I use Gboard but have blocked its Internet access, which is possible on Graphene OS.

It means that the hurdles for the national secret service (Verfassungsschutz) to carry out measures of surveillance are lowered.

True but at least they will only get a little slice of all my communications, not all of it.

It’s unlikely that they’re copying all my private messages.

Masochists!

lol who still uses windows!?

You’re welcome. Element’s location sharing feature was the reason for my wife and me to switch as I didn’t feel like sharing my location with Telegram anymore.

Element (Matrix) allows sharing your location, even your live location. Use the original Element client, not Element X, which does not have that feature yet.

And their website still looks the same as back in 2010 or so.

Afaik they don’t offer to use a custom domain.

I’m using Posteo and have no reason to complain about anything. It pretty much just works. Few bells and whistles.

Je ne sais pas non plus où se trouve la pompe 1, mais voici tout de même la pompe 8:

There are tutorials on how to block secondary DNS servers when using Pihole. (The one I followed is in German but you can probably use your translator of choice.)

“subsidized” – TVs sold perfectly well before they were flooded with ads. Ads and selling user data just mean more money for CEOs. Always more, MORE, MOOORE PROFIT!

It’s kinda handy if you don’t want to take the time to write a boring email to your insurance or whatever.

So in this case… the sanctions were working like intended?

Oh no, what could the Russian government have done to avoid this!!?!?1

It wasn’t even the cheapest I could get. I rented a .de-domain from dogado.de, because I have made very good experiences with their customer services in the past.

Just yesterday I rented a tld for 2€/year and got it to update via my router’s ddns feature using deSEC. Other similar services are available and I think that many domain rental services even offer their own ddns-like update routes.
All in all it wasn’t that difficult, really. And imo an own tld is much nicer than having to rely on some subdomain of a ddns service.
So far (and yes, that is after less than one day) I definitely do recommend this.

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