Basically, but not everyone has a pixel or can afford to buy a new device.

Here is a good comparison. As a reminder, there is no privacy without security, so if you live in the US (or anywhere that illegal searches happen regularly), I’d argue a less secure solution is by definition a less private solution.

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Iirc Molly in F-droid still using FCM and the google maps API. If you want Molly-Foss, you have to use Obtanium to pull APKs from their git releases.

Edit: I was wrong, you can get it off their F-Droid repository.

Honestly, I think a lot of that was a Russian psy op. We all know Russian trolls have been stirring up the far right to stir up unrest, it stands to reason they’d do the same on the far left too (like the soviets funding both neo-nazis and communists in the 60s).

Plus, “vote for the guy who wants to genocide harder as a protest against genocide” was always a questionable line of reasoning.

Then depending on OP’s comfort level, they can either just use their Facebook account for this student group, or they can use GIMP to modify a scan of their actual ID.

What do you usually use and offer when people ask you for contact?

Ask your family/partner/friends to use signal, it is idiot proof enough for most people. You can provide your email and phone number for acquaintances who you don’t speak with enough to justify installing signal.

I’m not in any student groups, but you can make a dummy Facebook account and only login using their website from behind a VPN.

Banking app I used has blocked me from app after few years of using it when they realized I have it from “unofficial” source - Aurora store.

Just use their website and carry a physical credit card in the back of your phone case.

What’s your way of transport after having few beers in pub? Do you use taxi via calling it directly or use that weird Telegram taxi addon?

We literally just drive drunk here. Is public transit an option? Again, you can sandbox these apps or use their respective websites.

Is there a way to convert google map pins to open source solutions and vice versa? What’s your recommended software for directions? What do you use for driving?

Organic maps is good if you have an address and only need directions. If you need complete records of where local businesses are and traffic info, google maps is your only option. I’d set it up in a sandboxes container though, at the very least.

Do you track fitness activities?

No, and I’d argue that nobody other than serious athletes need to. That being said, you can get a tracker that does not connect to your phone or the internet.

Do you have good phone recommendations? I know that GrapheneOS+Pixel is one, but what about others?

Graphene+pixel is head and shoulders the best option, especially in places like the US where you have to worry about illegal searches. Privacy requires security. That being said, there are alternatives if you cannot afford a new device: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Oh legality absolutely does not equate morality, although we obviously work to correlate them as much as possible.

I will admit, much of my reasoning here is driven by the fact that I live in suburban America, and if I expect to buy literally anything, I buy it from or using a company that does something horrific. It isn’t reasonable to boycott based on even something as simple as “don’t kill people”, because…well I don’t have an alternative.

This is probably a hot take in many circles, but I do not boycott companies.

The purpose of a business is to make money. I do not fault a business for doing something in pursuit of maximizing their money any more than I fault a goat for eating a tin can or a stove for burning my dinner.

I fault our government for not protecting the human rights of the people that business harmed, and I fault the individuals who work in that business for knowingly helping to cause human misery.

The sole exception to this is companies like meta, who have intentionally worked with foreign actors to subvert our democracy. That is treason, and by extension they have made their company an instrument of a foreign power. That entity should be forcibly dissolved and the people in power should be prosecuted under the relevant statutes.

Honestly I don’t know what the issue is on a technical level, I just know they are not encrypted and won’t be for the foreseeable future.

Consult privacyguides.org for guidance regarding new messaging and email solutions. I imagine you’ll probably want to ask your family to sign up for signal.

The only alternative to social media is the fediverse. The bad news is that the fediverse is not private. The good news is that frankly social media as a concept just isn’t mandatory, so if you need privacy, you can just…not. Once you break the addiction, you realize how unnecessary it all was.

Consult privacyguides.org for guidance regarding new messaging and email solutions. I imagine you’ll probably want to ask your family to sign up for signal.

The only alternative to social media is the fediverse. The bad news is that the fediverse is not private. The good news is that frankly social media as a concept just isn’t mandatory, so if nobody signs up, you can just keep in contact with your friend and family using signal.

We don’t need to match a billionaire. We just need to finance lawyers and advocates to work on our behalf.

As bad as things are now, think about how much quicker things would devolve without organizations like planned parenthood, the EFF, and the ACLU.

I have two pieces of sage wisdom friend:

1. You will spend countless hours of your life fucking. If you ever get the least bit bored, you’re doing life wrong. There is a truly infinite number of ways to accomplish the task at hand.

2. You have spent exactly 0 hours thus far fucking. Like all things in life, fucking is a skill. It takes practice to be good at it.

But honestly I don’t really remember, it was several years ago now. I can say with certainty that we didn’t have many toys at the time, so it was 90% me, her, and her shitty dorm room.

Ok, so serious answer for our friends who don’t live in places without an active culture of protest:

1. Vote. No, really. If people actually fucking voted, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

2. Give money to advocacy organizations

3. Give your time and money to mutual aid organizations

4. Read the news (not just on lemmy either)

5. CALL your congresspeople. Emails and letters are better than nothing, but do not have the same impact.

6. Try to get your friends to do #1-5

My record is almost 8 hours friend.

You (or your partner) need to get good. Or maybe don’t because I was fucking sore after that one, it wasn’t really worth it.

My neighbor tries to break in regularly. Last spring, he was doing it successfully, and it took me a couple of weeks to notice.

I live in Texas. I warned him not to do it again when I caught him. If I catch him again, we’ll see what happens.

Technically, anarchism is incompatible with communism, fascism, and socialism, as all of those require the state to exist in some way if undertaken at the national scale.

Anarcho-capitalism makes the most sense of them all. Just say you don’t want a state to exist at all because you want to suck some robber baron/warlord’s cock.