentially to Google? I understand Murena needs to make money, and it isn’t personally a dealbreaker, but it is opening a door to other privacy violations. Many people in the community see this as unacceptable and once you’ve violated trust, you never get it back. For me, I’ll hang in there until I see a more substantial reason to switch (same as Proton, but leave me alone about that)

Those are all the negatives of the Fairphone 4 and /e/OS I can think of, but there are many other positives that imho outweigh the negatives. And depending on where you are coming from (e.g. google/samsung android or ios), you have to realize that with phones like the fairphone and roms like /e/OS there are large pros, but there are often large cons. Here, I’ll gladly accept those for what I’m getting in return.

LMK if you have other specific concerns. I might have just left them out. There are also ways I better secure my privacy, but you didn’t ask about that 🙃

So this is the line? Renting?

All the better. You can blame the other people for being savages eating pizza with utensils. It makes it more resl

This is why I pick up and ask for extra silverware

Saying you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Something meant to maintain a high or low temperature. A Thermos or pizza delivery bag or a bag for bringing frozen groceries home. Some might just be foam, but there are also ones with metalic coating or a steel shell.