Don’t have anything political or religious stuff on your phone.

Encrypt and upload those stuff to a Non-US cloud account, then delete them all from your phone. If you want to be extra safe, after you upload all the sensitive materials to a cloud account, make a separate back up of you non-sensitive data, then wipe your phone and then restore. Any traces of sensitive political stuff should be gone, since modern phones would delete the encryption key tied to the old data. Make it look as “normal” as possible. Keep your photos on their, pets, family photos, everything you’re fine with the government seeing (so, nothing political).

And make sure you have your documents, take photos of all of them and back up to cloud. If you were born outisde of the US, the burdon of proof of Citizenship apparantly lies on the claimant. Even if you were born in the US, still have documents ready.

If its non-essential travel, like tourism, I’d suggest just not cross the US border (neither in or out) until times are safer. I’d only consider exiting the US border if you are planning leaving permanently, otherwise, just don’t cross the border.

There are plenty of places within the country that you can visit without getting caught uo with the border shenanigans. (But please do not travel to a republican jurisdiction)

I’m this close to quitting my job so I don’t have to go.

So, this is work travel? Oof, good luck. Have your documents ready and you should be fine.

Act nice, Don’t argue with the border agents, you can’t win a confrontaton with them. If anything goes wrong, your only chance to win is in court (and hopefully, the rule of law hasn’t completely collapsed)

TLDR: Just delete all sensitive data and you can go ahead and consent to searches without worrying, they won’t be finding anything.

BFU and AFU doesn’t matter if the authorites don’t obey laws.

You can refuse all you want, they’ll just jail you for refusing.

The UK already jail people for refusing to unlock their devices. Now with a president of the US who does not respect the rule of law, the same, or worse, will happen.

Just don’t have anything political on your phone, let them search all they want, there’s nothing there.

Keep any such materials on a Non-US cloud account, in encrypted format, without any personally identifiable information on that account. Hopefully you access them through VPN/Tor to make it difficult for them to determine the existence of such accounts.

No, but I had my fingers all over my phone, it felt… good 😏

I mean, its possible.

For example, fascism is described as 38.8974,-77.0374 (2025-01-20T12:00:00-05:00 — Present)

The Microsoft edge browser has a read to me mode

Text to speech vs an actual human professional reading it is like night and day.

Step 1: Place DNA in a blender
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit? (DNA Smoothie)

What’s a streaming platform?

glances at thepiratebay[dot]org 😎

audiobookbay[dot]is right on the megathread/wiki

I refreshed Tor circuit 3 times, same result.

Using ProtonVPN (paid) have the same result.

I’m not gonna attempt it on my real IP for obvious reasons.

I think its fine either way, it’s not like a .mp3 file has a high malware threat. (But I definitely would not run any .exe .apks from an unsecured connection tho.)

Oh well, the protagonists hit the goons in the head, then spent 10 minutes hacking into the systems, I guess they are all dead.

But don’t worry tho, the actual mastermind will always get spared. 🙃

What about getting zapped by electricity?

Is that a death by eletrocution? Or is that just like getting tazed?

Knocking someone in the head is apparantly equivalent to anesthesia in the media

The hate isn’t exactly on the billionaires themselves, its the system.

You chop one head off, another will just take its place.

The entire system needs to be dismantled.

We’ve tricked, we’ve been backstabbed, and quite possibly, OMG ITS SO ADORABLE, LEMMY PET IT 😍

I’ll say ProtonVPN (despite the CEO controversy)

If you ever want to watch Youtube videos, Mullvad and IVPN is gonna trigger websites like Youtube, Reddit, sometimes even Google search engine, to block you or make you sign in.

Mullvad and IVPN has too few servers, its much more likely for a server to get blocked.

ProtonVPN has like 11,000 servers, so even if it doesn’t work on the first server, clear browsing data, close browser, and pick another server. Usually you’ll find a working one within like 3 tries. Don’t let it auto pick the closest one, just randomly scroll and click on a server.

Meh, its probably some issue with the carrier assigning IP addresses.

I occasionally get search results in Spanish and it shows my location as in Mexico, even though I’m closer to the Canadian border. And do not speak Spanish, am not Hispanic, and do not have Spanish in my phone settings.

IP address shows it as near where I live. Not sure what the problem is.

I use a VPN with only like Fennec and a few apps selected to go through the Wireguard tunnel, everything else use a separate Wireguard tunnel. Neither’s exit server is in Mexico.

Must be a bug 🤷‍♂️

Aluminum Foil has joined the chat.

Maybe Depression doesn’t actually exist, it’s the error in the simulation in my character.

Lol I saw the https error and I just assumed the site was a dead link.

Why do they not have https? Isn’t Let’s Encrypt free? 🤔

But anyways, I think I found them, its torrenting now.

Thanks!

Skynet is inevitable.

You must use the Terminators to destory the Terminators.

Law enforcement is “communist” then, lets go abolish the police 😏