the perfect showcase about the security guarantees of E2EE. It’s important, but it won’t save you if “your” phone is programmed to snitch on you. same thing applies to screen reader AIs, and whatever you grant accessibility permissions or the assistant app role.

fun fact: on most googled phones the google assistant app is by default, without approval, set as the assistant app, and it has access to screen contents. I don’t know if it has that access all the time, maybe only when you are baited to open it by long pressing the home button or trying to turn off your phone with the power button.

better yet: criticizing Debian for the instability of Kali

where did you read that?

To give you an example, if you have no water in your house you need to report on wp. No other way. And this is the standard for a lot of services, wp is the ONLY way to ask for support.

whatsapp requires phone numbers. surely they can be called

It’s a nightmare, i really want to get rid of meta services but it is impossible for my case.

if you have tech skills, try running a matrix bridge for whatsapp for yourself. take it slowly if you need it, you are not in a hurry. your own server, federation off. keep using whatsapp as you did before, and check for a month or two if the bridge is running stable. subscribe to notifications for github releases of the bridge to know if there’s an important update.
you won’t be able to leave whatsapp behind, but at least you’ll be able to get rid of its apps that do whatever that’s not for your benefit

??

I’m pretty sure that only works when rooted. maybe there are exceptions for a few phones

honestly, it’s probably more than that. you don’t just “tick a box” to send commercial packages to places… like, did you hear about VAT?

bulky

who needs ultra slim phones? these are not bulky at all

and not good for privacy

what?

I think they weren’t shipping, so people had to find a reseller or something like that

It’s not as fancy. No graphs, blinking lights, paneled layout.

apparently it has it all

https://lemmy.today/comment/20055580

they can have the slim modem, they shouldn’t get to know anything about the other parts of the OS

don’t forget, any time you meet him

there’s a quiz show on TV in my country. a few days ago they chose some marketing manager. they have dropped out at like the 3rd question, winning nothing. this is rare. Normally I’m cheering for players but I was gleeful for his loss.

as I understood you are complaining that they don’t have a package manager. they do, but not for system software.

you did not read the article

I don’t think the screen overlay permission gives access for screen capture

I was wrong. but this article seems to imply that it’s screen overlay permission is what is needed for this to work.

“tried” why, do you think they failed?

screen capture is an entirely different thing though, and that was not available without permissions for a very long time

Because Windows updates take long and cause downtime. Also forcing reboots is not great (though I dont know if they just do that if there was a real vulnerability, that would be fine)

and also the fear that whatever will break. I often hear that people are afraid of temporarily broken drivers, but also windows updates often reset (unknown!) settings, things like audio device IDs that matter for pro audio software and systemwide audio effects (think device specific EQ and filters).

but on linux the system updates your software too, which is then again, if you are doing something professionally on the system, you are almost guaranteed from time to time to come across bugs that are in the way

But I guess Windows updates are more stable than typical Linux updates, more tests etc.

It’s weird because it’s true even though the filesystem and updates are much better organised on Linux. I mean the weird part being that windows is that stable even with the chaos it does in its system files.

from what OP said I think the sites’ DRM blocks watching on linux. I mean, why wouldn’t they try the website?