Unlikely, but possible. Ad networks might buy location history data from cell providers.

Bitdefender is not a Microsoft product

The majority of environmental damage is perpetrated by corporations. Individual use pales in comparison.

What are you trying to accomplish with a VPN?

You’ve already got Grapheneos, so the next step would be not using Google play or other Google/Facebook/etc. apps and services.

You don’t even need to do that. You could just blacklist or delete the module.

The game wouldnt work, but you could do it.

If you can root your phone and use an xposed module, maybe. Or the EU forces them. Otherwise, there’s not much option.

It probably gives some useful info. What does it say? Also, what changed between now and the last time it worked?

Interesting. BIOS update? Maybe check through all the settings, or do a factory reset on the BIOS? I have a similar board (H510 something) running proxmox and it works fine.

Hardware? Do they shut down properly if you do it from the console or ssh?

Keep in mind that a lot of countries have introduced ID requirements on stuff like phones due to people like terrorists and drug traffickers buying them as burners.

I think it means in the encrypted state. Still, bad.

Most software has hardware acceleration. AES has been in Intel processors for over a decade, for example.

Probably these: https://usa.visa.com/pay-with-visa/cards/prepaid-cards.html

That’s for the US. I don’t know about other regions.

Window managers are a component of a desktop environment.

Yes. Same use case as any removable drive, but encrypted. And the encryption is system-agnostic, so you don’t need any special software on the system to mount it.

Linus’ tone was disproportionate, but he wasn’t wrong. This could easily have been a compromised account trying to sneak code into the kernel.

Readers: make sure you read the replies. This happened four days ago and has since been resolved.

For some reason my phone ate the “nothing” in “NTFS has nothing to do with the network”. I’ve put it back.

Wikipedia is not a primary source