The spellchecker by default does (as part of some initiative regarding improving spellcheck or whatever). There is a setting to disable it and another setting to disable telemetry. Disabling both of these effectively makes the keyboard offline apart from things like Stickers and Emojikitchen.

You can also block internet access to GBoard and it’ll work just fine.

If you don’t hard-depend on GBoard, you may wanna look into Florisboard and Helium314’s OpenBoard Fork

Especially if you’re not gonna play stuff that the anticheat locks you out from, the experience is great. As other commenters have said, ProtonDB.com has resources for how well games on steam run under Proton / On Linux.

Although, I would recommend Nobara Linux over Chimera OS due to a lack of experience with Proton and other gaming-related tools (as in, Chimera developers’ lack of experience). Nobara Linux comes from the same developer as Proton-GE (GloriousEggroll). Proton is the tool that Valve developed to run Windows games pretty much seemlessly, and Proton-GE adds extra features and patches on-top of it that can help support more games or get the slightest extra bit of performance out of Proton. Nobara Linux extends this concept to the entire OS, with a stable Fedora base that gets a major update every ~6 months.

Nobara also consitently outperforms other Linux Distributions and even Windows regularly.

(This doesn’t mean that you don’t get updates for 6 months, just that major releases, e.g from 39 to 40 happen every ~6 months)

Note that dropping support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 came as part of a butterfly effect of the Chromium project - which Steam depends on - dropping support.

I know.

Not only have I written about this before on related forums, but also have I talked and partially written about the AVBRoot Project and others which bring root access closer to the Android security model.

That’s not what I’m doubting here. I was raising awareness to the fact that a computer physically cannot be truly random. I know that pseudorandomness is enough as we cannot perceive a difference easily.

CSPRNG literally stands for “cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator”. All randomness in computers is pseudorandom. Not TRULY random

Radioactive sources for randomness aren’t really just put into your average household PC or phone either for obvious reasons.

There’s other reasons to use Magisk for this instead, like not having a VPN slot free or wanting to use another DNS Server

PiHole allows temporarily disabling, including a time (e.g "disable for 30 seconds/2 minutes/1 hour) and setting different filters for different users ;)

We shouldn’t judge people for past decisons when new info comes out, especially when that new info makes them change. It will take some time for people to move and find a viable alternative.

I do not intend this to be an attack of any kind, please be more considerate of the fact that changes can’t be made instantly when you have an audience to move.

Well, computers physically cannot be random, they rely on logic

Note that for this attack to work, you have to be on Android 11 or below (or possibly an earlier patch) as by default accessibility services aren’t allowed to draw-over or interact with elements in the settings app unless you explicitly override it in developer options.

This extends to some other areas, like for when biometric/system lock APIs are used.

Late reply, but piped.adminforge.de is my server of choice, with piped.smnz.de and piped.lunar.icu as alternatives

Bitwarden has TOTP in their premium plans, otherwise check https://ente.io/auth

If its an article or other mostly static content, try viewing through https://archive.is or https://archive.org

Florisboard and OpenBoard are good. Sadly the primary version of OpenBoard seems unmaintained, but there is this fork by Helium314 with extra features and bug fixes that’s still maintained.

Additionally these servers are random per-contact, can be changed around and all data and almost all metadata is either encrypted or otherwise protected ;)

SimpleX uses servers, but they’re just relays and due to SimpleX’s design, no single server can figure out who you are or who you’re talking to. By using Tor they also couldn’t band together and fingerprint you by IP.

If you want to see the model explained, visit their website or just ask here, I’m glad to explain how it keeps your contact graph, identity and messages private :)

Good one!

Inform them that privacy is not secrecy.

“Yeah, I know what you do on the toilet, but don’t you still close the door?”

It is important to recognize that Privacy is a human right, and without it we cannot reasonably express ourselves and potentially democracies could be threatened too. With our right to Privacy not always being upheld, we need to take matters into our own hands where reasonable and push back.

Edit: not to mention that anything we do now may become illegal five minutes from now. Nowadays we cannot know.

DivestOS would be closer to what Graphene provides for more devices

As a lineageOS fork it has good compatibility, but the maintainer regularly updates the OS and maintains it with their own hardening patches as well as patches from GrapheneOS