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And it seems like the situation in Russia is similar: Apple is the 4th most popular brand (2023, link).

Source?

Apple domintaing in … Europe

Even your map doesn’t support this claim.

Belarus is marked as a country where Apple dominates, even though this is not true: Redmi (Xiaomi) and Samsung phones are more popular there (link)

I feel like the difference is not that big, though.

If you rent, your landlord has a right to enter your apartment, even though they rarely use that right. Sometimes, they can check on things. The same applies to apartments in personal ownership: if police has a warrant, they can enter and see if there’s illegal activity. So based on this analogy, no, apartments are not “encrypted” chat rooms, and I don’t think any significant number of places would be considered “encrypted” or “fully private”, if you must.

Continuing with the analogy, Telegram can view and intervene in the activity on the platform, just like landlords or police, but Durov, let’s call him a landlord, protects privacy of his tenants, not letting the law enforcement in.

Speaking of E2EE platforms, I’m sure there’s crime happening on them, because it’s logical for criminals to use more secure protocols, yet I don’t see the same arguments made about them. It’s just they are providing the same (better!) tools to the criminals without an option for law enforcement to see the content (but perhaps with options to ban on request).

And frankly I don’t think there’s too big of a difference between E2EE and non-E2EE platforms in terms of conscience: the former just deliberately deprive themselves of an opportunity to see what content goes through their services.

P.S. that said, I don’t think it’s ok that Telegram promotes the service as private, and that Durov ignored requests to nuke known illegal activity.

Does that mean if you provide an E2EE service, you are a criminal too, because you let people to commit crimes on your platform, you’re just unable to see them? It’s like having a mall with no surveillance or security.

And as someone who walks and bikes, I fucking hate that.

Slightly off-topic, but when I stopped playing multiplayer games with anti-cheats (competitive FPS mostly), I’ve got more time to explore more productive hobbies, and my mental health improved. Might be worth trying 🙂

Flameshot was great. One day it just stopped working on my Ubuntu (Gnome). Now I use the default tool that comes with KDE, and it’s nearly perfect.

Adding capacity. Fossil fuel usage is still growing.

It’s right there in the article. Local keychain.

What argument? I’m just saying that it works for me and many others.

Most commutes aren’t 40 miles even for suburbanites. Some people get worked up for suggesting that biking is viable for a lot of us for no reason, talking about edge cases, that often could be covered by public transport.

Could you elaborate on the ethical part, please?

I don’t need that: I live in a city. Suburbs suck.

I live car-free, and I travel over 40 miles every now and then.

Bikes are great. Just saying.

That’s exactly the point: get a cheap new phone number, preferrably one that doesn’t link back to your identity. And it’s typically an online service, otherwise it’s not gonna be cheap or private (in my country anyway).

I’d do the opposite from what OP wants: a second line for online platforms.

I don’t think avoiding your potential employer seeing you reposting something like fuckworkmemes is taking privacy too far 😉

They don’t provide end-user apps, do they? It’s just APIs and SDKs.

Yes, but I wouldn’t like them to find my profile on one of the social networks that require a phone number. I might’ve said something not so nice about my current job, you know.

I’ll just mention that 1TB Nextcloud (supports encryption) at Hetzner is €5/month, and background upload works. It also has tons of features, not just files.