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If I don’t recognize your number I’m not answering the phone. Unless, I specifically am waiting for a call, like from an archaic doctor’s office, or to get a verification of something. That is the only circumstance I will answer a unknown number from.

Even then, I use a voice answering service, that asks the person to identify themselves, and then I am told who is calling. So if that’s not filled in I still don’t answer.

Then, if they get to voicemail, and they don’t leave a voicemail message, they’re obviously spam… And I’m vindicated by not answering the phone

90% - If I recognize your phone number, I will answer the call if I’m not in a meeting. If you call multiple times in a row, I will leave the meeting to answer your call. But it better be an emergency or we’re going to have some feedback to go over…

Also, the people who call multiple times instead of texting and then calling, really really really really really need to stop doing that. If it’s an emergency call, text, call again. Because of the call I’m going to pay attention to what the text message says. So I can see oh it’s a f****** emergency. If you’re the kind of person who leaves a voicemail message, or text message, that just says call me back as soon as you can. F*** you. Learn how to communicate

fdroid does not require you to sign in

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/hardware/?h=networking#secure-your-network

Really you need to first define your threat model, the EFF has a good guide on that.

Maximum paranoia would be Wi-Fi only connects to a restricted VLAN that can only talk to a VPN server. You must use a VPN to access your network over wireless. That’s probably too much work for most people. But it would be the most compartmentalized, not trusting Wi-Fi encryption, which really isn’t that strong

Super basic data hygiene means you only use WPA2 and above security for your Wi-Fi network.

Depending on your actual threat model, what you choose to do will probably be between those two points.

I have a, honest to goodness breaks the electron flow, power switch for a reason, the shutdown command was a warning not a request.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/

Opening up your request for advice with an attack on people isn’t helpful, it makes lemmy a more combative place, and will diminish the totality of advice you get.

Since your still learning typing, you have a great opportunity to program yourself with chorded keying rather then the standard touch typing. I highly recommend it, its quite the force mutiplier.

As far as learning key layout, go full immersion, print out the key layout on paper, replace your keycaps with blanks (keep the home row bumps). It will suck for a week, but your more likely to learn the layout by touch this way. Keep playing your typing training games!

If you want to go full crazy, braille keycaps are fun

If you want a hands off linux experience

• ChromeOS
• AndroidOS

Ditto

k8s cluster + nix flakes

• having a stalker, makes privacy very important

• Having identity theft, makes privacy even more important

• Being pigeonholed, makes privacy important

Birth rate declines as cultural stability and wealth increase. Period.

Does this mean that birth control doesn’t prevent teenage pregnancy?

Birth Control for Economic Development: Reducing human fertility can raise per capita income in less-developed countries.

Family sizes are down, birth rates are now 1 per family, maybe 2 children.

This is due to many reasons but mostly

• Hormonal birth control
• Women entering the mainstream labor pool

Basically, there are better things for women to do then just have kids. This has a been a huge force multiplier for the economy

However, this means that family lines, genetic lineage, family names, dynasties… All rests on the shoulders of a single child. That’s a lot of pressure.

When you had 10 children, and one or two were “special”, it may have caused some drama but the lineage was still being secured by the other 8.

When there is only one child who then chooses a alternative life style that does not reproduce that means the END of a genetic line, the end of a name, the end of a dynasty, the end of a family. These things are hugely important to people.

I think people are more angry about sexual choices now, because they’re more important, because people have less children.

https://kycnot.me/?t=&q=sms

Sounds like want a pbx with extensions, like astrix. You could program it twilio too

But… sms verification systems won’t honor extensions

Splitting the discussion: having the same topic in three or four different places means there’s going to be three or four different discussions, we would benefit from having a single discussion where everybody got to participate. Lemmy is small enough that everyone can see everything by browsing all. You don’t need to post the same topic into a bunch of different places

I appreciate your frustration, but systems run by humans run at human speeds.

Public forums always have issues with trolls.

Matrix really is the kind and fluffy version of IRC.

The best solution is to spend time in spaces where you know the people, or the culture, already.

Linux with packages, specifically debian with packages. It’s fine and I’m happy it exists,

but… if your a security researcher, political dissident, hacker, etc you should be using Qubes inside of which you can run this debian distro if you want. you could even run Kali, and parrot at the same time!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_OS

Parrot OS is a Linux distribution based on Debian with a focus on security, privacy, and development

You misspelled Qubes

https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

process management intensifies

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/android-overview/#choosing-an-android-distribution

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android/distributions/

https://share.privacyguides.org/tools/grapheneos/

There you go. Everything you wanted to know and more about Android security and trade-offs