anonymity, privacy, and security are not inclusive of the other and anonymity is not in scope of signal. SimpleX would be a better option if that's your goal, although being in beta still, I can't fully recommend it
zwekihoyy
joined 2 years ago
as long as you have a firewall via iptables or something similar forcing everything through the VPN only, you should be fine I would think.
if not I'll have to change my configs a lot lol.
congrats you're an outlier I suppose. I've only met maybe 5 people that know what Whatsapp is. telegram is marginally more popular but only because a lot of drug dealers use it (they would have better luck with matrix or even signal)
Matrix or Signal only for me. nobody uses Whatsapp here in the states, sms is simply insecure in every way, and telegram has very suspicious roots imo, along with a lack of e2ee and a terrible ui.
signal is the most secure option and matrix is federated making it the most "open" option.
telegram isn't even e2ee, why would anyone recommend it.
i would like to add on to this, do not bring your own device, just simply keep school/work and personal stuff entirely separate. simple as that.
all work and schools that allow you to use a personal device that I'm aware of will require you to have whatever software for surveillance that they have on provisioned devices, you'll likely end up messing up and leaking something private, and it just takes up storage space.
it's the organization's device, they can put whatever nonsense they want on it, just be sure that you only ever use accounts from them on the device. never a personal account of any kind.
the lack of privacy with cards is primarily what is giving you security with them. trust factors will always exist somewhere in the chain.
to be more to the point of the post, though, you can agree with a person's singular opinion without supporting or agreeing with that person.
typically I wouldn't recommend just moving file paths for packages, especially if you aren't sure what you're doing. assuming all you did was chsh -s, I wouldn't worry about it.
I found the "best of both worlds" setup is xfs for root fs and then btrfs for /home.
I shuddered at the mere thought of vim. why would you do that to yourself
this is how you burn potential for future relationships
I've literally never met anyone that even knows what it is, although I thought it would be obvious just based on how people talk that I was speaking anecdotally and not from literal statistics. I come across Facebook messenger somewhat commonly but never Whatsapp.