Your lived experience and/or memory of the resistance years is apparently VERY different from mine…

The tone of all non-MSNBC (and maybe MSNBC, they’re so irrelevant they might as well not exist and I’ve seen nothing from them) televised media has a DRASTICALLY more pro-Trump tone than ever before – CBS, NBC, ABC and CNN

Imagine a bright pink background with tiled rotating toaster gifs across the whole thing, with a couple panes saying you like Bloc Party over that

AFAIK, in all anglosphere countries at least, the vast majority of asylum seekers are processed by border patrol shortly after entry, and they certainly would go through your belongings on the premise there was drugs or a nuke or something and find the gold bars.

I’m fairly sure these days most refugees at least go through some manner of process in the country they claim asylum in. You can’t really exist off grid anymore

I predict Trump will back down within a month and the newly “Trump good” media (an odd reversal after 8 years of “Trump bad”) will do what they did with Colombia and claim him backing down is actually him winning because they now propaganda for the GOP instead of the DNC.

If you’re crossing a border they’ll try to customs you about gold coins/bars, jewelry you can claim is like, a precious family heirloom or your wedding ring or whatever.

I believe Apple opened up progressive web apps outside the EU so you could use Freetube as a PWA on your iPad possibly

Reddit is reachable on tor and has a .onion version that supports both normal and old. versions

Yes, this is totally what I was thinking of!

Possibly?

I don’t thiiiiink that’s it, but like I said, I don’t remember the name, so it might be 🤷‍♂️

There used to be one years ago that used WiFi radios or Bluetooth or whatever so you could chat to people near you… I totally forget what it was called though.

I avoid installing anything that isn’t in F-Droid or Accrescent for spying concerns with a couple exceptions I Obtainium, so no banking apps. And yeah, notifications would be nice, but ideally FOSS privacy respecting apps will get better about actively seeking updates like a 90’s email client. Afaik, all push notification schemes that exist allow Google or whoever is the provider to read all notifications that go through that in the clear, which seems baaaad!

Graphene on a Pixel Tablet is great, and Orion Viewer on FDroid is a passable, albeit not ideal comic reader (it does tend to not do certain cbz’s at random for some reason tho)

Have you had a good experience? I’ve considered this exact setup, but obviously this post gives me pause…

I would check your assumptions about the price of a large external drive versus monthly seedbox fees on an indefinite timeframe for equivalent storage. If a hard drive doesn’t fail almost out of the gate, it runs for a long time for free, and monthly fees never go down.

Avoiding the advertising panopticon is your most actionable defense against the state’s panopticon.

An Android TV situation that you degoogle (you can remove a bunch of the Google tracking and ads via Android’s debug interface) would probably be better than either, and Android has EVERY app you can dream of. I’d suggest a linux box, but I assume you want a remote and I’ve never been able to swing a good remote situation on linux.

Oil markets are weird, it seems, and something about different refineries for different oil. It does strike me as odd that we import massive quantities of Canadian oil that’s prone to explode while also exporting massive quantities, but that’s what the official numbers say 🤷‍♂️