I’m me, and happen to be just about everywhere
It wasn’t that hard for me to flash a Chromebook with Linux using this guide
Thank you for sharing your journey! It’s very interesting and informative to see how others have brought more privacy into their lives. I noticed that you were using something from Simple Mobile Tools. I know you said you were going to replace it eventually, but you should soon, especially if you got it from the Playstore, rather than from F-Droid, because they were acquired.
Here’s the article from Mozilla explaining their position. There is also this random article from The Record that seems to give a bit more of a detailed explanation from what I skimmed.
This was in a VM, but I was running Ubuntu LTS to mess around with Nextcloud, maybe even save some data to it. I also installed Pihole and ran into an issue, so I uninstalled it. Apparently, when you uninstall Pihole, it also gives you the option to uninstall important system packages like ipconfig. Borked my install. I was freaking pissed.
ProtonVPN still offers it I believe
And for some reason printers seem to be the place where the spirits are strongest
Ungoogled Chromium doesn’t have a lot of the security features that Brave, Mullvad, Tor, Librewolf, or even Safari have.
The article says that they’ve been preparing for awhile, but they are now looking to start commercial service.
Waymo has had a small fleet of vehicles mapping the streets of LA since at least 2019, but it only began to make preparations for a commercial service in recent months. Aside from mapping, Waymo has been following its traditional playbook of deploying its vehicles in autonomous mode with a human safety driver behind the wheel before transitioning into a commercially available service.
I believe that NitroKeys are open-source. The New Oil did a video covering them.