https://ewwlo.xyz/2019-winter-update.html They´ve also did a Winter update post. I don´t know if i´m missing other posts than that one.

• The /e/elo tax
  
• So basically, they buy phones, put /e/OS on it, put it in a fancy box and sell them for more money (the /e/elo tax™).
  
• Well, we kindly took the time to make a price comparison between the refurbished phones and the /e/elo phones (the /e/elo tax™).
  
• That’s right folks, the average /e/elo tax is 100$USD.
  
  Yes.
  
  And you know, I didn´t bought a /e/ phone, because their flashing tutorial (Which included Heimdall, thank you).
  
  But i can say that i bought the Librem 5 already, you know, that 700$ phone with PureOS on it from Librem, which have the specs of a low-tier phone apparently for only a third of the price ?
  
  I mean, my point is, the main explanation explaining Librem prices are apparently their company sizes and capabilities. Alrighty, those are pretty different than just refurbishing phones, due to their price.
  
  You know what, you should have tooked a better comparison like with CopperHeadOS like you talk about.
  
  They were selling their refurbished Google Pixel 2 XL 128gb at $1,299.00 USD, and Amazon are selling one at 209$ https://www.amazon.com/Google-Pixel-Unlocked-12-3MP-Camera/dp/B01M01ZZAC
  
  Does that make CoperHeadOS even more of a scammy company?
  
  I suppose that every refurbishing companies who aren´t beating up Amazon prices are a scam then.
  
  ​
  
  
• More bull$hit
  
• We are proud to anchor /e/ on positive values such as user data privacy, education, energy saving and sustainable development.
  
• data privacy: proved fake in this article and /e/vil
  
• education: literally none
  
• energy saving: i guess they say this because not having Google Play services can save a lot of energy. this can be achieved by just using a normal LineageOS for MicroG installation. plus, adding so many bloat apps into the OS doesn’t help.
  
• sustainable development: stealing code from LineageOS and Aurora Store is pretty sustainable, sure.
  
• What we are building today is not perfect yet, but we believe that it’s the beginning of a truly significant alternative to the Apple-Google duopoly in the smartphone market. And we are getting a strong support for this from our fast-growing community of users.
  
• So we make the /e/elo monopoly! Everyone else spies on you. /e/elo is definatly the only safe option.
  
  I suppose the refurbishing part and the flashing stations are the part of ¨recycling¨ deemed not useable by the Android system envionnement.
  
  For the energy saving, I confirm this is pretty odd, however, for the bloat thingy. Does someone who use a LineageOS can confirm me that you don´t have any Messaging, Photo, Store, Launcher and such installed by default ? I genuinely don’t know if it's basically a build yourself Arch installation basically.
  
  And yeah, Maybe Privacy awarness for the education, but this is a bit bullshit indeed, I agree.
  
  
• The app repo
  
• Sadly, we had to release this piece quick so we haven’t investigated about this yet. Be prepared, though. And help us out on our telegram group :).
  
• PWAs
  
• The goal of /e/ ultimately is to get totally free from the Google and the Android applications ecosystem. It’s not totally possible yet, and will take time, perhaps several years. Progressive Web Apps are maturing fast as a new option for developing low-cost efficient mobile applications, and we want to catch this opportunity and be one of the first actors to embrace it.
  
• PWAs are great, but they are definatly not efficient on many ways, mainly in RAM consumption. You need at least 3GB of RAM on your device to fluidly run PWA apps like native apps, and phones with this specifications are from the mid-high end right now. Oh, and they are bad on CPU usage, so forget about “energy saving”.
  
• Even more bull$hit
  
• Users demand something new and better. We’re in an emerging market — fast growing and very dynamic. We believe that what we are doing is starting to answer real needs, and we are committed to delivering more value and privacy over time.
  
• I would like to end this section of the article by saying that what /e/elo causes is a fake illusion of privacy. Mainly the online services are the biggest illusion. They are not private. They are not safe.
  
  I agree completly with the PWAs argument.
  
  However, the answer to the second part is actually bullshit, in which way Nextcloud is just private and isn´t safe ? I should do a pull request on PrivacyTools.io website to remove Nextcloud from their recommendations.
  
  ​
  
  
• On Gaël (/e/elo founder) getting triggered
  
• Here’s some funny screenshots of Gaël making fun of himself.
  
• Hey Gaël, if our website is so fake, why don’t you contact us to fix it? My Telegram is @v0idifier, my current Mastodon is @v0idifier@todon.nl (as you know, because you blocked it) and my email is void (with a zero instead of o) at riseup dot net. Please go ahead and debunk our website, because clearly you haven’t yet.
  
  He literally said he just don’t care.
  
  I do care tho, but he don’t.

Hi u/tFoirSyaXMjOYKdLjAKo Thank you for taking an interest in my affiliations and work.

I see you erased most of your short reddit history and use a pseudonym so I am not in a position to reciprocate.

But since you reference my body of work, you might want to take a look at some of my vetted academic articles and other publications to ease your mind. Yes, I've been a paid public speaker, writer, radio and TV guest etc for many years talking about privacy -- before Startpage was a twinkle in anyone's eye.

(I've been published in IEEE magazines multiple times, but access to some of the articles likely requires a subscription. Often you can access IEEE materials for free through a corporate, university or public library.)

I disagree with your characterization of Spychips as being "poorly written," but don't take my word for it. Here are just a few excerpts of credible reviews:

>Winner of the Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty

>"This is the first, and maybe the loudest, popular book on a crucial technology of our times; a masterpiece of technocriticism.”—from the foreword by bestselling author Bruce Sterling

>"One of the best privacy books in many years... The privacy movement needs a book. I nominate Spychips."—Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

>"The book makes a very persuasive case that some of America's biggest companies want to embed tracking technology into virtually everything we own, and then study our usage patterns 24 hours a day. It's a truly creepy book and well worth reading."—Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe

>"Provocative... Albrecht and McIntyre have a knack for finding information, and developing sources that make them the envy of investigative reporters."—Chicago Sun-Times

>"Paints a 1984-ish picture of how corporations would like to use RFID tags to keep tabs on you."—The Associated Press

>"A chilling story about an emerging future in which spychips run amok as Big Brother and Big Shopkeeper invade our privacy in unprecedented ways.”—Chicago Tribune

Spychips was a bestseller and still ranks highly at Amazon after all these years:

#90 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Specific Topics > Privacy & Surveillance

Before you accuse me of shilling my book, please note that I haven't made significant money from it in years. Spychips is available in public libraries, and pirated copies are widely available online.

Here are links to some of my recent work:

>Consumer privacy expert qualifies Google announcement at Israel National News

>WBAI's Law and Disorder on Wisconsin employee microchipping

>Net neutrality article at Hacker Noon: Net Neutrality Supporters Are Winning, Even Though They May Not Know It

Note that I also clearly state my affiliation with Startpage.com in bios at other sites, too. Not just at reddit. I would appreciate it if someone would update Wikipedia with this information and some of my other works, too.

Edit: Thanks to Seraphim3 for the Wikipedia edits! I don't know who you are, but many thanks! Other edits are also welcome as the commenter has pointed out that my credentials could use some additional support.

Desktop: The Libreboot D16 seems to be the workhorse out of what's available so far, another version would be the Vikings D16 but keep an eye out for OpenPOWER and like you said, a free-software implementation of the PSP.

Laptop: Either the Libreboot X220 or the Taurinus X200 or the Vikings X200. Technically I think that the X220 still needs the cleaned stub version of the Management Engine but the Libreboot people seem to be confident that they will be able to remove it completely. Some runners up are the Purism Librem which still has some blobs in it's coreboot setup and had a rocky start, and the Acer c720P Chromebook, which can be loaded with an aftermarket coreboot and used as a really solid GNU/Linux netbook. Looking to the future in the Netbook form factor, the EOMA68 Standard and it's implementations stand to be very important and should be supported.

Smartphone you're kinda screwed in terms of being able to run a user-controlled stack from top to bottom. But you can get pretty close if you're willing to make some sacrifices. Technoetic sells phones pre-loaded with Replicant. If the wi-fi on your phone will not work without a firmware blob, get an OTG cable and a USB dongle from ThinkPenguin. Alternatively, you could build your own phone on top of an existing single-board computer. A good choice would be the Beaglebone Black. Then you can use one of the device's USB ports to attach a cellular device(like one of these and use your VOIP system to make calls. Or, if you're happy to use wi-fi only for calling, the Allwinner A1 and A2 have pretty excellent Free Software coverage except for the graphics hardware acceleration. Liberating some random off-brand tablet is a rewarding but labor-intensive process. I think Rockchip has similar coverage but I don't own one of those.

Also, h-node is a very helpful site for questions like this.

Edit: Added Vikings RYF laptops.

Edit 2: Added EOMA68 project link and Thinkpenguin.

Edit 3: Added Sunxi

More Info on my train of thought.

I believe that this is the GitHub repository. My ideal concept would be to run HypriotOS on a Raspberry PI on a shelf at home with Docker running your web container. With a LetsEncrypt TLS certificate set to renew every 2 months.

Welcome to a TNO email model. You can now encrypt your emails to anyone on any vanilla SMTP server and you don't need to install apps anywhere and you can trust your own webserver as much as you can trust your ability to host a secure Raspberry PI.

Side note:

If you think that hiding your email from Google is going to stop them from seeing the bits and bytes eventually you're kidding yourself. So if you can't beat em use em!

My concerns:

• I don't know what kind of code audits have been performed on this.
  
• You want to know every bit of background goes into your Docker containers. This step may be unnecessary for most people. Although it provides a certain degree of protection using docker.
  
• This does not provide you with an SMTP/POP/IMAP server its only a web client which can piggyback normal email servers.
  
  Edit: readability and clarity

I wonder how they will be financing their VPN servers. Assuming that this router (like their previous one, https://passel.io/flter) includes a "lifetime VPN" licence, how can they pay their bills with potentially thousands of people using their service for many years.

A RT-AC86U for 180 - 200$ can already achieve up to 250mbit/s for OpenVPN (https://www.skadligkod.se/vpn/vpn-speedtest-asus-rt-ac86u-merlin-firmware/, https://www.snbforums.com/threads/openvpn-performance-of-the-rt-ac86u.41217/).

If the Beam is in the same price range (maybe up to 250$, including VPN and support etc), then it might definitely be a great option.

Performance wise, Netgear Orbi. The only thing I see it do on my PiHole is ping netgear.com, presumably for automatic updates. It does have some Disney parental controls software that’s opt-in, which is annoying to see. Can’t think of anything else that is good. Make sure you get the full sized router/extenders (RBK50) and not the mini versions, as they don’t have the dedicated backhaul.

Link related:

https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Orbi-Ultra-Performance-Whole-System/dp/B01K4CZOBS?th=1&psc=1

Beep. Boop. I'm a bot.

It seems one of the URLs that you shared contains trackers.

Try this cleaned URL instead: https://www.amazon.com/YOUOWO-Lanyards-Electronic-Devices-disassemble/dp/B06WGPVGCX/ref=pd_bxgy_229_img_2/145-2263616-9462351

If you'd like me to clean URLs before you post them, you can send me a private message with the URL and I'll reply with a cleaned URL.

Slow down. Women need special pens that reflect their delicate sensibilities and unique biology, so it only makes sense that LGBT people would need special apps with purple or rainbow backgrounds.

I think the term OP meant to use is "Applications of Color", and I can't recommend any because it would violate sacred safe spaces for me to even look at the Appstore of Color. But they probably have some awesome apps in there.

Check out /r/homedefense.

Also if you want to go all tin-foil hat there's ways to hide your home address from the internet via trusts, putting your utilities in the name of an anonymous LLC, and such. Michael Bazzell just released a book called Extreme Privacy, you may be interested in.

https://smile.amazon.com/Extreme-Privacy-Takes-Disappear-America/dp/1093757620/

That’s why there’s black post-its at craft stores & Amazon. Thick & black enough to not see through, but easily remove-able if you want/need it!

https://smile.amazon.com/Mint-Mobile-Starter-Verify-Compatibility/dp/B0786RD524/

Mint Mobile Starter Kit with a cheap burner phone. You get a real, non-VoIP number for a week which is long enough to sign up for whatever you need to. Just make sure you don't need the number again after that week is up for verification purposes.

I haven't tried this second part, but you may be able to use one of these "real" number to get pass verification, then switch to a VoIP number after the fact.

Something like this USB hub?

Check out pfsense with something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01GIVQI3M/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1505001255&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=pfsense&dpPl=1&dpID=41OvNDM8FPL&ref=plSrch

there is an App for this. Maybe use it in combination with a Mic Blocker/Mic Lock. something like this

The book ComSec does this. Turns out the preferred device seems to be an iPod.

ComSec: Off-The-Grid Communication Strategies for Privacy Enthusiasts, Journalists, Politicians, Crooks, and the Average Joe https://www.amazon.com/dp/1722124784/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_wGm9BbVCA1CGD

Tails USBs also do a decent job.

Good info - so is fire/temperature the main concern?

Physical elements are one of the primary weaknesses of drives

Maybe the kind of drives you use are the solution and not the safe itself (from fire) like this might call the company to discuss specific needs/questions

It's an S905W based box. So far i've got it to work pretty well as a "desktop" but i can't get hardware video decoding going on yet.

I will try to get it working though and let you know, but right now i'm busy with other things.

Last but not the least.... thanks a freaking bunch for your work, i run it on all my boxes. Windows, Mint, Debian... now aiming for ARM since i'm planning to go solar (off-grid). :)

I had the same issue, being served ads for products I never ever searched for and only mentioned in conversations. So I bought a pack of microphone blockers on Amazon. When plugged in, they block microphone access but your phone still rings for incoming calls. Highly recommended: https://www.amazon.com/Mic-Lock-Microphone-Blocker-Pack-Surveillance/dp/B01LPQJGA2

Restrict the monitors field of view with a privacy screen. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003V12XFU/

Bonus tip: say you use it for therapeutic / health reasons.

Where are you?

Mint Mobile Starter Kit | Verify Compatibility with Our Talk, Text & Data Plans (3-in-1 GSM SIM Card) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0786RD524/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_6EpPCbSBGMP7F

Check out these from Michael Bazzell:

Extreme Privacy: What It Takes to Disappear in America

Hiding from the Internet: Eliminating Personal Online Information