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

In the recent months, there has been a noticeable shift away from the Windows desktop, as well as from macOS,

from macOS? what happened there?

plaintext is the unencrypted form of data. encryption produces ciphertext. encrypting the same data with the same key twice results in the same ciphertext, unless additional steps were taken to insert additional data that does not match (like a nonce) to the plaintext

the way it works is that the veracrypt container basically contains 2 encrypted partitions. if it can’t decrypt the first one with the password, it will try the second one, but always pretend to try both so that the time it takes to unlock it does not give it away. by writing to either, you risk overwriting data in the other one (except that you can input both the hidden and main partition passwords and it will make sure to keep the hidden partition unaffected), but otherwise both partitions are fully functional

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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

note taking apps often dont sync and don’t keep the timestamp when you “sent” it. vikunja does not work offline. a selfmessaging chat app can keep the message until it can send it