What are you wanting to use it for? I use prepaid cards for most shopping online and just enter fake details if it’s a digital purchase. But obviously that only works for buying things, not being paid

This is pretty much every government’s response to a big sensitive data leak. Draft laws requiring companies to collect even more of it to be stolen

See people here want gambling ads banned, but the PM has ties to gambling lobby groupa so the gov won’t touch it. But when it comes to laws nobody wants like giving cops more invasive surveillance power the government can suddenly expedite them at record speed. We live in a fake democracy

It was also the brainchild of an unelected American with CIA ties who for some reason gets to decide what we can and can’t see on the internet under the guide of eSafety

Membrane because I’m poor

I get where you’re coming from but it was all the result of user requests. People were asking Proton to make more services and apps for years

Not that I was planning to visit the US anyway but I guess this seals it

They’ll probably treat having no social media as suspicious even if it’s true and deny you entry

I just want LibreOffice not to be a sluggish bugfest on macOS

And I’m sure if citizens do anything to remove malware on their devices they’ll be criminally charged too 🤡

Pretty much. Iirc there are a handful of places in the US that allow license plate covers but it’s usually illegal to obscure it for any reason when driving on public roads

• You have to hand over a huge amount of personal info about yourself & others to estate agents when renting a property - which they then sell to advertisers & you have no opt-out
• Similarly, landords can require you to use a proprietary app for rent payments, which of course collects & sells your private data too
• Burner phones are effectively illegal (telcos are required to collect & retain ID of every phone number they register)
• Telcos and ISPs are required to collect & retain logs of all your activities for a minimum of two years
• In some cities police can detain & search you & your property for no reason, and require you to remove any facial coverings
• It’s illegal to refuse to hand over passwords to cops (6 years jail is the max term I think)
• Police can hack your device, take over your social media, delete or modify your data for an investigation, or survey any digital device if they “think it is likely to be used by someone subject to a warrant” (this particular bill was announced and then rushed through parliament in less than 24 hours to give the public as little time as possible to protest it
• Some social media sites (including github(wtf)) are now required to age-verify all users beginning next month. Which will obviously lead to mass leaks & breaches of private data which the gov will turn a blind eye to

This is Australia. I hate it here

Exactly. The lead dev can come across as frustrated or confrontational on his social media posts but really the amount of noobs criticising Graphene for nonsense reasons or repeatedly bringing up other ‘secure’ OSes to him that he’s already thoroughly debunked again and again like e/OS would drive me insane

This shit should be strictly opt-in. As much as I hate overbearing governments, they should’ve stepped in and made it illegal to use already collected data for a new purpose without first obtaining permission. What about people who lost access to their accounts or who’ve died or something?

As much as I’d enjoy getting to work with more Macs I don’t think workplaces will deploy them at scale for the cost alone

What’s the alternative? Linux on phones is basically dead besides a few hobby projects that will never have enough of a following to be a serious contender to the duopoly

It’s a sign of rot in our culture. People feel entitled to know everything about others around them. It’s the same mindset whether it’s trawling through security camera footage or stalking someone on social media or irl. Technology has accelerated the trend and reinvented voyeurism as a mainstream hobby

At this rate we might finally see the year of the Linux desktop. I don’t know anyone who likes Windows 11 it’s been bad enough to convert even die-hard Windows fans to Linux

In what sense?

Real estate in general is a nightmare for privacy, especially for renters. You need to give a wealth of personal info about yourself and any references and it all gets sold, no data breaches needed! And your only opt out is don’t rent anywhere. And if you do anything to upset your landlord they’ll kick you out and add you to the blacklist so no other estate agent will consider you