There isn’t a comparable service.

If you don’t need what mullvad is selling then there are others out there but the landscape is hard to navigate if you don’t understand what you’re there for and how to choose what you give out.

You just need a vpn. Based on your other tech support threads you need the one with the fewest ways to mess up (I do too). You should try mullvad. If it turns out that you have to shuffle around different servers too often and can’t tolerate being blocked, switch to a geofencing bypass style vpn like nord or something.

Bear in mind I’m recommending mullvad because it’s really hard to use it in an unsafe way, which it unique in the vpn world. If you go with something else you’ll have to make sure you understand the choices you’re making which is often a tall order.

If you want to have a different Android device then your only real choice for crossing a border is graphene, assuming you care about not being detained the maximum amount of time that is legal while they apply celebrite to your phone.

In this circumstance it’s not out of the range of possibilities for dhs to get a warrant (they don’t need it if the place is close enough to a land border or international airport) and search your home or business where you left your current personal phone. They will have the home address from your passport (it’s illegal to not update it!) and will likely have no problem locating your place of business.

The problem with graphene at border crossings is that it’s made the news a bunch lately and an agent could see simply having a phone with graphene as probable cause, especially if you act like a weirdo.

The above is the reason I suggested ios devices. They resist cellebrite and look normal.

If you literally just want an android phone that you can use on vacation instead of your usual one, I hope you find some good input and resolve your needs.

It kinda depends on what your goal is. I tend to point people towards iphones in this situation because they don’t attract attention and can be easily secured. If you absolutely gotta have Android the best choice is a pixel with graphene. You gotta make sure the bootloader and carrier are both unlocked so you can install graphene though, so that’s something to navigate.

You said elsewhere that you don’t use eBay because of their age verification. It may be worthwhile, if you are underage, to think critically about what you’re trying to accomplish here.

No they are not. Famously last year it became public knowledge that the built in lawful intercept hardware backdoors across the entire cell phone network and pstn were compromised by “the Chinese”.

FaceTime audio, signal calls and perhaps WhatsApp use encryption in transit, so those backdoors don’t affect them. I don’t know about other data calling methods.

Air is my go to piracy vpn. Their app is garbage, use the config file generator instead. Air is my go to piracy VPN because it is a piracy vpn service. I would not use them as a shield from any sort of serious threat.

I use windscribe for stuff that doesn’t matter like bypassing geoblocks. I don’t trust them, their abilities or my ability to limit my own exposure to their malice, compliance or incompetence. It’s a confusing service.

People are suggesting ivpn and I have used it. It’s a downgrade from mullvad in every way but it might be safe. I can’t say because it hasn’t been tested in the same way.

I use mullvad when it actually matters. It’s really hard to screw up and they have the best app of any vpn service I’ve ever used.

There are a lot of people saying why they would want to move away from mullvad, why do you? What devices and operating systems do you use it on? How do you pay?

I wouldn’t use a package that does that because it breaks the security of proton, but tbh it’s email who cares.

As far as that package in particular who can say.

From a more 10,000 foot perspective: if you have to ask on a public forum if an application you give access to your secure email account so it can copy and paste contacts into your os address book is safe it’s probably worthwhile to figure out what you’re trying to do and under what constraints.

In that case plan on doing your research into what specific insane unofficial smarttube app you want to use.

Were you able to achieve your desired results?

I should tag myself as a bot, that would be funny.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that if they had a lockable bootloader or sandbox they’d be saying so.

Would be nice to be wrong though…

Whomst is the “they” in this reply? Did you mean to reply to me?

Building and loading your own apps for tvOS isn’t hard but the instructions are always written for Xcode in its native environment (macos, formerly osx of xcode fame). You may have no problem setting up a vm for that, already have some device that runs macos natively or run into an infinite amount of roadblocks that you can’t surpass.

In the last case be careful what insane unofficial smarttube app you settle on.

You could also, and I wasn’t able to come up with a better way to put this because I’m not very smart so apologies if it seems like an attack, not watch youtube on the tv.

If you want scrollwork you use a scroll saw. If you want molding you use a router table.

If you want to make some other distro look like Omarchy you use an llm.

The distro of which youre trying to duplicate the setup you had is very ai forward. If youre trying to do something the omarchy way that would be using ai.

I do whenever possible. If you’ll remember, I replied to the ops query about why wayland is the way it is.

A better question is why are you replying to me over and over again asking circular questions?

I already answered that. I don’t think wayland should exist let alone be fixed and even if I wanted to I described the development environment around it as sclerotic and sycophantic.

What are you trying to say here?

It clearly has a serious problem that the op is experiencing. Why not help the op instead of dismissing their concerns? It really seems like you’re trolling or at least engaging in bad faith here…

Back in the hexbear days I thought maybe the fediverse should abandon the “Reddit model” of threaded discussion with voting.

The problem wasn’t just the moderation or people in charge, it was the structure of the system.

So people trying to use it could more easily do so.

Because you believe in the principles behind it and want to bring them in harmony with the ops problem.

As an action in support of the open source principles you espouse, improving the commons for no other reason than your empathy and love for the human spirit!

Because you’re fine with wayland.

The op is flailing, trying to use the system you’re at the very least fine with but I now suspect you feel a certain affinity towards but they can’t. They can’t use wayland unless you help. Their various windows are shuffled on top of one another and require the use of a mouse to switch between. You could be helping the op instead of trolling. But you’re not.

Why are you not helping the op, umbrella?