ProdigalFrog

3 Days of The Condor is the best political movie, IMHO.

Best Apolitical? Picking one of my favorites, Where Eagles Dare.

Both are watchable for free on Archive.org :D

purely anecdotal, but I tried it last month, and an update seemed to bork the nvidia driver, so I figured it wasn't ready for me yet, and went to mint.

I suspect it'd have been fine with open source drivers though.

Yes. Any industry whether blue or white collar, from welders to coders, they'll help you ^^

I would suggest:

1. Joining and organizing within your local community to create connections with others is incredibly powerful, will lay the groundwork for effective resistance.
2. Join the IWW. They have superb resources on how to form a union in your workplace, are uniquely able to unionize any trade, and would be the most likely to join or initiate a general strike.

I suppose an old 2g phone would be safe since they shut down the 2g networks, AFAIK, but those aren't particularly useful as a non-phone device :p

There's quite a few small handheld laptop/computers on the market now like the Mecha Comet or ClockworkPi which only have wifi and bluetooth, I think those would be pretty safe. (Could also make one, like this)

Open hardware would be great. AFAIK there is currently no open-source cellular radio hardware on the market.

It's been a while since I saw the video, but looking at it again, he seems to trust that taking out a sim card and turning on airplane mode will render the phone untrackable, but as Povoq mentioned in another response, even without a sim card it would still be trackable, since the phone would still be pinging towers so it can make emergency calls, which is a good point.

I think realistically the only way to have a phone on your person and truly 100% know you're not being tracked with it is by putting it in a faraday bag/cage, and knowing that the moment you take it out, your location will likely be known to varying degrees.

He seems to think that removing a sim card and turning on airplane mode is enough to make it untrackable, at least with graphene OS. He doesn't mention anything about emergency calls, which sounds like a big oversight on his part if airplane mode doesn't disable it, though he does bring up faraday bags for when he's feeling 'extra cautious'.

The hated one has a video on the subject of making your phone not get tracked, and the main point is that it'll keep tracking you no matter what if the sim card is in it.

EDIT: Even with the sim card removed, it can ping towers to due to the emergency call feature (airplane mode may or may not temporarily disable the pinging). The only way to be sure you're not being tracked is to a put a phone in a faraday bag.

I was honestly hoping it would be an actual fork 😅

Mint could use some forks, like a KDE version. That'd be sweet.

This is no different from saying "The child slaves working the cobalt mines have it worse, so buck up and be grateful!", which isn't terribly useful. Things could always be worse, but that doesn't delegitimize or negate other issues. Instead of saying you could have it worse, why not instead ask how we can improve things, or even propose something?

Not here to claim anything (my backlog is big enough :p), but just wanted to chime in that Truberbrook was a surprisingly fun and well made little game. If any of y'all are point'n'click adventure fans, I'd recommend it!

Wow, that's absolutely wild, especially when it starts looking like cell structures mixed with conway's game of life.

Fantastic find, Omega!