No they are not. Famously last year it became public knowledge that the built in lawful intercept hardware backdoors across the entire cell phone network and pstn were compromised by “the Chinese”.

FaceTime audio, signal calls and perhaps WhatsApp use encryption in transit, so those backdoors don’t affect them. I don’t know about other data calling methods.

Air is my go to piracy vpn. Their app is garbage, use the config file generator instead. Air is my go to piracy VPN because it is a piracy vpn service. I would not use them as a shield from any sort of serious threat.

I use windscribe for stuff that doesn’t matter like bypassing geoblocks. I don’t trust them, their abilities or my ability to limit my own exposure to their malice, compliance or incompetence. It’s a confusing service.

People are suggesting ivpn and I have used it. It’s a downgrade from mullvad in every way but it might be safe. I can’t say because it hasn’t been tested in the same way.

I use mullvad when it actually matters. It’s really hard to screw up and they have the best app of any vpn service I’ve ever used.

There are a lot of people saying why they would want to move away from mullvad, why do you? What devices and operating systems do you use it on? How do you pay?

I wouldn’t use a package that does that because it breaks the security of proton, but tbh it’s email who cares.

As far as that package in particular who can say.

From a more 10,000 foot perspective: if you have to ask on a public forum if an application you give access to your secure email account so it can copy and paste contacts into your os address book is safe it’s probably worthwhile to figure out what you’re trying to do and under what constraints.

Were you able to achieve your desired results?

No you don’t have to reinstall. If you didnt do disk encryption you can just boot from a usb, chroot in and passwd <username>

Your vpn question is too vague. All your computer support request posts are too vague. What vpn app do you want to use?

In my experience the only app that was worth a crap on Linux was mullvads and maybe nords but it’s been a while on that one and my expectations have risen a bunch since then. You’re usually better off downloading the wg conf files and using wg-quick up.

I should tag myself as a bot, that would be funny.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that if they had a lockable bootloader or sandbox they’d be saying so.

Would be nice to be wrong though…

Whomst is the “they” in this reply? Did you mean to reply to me?

Building and loading your own apps for tvOS isn’t hard but the instructions are always written for Xcode in its native environment (macos, formerly osx of xcode fame). You may have no problem setting up a vm for that, already have some device that runs macos natively or run into an infinite amount of roadblocks that you can’t surpass.

In the last case be careful what insane unofficial smarttube app you settle on.

You could also, and I wasn’t able to come up with a better way to put this because I’m not very smart so apologies if it seems like an attack, not watch youtube on the tv.

If you want scrollwork you use a scroll saw. If you want molding you use a router table.

If you want to make some other distro look like Omarchy you use an llm.

The distro of which youre trying to duplicate the setup you had is very ai forward. If youre trying to do something the omarchy way that would be using ai.

I do whenever possible. If you’ll remember, I replied to the ops query about why wayland is the way it is.

A better question is why are you replying to me over and over again asking circular questions?

I already answered that. I don’t think wayland should exist let alone be fixed and even if I wanted to I described the development environment around it as sclerotic and sycophantic.

What are you trying to say here?

It clearly has a serious problem that the op is experiencing. Why not help the op instead of dismissing their concerns? It really seems like you’re trolling or at least engaging in bad faith here…

Back in the hexbear days I thought maybe the fediverse should abandon the “Reddit model” of threaded discussion with voting.

The problem wasn’t just the moderation or people in charge, it was the structure of the system.

So people trying to use it could more easily do so.

Because you believe in the principles behind it and want to bring them in harmony with the ops problem.

As an action in support of the open source principles you espouse, improving the commons for no other reason than your empathy and love for the human spirit!

Because you’re fine with wayland.

The op is flailing, trying to use the system you’re at the very least fine with but I now suspect you feel a certain affinity towards but they can’t. They can’t use wayland unless you help. Their various windows are shuffled on top of one another and require the use of a mouse to switch between. You could be helping the op instead of trolling. But you’re not.

Why are you not helping the op, umbrella?

You have to take some extra steps, it’s not just “click button -> success”, but it’s not too hard.

Perhaps you’re the target audience for the many unofficial smarttube apps in the tvOS store.

I don’t want to fix wayland. Wayland is bad.

Even if my heartfelt love for the op overcame my revulsion for wayland I would not put any effort into fixing this issue because the structural problems with wayland make it a battle with an entrenched system of powerful organizations with skin in the game and outspoken users looking for a fight as opposed to a simple pr.

Think for a second about the context of what you are aligning yourself with in these replies to me: wayland, a collection of protocols and apis in a trenchcoat, doesn’t have a standardized one for alt tab. That’s not because of a cabal of stereotypes rubbing their hands together and laughing over a meeting table shaped like the Mercator projection, but because the wayland devs abdicated responsibility by not making a reference implementation and that left space open for anyone who wanted to to stake their claim.

Now rather than looking at the design and deciding that we need 12 foot posts to support the back side of the building as the land slopes off we are at the mercy of whatever the supplier brings to the site today.

Why would I volunteer my time to that? Why would anyone?

It’s preconfigured arch that’s ai-forward.

At a time when a massive fraction of the open source world is thrashing around trying to figure out how to align themselves to ai that stands out.

E: people on lemmy hate it because the creator has incoherent European migration politics that come to the opposite conclusion of their own incoherent European migration politics.

Wait…

You got banned because you were spamming Reddit posts and now you want to upload video?

E: lol yeah that’s what’s happening here.