There is the 2A left, and the people who were active in places like weekendgunnit (broadly anti government, with a lot else mixed in) on Reddit that are both very anti Russia, or at least anti Russian imperialism. So pro gun doesn’t always equate to pro conservative.
Many things need an app. I have to use a government one for work, there is no website for it. It’s locked down and will not work on a rooted phone. That’s what I mean.
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Gilmore’s quote was true then, it is not the current state of play.
If you need to use banking/government/transit apps, you need to play by the rules now
I don’t get many spam calls but I thought this was what everyone did.
I could do it on my Android 8? Phone. With its notification led, and card slot, and headphone jack… I miss that thing
I have a friend who is First Violin who swears by The Firebird, the piano reduction, while on acid. I find it too much, but I’m not First Violin, and he’s done way more drugs than I have, so there’s that.
There was an old saying that the best way to learn a new language was ‘under the mosquito net’
If it is not getting updates then it isn’t getting vendor security patches, it will still get Google Play Services and Android System Webview patches assuming those are enabled.
I wouldn’t use any kind of banking or payment apps, so anything linked to an account from which money can be directly debited. That can be a lot of things from EBay to highway toll collection to paying for coffee.
I’m not trying to fear monger but it’s time mom got a new phone. Use this one for streaming in the kitchen, or give it to a niece. Locked down of course.
Edit: that’s if it’s Android, if it’s iOS it will not get any patches once it’s end of life.
DivestOS (rip) had a chart of updates/security patches. 1st was GrapheneOS, 2nd (right behind, often same day) was DivestOS, LineageOS was often 3rd, then CalyxOS, e/os was well out of date.
You have photos and the link to the QR code right?
If he goes against your agenda he is obviously a false pope
They’re pretty nuts. Saying something like that is heretical if you’re Catholic. The Pope is gods messenger on earth.
They’re big on “Francis didn’t do enough to root out pedophiles”. I would agree, he didn’t. But he did much more than the Nazi pope before him. This is the new world though, Benedict was the ancient past. This is all Francis’s fault. Plus he was a Commie/LGBTQ plant who turned all the frogs gay
If they are religious at all they might talk about the papacy
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/maga-catholics-vatican-pope-conclave
Have fun with that
What are your interests? Are you looking at Local, All?
Lemmy has a lot, but it is nowhere near Reddit. It is growing, but slowly
So do you vote for a party then? And the party head may or may not be changed?
The tradition of JD Vance killing the Pope is always interesting. Strange tradition, but catholics are a strange bunch.
Note that I am certainly not saying notorious couch fucker JD Vance killed the Pope, I am sure it is coincidence that he was the last person to meet with him before he died in flagrante with a sectional
Iceraven often lags behind on security updates. I know you specified privacy, but good to keep in mind.
I use Ironfox, because I previously used Mull (rip) with RethinkDNS, and Orbot