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Use the user profiles feature of grapheneos to make a "social" profile and only use that to access Instagram / facebook.

Meta sells your convo data on WhatsApp for ads, if you use it you will get targeted ads regardless.

Other options are signal (Molly on fdroid), simplex, etc.

And if you need port forwarding use airvpn. Proton seems more and more sketch every day

Goddamn time flies lol

Great, glad we have agreements with Mexico to aid us. I remember a couple years ago we sent the Mars bomber from BC to Mexico to help as well.

Now if only the UCP would stop cutting our own wildfire fighters maybe we wouldnt need to call in international reinforcements every year.

Dudley The Dragon would like a word

Google updated something that broke most third party clients this past week... newpipe had the fix within an evening and the rest followed shortly after.

I had multiple updates over a few days on smarttube beta so the devs must have been working overtime to get it fixed and its working great again now.

Reminder to consider donating to the project if you get use out of it.

Ya there's no such thing as "being forced to use it". What are they going to do, lock you in your room with no food if you refuse? Just stand up for yourself and say you are not comfortable having it in your room and don't compromise on it.

There's also a motherearthnews article showing a simple DIY setup complete with infloor heating!

Ya don't go. /s

But for real, so many better places to visit in the world.

But definitely remove biometrics at minimum.

If your OS allows you could setup a dummy user profile and have your phone on that at the border?

if you have grapheneos they just recently added the ability to set a "security pin" that starts an uninterruptable wipe with no restart needed. Just make sure its not something you can pocket fumble accidentally.

Hmmm nope I just updated some apps yesterday. I had to uninstall and reinstall Aurora store cause it wasnt showing the anonymous option anymore, but after that it popped up and worked like normal, no sign in.

Look into the user profiles feature to further isolate any play store apps you still use. I have one profile called gshit and thats the only one I install anything non-opensource on from the Aurora store.

This prevents any playstore apps from accessing say photos, contacts, messages, etc on your main profile.

PS. If you don't like the stock launcher either you should check out KISS launcher (minimal mode)

Just throwing out ideas for how you could affect change if you so choose.

Seems to me you are in a position to provide an anonymous tip with images of the dumpster with compacted plastic in it to support the claim to an eco-friendly news outlet to name and shame them and put pressure on management to change.

Keep in mind precautions necessary to remain anonymous when providing any tip if you don't want to be roped in on it. Maybe someone knows a resource for whistleblowers on safe disclosure?