“the internet” is a necessity and requirement to function in society. You can’t be denied access to it anymore, it would be disproportionate.

US websites don’t even ask, they just do it behind your back.

What about em?

Motorola or whatever, depends what’s available within budget at the time I need the phone.

Not putting in a 3.5mm jack says enough. They sell Bluetooth earbuds I wouldn’t call that “fair”. It leads to more landfill. Phones with 3.5mm jacks also have BT, and don’t start about USBC singles, that’s more to buy and more landfill when they inevitable break.

On top of what the other comments said, they did facial recognition with tracking. They created an id that was attached to a certain person. When the unit was reset, the same id was applied. People didn’t know this happened, because supposedly nothing went to the cloud or something.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/17/eufy_lawsuit/

I have a Reolink that is completely offline, but they also are under scrutiny for having Chinese backdoors in their newest models.

An other alternative is Ubiquity, but they are expensive. They used to have a completely offline offering, but I started looking at Reolink because Ubiquity started with cloud logins. Things may have changed, so look up more recent, non anecdotal, information.

I think it simply promotes other prime video content instead of product advertisement.

There are 2 open source menstrual trackers in f-droid. They don’t share data.

This is the first thing that came to mind. I used that for ao many years, then went on to Hexchat.

“Purism makes premium phones…” Haaaaaaaaa 😂

Wanted to play a game on my kid’s computer that had windows 11 N or some shit. Couldn’t play because it needed the “media pack”, which in its turn installs everything N stands for. Clown world.

I wonder if people in the US look at the EU in the same way we used to look at the US in the 90s.

Depending on the use case, that can be a good thing or a bad thing

Partial updates are not supported on Arch. You need to use -Syu.