There is Open Contacts which also acts as a dialer if you want it too. It creates its own database which could be useful if you don’t want other apps to have your contacts.

It works fine, I use that or Koler

They actually did that with the SimplePhone. Last time I looked the pages were down but I know I archived them on the wayback machine.

They made lots of promises, including that a downloadable ROM would be available, the whole thing quickly crashed and burned.

Reddit had some pretty extensive threads about it. The whole thing seemed like a grift (it was) and convinced me to dump all their apps.

Anyway, if this is something you want to do you could check those threads, I know people linked to the phone they were using (from Alibaba) and the source code was on Codeberg iirc.

Did you look in about:config ? Maybe the flag for Pocket is there but turned off.

I’m on mobile now otherwise I’d check

Wired is soft paywall too. Clearing cookies works

That would be interesting to see whether people can tell a difference, and more importantly if they care.

I can tell stevia, it tastes like metal. Like Brussels sprouts, a bit different though.

Sugar vs aspartame, has a different mouth feel. Aspartame is also metallic, but not as much as stevia.

I don’t use Brave, but I did read that post because I am interested in how they are handling this. It’s worth reading for that.

Bad news, they’re in Dubai. They’ll never see jail.

That’s a great read, can’t wait to get the book.

March 15, 2024  Investor Report

Maybe you are looking for https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.maps/ from divestos.

Lufthansa subsidiary Swiss said in a May 15 statement that it has modified all its 777-300ERs with sharkskin technology over the past one-and-a-half years.

https://aviationweek.com/mro/aircraft-propulsion/lufthansa-technik-targets-aeroshark-application-other-aircraft-types

This is from just a few weeks ago

No, I do not. It is possible to get around without GPS, has been for millennia. I don’t need it, don’t want it, if you do that’s fine.

That would be a bonus for me. I never use it.

Hmm, I’ve never had an issue with it. Orbot itself sometimes has problems, but even that is becoming rare in my use.

Yes, Tor can be set to start on boot, and there is a run all traffic through Tor setting. I’m pretty sure I remember one time when Tor failed during a session and things still worked though. With RethinkDNS this does not happen tough. When Orbot loses connection, quits, whatever, RethinkDNS will still send it traffic (if configured to do so) but it will not leave the device because Orbot is not running.

Like I said, I really prefer RethinkDNS

I prefer the RethinkDNS firewall as it is more granular in what it can block. Say you have the Wikipedia app, you can block intake-analytics.wikimedia.org and still allow meta.wikimedia.org

InviziblePro can be setup to start on boot. DnsCrypt, Tor, and I2P can all be toggled individually in the settings.

I used it previously then switched to RethinkDNS.

I like the blocking abilities and the logging more with RethinkDNS. I never used I2P so that was moot for me.

With RethinkDNS I can pick the Hagezi blocklist and No Facebook, as an example, quite easily. I can also individually block domains and IPs. Dnscrypt doesn’t allow that much precision.

It also has features like allow/disallow only on WiFi or data, block apps not in use, block all apps when device is locked, plus a bunch more stuff.

It integrates with Orbot, but Orbot must also be installed.

Really I can’t say anything bad about InviziblePro, I prefer RethinkDNS, you might not though.

Developing countries. When I lived in one a few years ago I got a Nokia brick phone the same as I had around 2002, it went 5-6 days on a charge in a place with ‘random’ electricity.