Thank you for the correction. For Matrix encrypted messaging, does it depend on app/'program, or is it dependant on the instance?

XMPP is decentralized but it is not federated.

XMPP is decentralized but XMPP has never been federated. I’m a fan of OMEMO but it’s decentralized.

Anybody looking for privacy from a federated service will never find it. It seems SimpleX is implementing more decentralized capabilties and it has superior privacy over anything else.

While Signal is the gold standard, it is not at all the best app or service for privacy.

Can anyone name a federated service that has built-in encrypted messaging enabled for privacy?

I view the repeated reply of “start your own server” as a cop out to not address what is fundimentally broken about a service, plus it doesn’t acknowedge that starting a new instance requires taking on a daily obligation of attending and checking that the service is running and immediately addressing in as short time as possible.

Look at the rules of a instance that focuses on a particular topic or industry, they still have rules for public postings or acceptable speech.

Since Mastodon has the capabilty to ban IP addresses and for one instance to ban another instance from communicating with it, that’s using a deny-all rule due to specfic individuals, so everybody on the internet who uses one server do not exist online for people on another server.

One of the main or even first rules for a lot of Mastodon is nobody is allowed say anything bad about tansgender or homosexuality an will result in account delete or ban, that much censorship is a cult.

Not allowed to criticize vaccines. I’m not talking about messaging individual users, simply a public posting criticizing trans ideology or injections, banned.

If someone reads the rules across a long list of Mastodon instances, a picture becomes clear about conformity to acceptable speech. Functional healthy adults are mature enough to ignore it or they themself choose to ban a user from messaging them, not an admin who had no part in a conversation. If one person creates multiple account and targets individuals, then yes the admin gets involed.

To prove my point, do a search for a Mastodon instance that allows obnoxious or unpleasant statements, that is still allowed to communicate with more populated instances.

You lying to yourself or have unfounded expectations. Everything on Mastodon is in plain text, there is no encryption, and servers get mirrored. It’s only the login info that stays with the instance, and they all say that each instance server keeps logs for a year.

It has never been any priacy at all. The entire point of why Mastodon was ever started was censor evertbody that has the wrong opinion. Twitter wouldn’t delete people because of what they believe, so Mastodon was developed to ban IP address so only approved speech could exist on the internet as far as they are concerned and can avoid ackniwledging the real world. A high number of people on there, especially the admins, live in cult

Why does the nVidia work well on FreeBSD but not Linux? Are you fully confident that the problem is only nVidia if the driver works fine on FreeBSD?

Navi has a built-in download manager, it is not a standalone download manager. I use Navi as a light web browser for websites in case I never a browser on phone.

I do not compile IceCat, it’s available in different repositories.

I am using Graphene abd I disabled Vanadium due to it being Chromium essentially. I use Navi or Download Navi from F-Droid. It does not have as much web functionality as Vanadium, but I don’t use phone for websites, I read websites on computer or laptop, but occassionally something might need a browser momentarily so that’s what Navi for.

If you want a web browser for privacy, I would suggest use F-Droid and in Settings under Anti-features, turn off every option in there, do a search for browser and see what you think of the options. It’s either cheap development or old. A mobile web browser that protects privacy doesn’t seem to exist with the capabilitied of a Firefox.

I’m a strong believer that there is no such thing as a privacy respecting browser that is closed source. For that reason, I use IceCat on computer.

I’m planning to watch it and ask a question.

Take it to a shop and see what they can do to fix it.

This might be of interest to you https://mastodon.social/@simplex/110776953058906725

A definite much needed improveme because I know the memory on 3090 has some issues with temperatures that was improved on for the 3090 Ti.

I would guess that the 5090 is going run cool given how small it will be, but with GDDR7, I’m not sure if it will bring temperatures back up.

Do you have a comparison of temperatures from before and after?

And what was the result of it?

Yeah, someone with the tools has to do it, it’s not simply a matter of pulling the covers apart like a lsptop, phones are more like taking a tablet apart.

I took one phone to a certified Google repair store and thdy said on of the main components inside the board had died, the repair would cost more than another phone so they don’t me not fix it and go find another phone but there was no charge for taking it apart since no work was done. On another phone they did a literally one minute repair job, there was no charge but I bought something to thank them for it.

If yours is nothing more than ribbon cable came loose, that would only take a few minutes. Take it in, you might end up with a fully functional phone after they spend 20 minutes on it and could save having to buy another one.

The store by me is certified in both Google and Samsung by those companies so I trust the technicians, and they also have access to original parts that Google and Samsung put in brand new phones, not a 3rd party after market parts from whoever made it.

You didn’t take it somewhere to open it up and have a look?

I wonder what happened for it to reak so easily like that, maybe it was the quality, whether it was quality of phone of protection.

Right now I’m using a 4 XL, I dropped it outside and protector got damaged, I bought a new screen protector so old one taken off, cleaned screen, it was in mint condition, put new protector on, and that’s what I have now. My original Pixel XL has been dropped several times on hard floor and it’s all fine and everything works.

I plan to buy Pixel 8 Pro for Black Friday and flash it.

Pixels have the widest range of custom ROM support. I flash GrapheneOS to Pixel phones. I would say to get an older Pixel and flash it but you want 5 years of use, the only choice is a Pixel 7, however the Pixel 8 should be out in 2 months and you could put LineageOS on that and be done with it all for a long time, but spend a few dollars on both screen protector and a case. At the ver least, a screen protector, for yor new investment.