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Pros and cons for an extra phone number (dual Sim)
  • I have been doing precisely that. You have your personal number and the secondary number that doesn't have to be attached to your name if you want. Ofc law enforcement and telecom companies will be able to trace you based on cell tower locations and phone model.

    Pro: An extra disposable number to give out whenever people ask you for "we need your phone number for ShittyDiscount". Whenever the spam calls get annoying I simply pop it out and place another prepaid sim.

    Con: Phones with dual sim support can be rarer to find and be more expensive depending on your country.

  • The Pitch to Use Device Microphones for Ad Targeting
  • The consensus a few years ago in /r/privacy was that it's too expensive and risky for smartphones to transmit audio data to their HQ, bandwidth constraints, processing power and capabilities considered.

    Now... with higher specs and advances and optimizations in AI for audio transcription, would it be feasible to do all that spying but locally on the device itself? The device would transmit 'daily reports' after processing.

  • TIL Debian releases are named after Toy Story characters
  • It made me wince when Android did away with its dessert based codenames and now they're just 'Android 12' etc. It really went corporate after that direction.

    And please tell me RebeccaBlackOS shows a cool popup or console message every Friday.

  • Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10
  • We need to remind ourselves that there's an entire generation that has grown up with smartphones and only touching a laptop or a desktop pc occasionally. For them, windows or chromeOS alone is a challenge. Linux is just an isekai waiting to happen when you cross that bridge of no return.

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