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🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://f-droid.org/ - F-Droid homepaage https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid/ - F-Droid package https://www.sisik.eu/apk-tool - Browser APK analyzer https://forum.f-droid.org/t/cannot-install-f-droid-invalid-package-using-profiles/16122 - F-Droid forum post 1 https://forum.f-droid.org/t/why-does-the-f-droid-website-nearly-always-host-an-outdated-f-droid-apk/6234 - F-Droid forum post 2 https://hub.libranet.de/wiki/and-priv-sec/wiki/apps - Android apps https://grapheneos.org/features#install-available-appss - GrapheneOS install available apps feature Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ It’s good practice to document answers to frequently asked questions, as it allows other users to reference them. For example, I’ve been asked multiple times through email and video comments why a user is unable to install F-Droid in another user profile. To avoid answering these questions individually, I decided to make a video explaining the reason behind this issue. To demonstrate the process, a user can go to f-droid.org on their Android device and click the “Download” button on the home page to download F-Droid. Once the download is complete, they can install the APK. ...

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HKGGPLR - Western Digital 250GB WD Blue SN570 NVMe https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08G14NBCS - ORICO M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure https://www.hackster.io/news/meet-the-new-raspberry-pi-4-model-b-9b4698c284 Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ In today’s video, I wanted to cover the hardware components on the Raspberry Pi. Understanding what you are working with is helpful and I find it impressive what they have managed to cram on this circuit board. Towards the end of the video, I will suggest an upgrade if you plan to use it for full-time hosting. On the top right, we have a gigabit Ethernet port, which supports true gigabit Ethernet speeds. The Ethernet transceiver chip on the Raspberry Pi allows you to achieve full gigabit speeds of 1000 megabits per second, compared to the Raspberry Pi 3, which was limited to 300 megabits per second. Below the Ethernet port, we have two USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports. On the side view, we can see the Ethernet port in the center and two USB 3.0 ports (which have blue inside) and two USB 2.0 ports (black) on the left. Below the Ethernet controller, we have the USB controller chip. On the previous Raspberry Pi 3, the Ethernet and USB controller were on the same chip, causing the limitation of 300 megabits per second on the gigabit Ethernet interface. ...

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play - Sandboxed Google Play Documentation https://youtu.be/hx2eiPTe7Zg - Sensor & Network Permissions https://youtu.be/WjrANjvrSzw - Storage Scopes Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ I am upgrading to the Pixel 7 and after nearly two years of using Graphene OS, I have decided to leave the stock Android OS installed on it. Let me be clear, I did not want to do this, but I figured in order to offer a fair comparison between stock Android OS and Graphene OS, I should probably test out the stock OS and see how it is. My first impression with stock Android OS is that it has a very friendly setup. It wants you to log into your accounts to sync your settings and it comes with a ton of popular apps installed, as well as the Google Play Store, installed by default. I am speaking objectively for someone new to the OS, not from a privacy or security perspective. The whole initial experience was very welcoming. To keep things equal in my testing, I am going to be using the Play Store on both OS’s by signing in so I can download apps. I also wanted to try and embrace the stock Android OS as much as possible to see if there were any features I might miss. ...

🎥 Video Link Supplies needed Raspberry Pi - I purchased the Raspberry Pi Model B (4GB). If you can afford it, try to get 2 (1 for a backup). Micro SD Card - I went with a 64GB High Endurance SanDisk card (linked below). I would suggest buying 1 extra. External monitor - this isn’t required, but it would make things easier to see the display out from your Raspberry Pi. You can use it without a monitor, as long as you know how to find out the IP address for SSH. If you want to use a monitor, you’ll need a Micro HDMI to HDMI cable Keyboard & mouse (wireless or wired). Again, this isn’t required. You can SSH into the Raspberry Pi from another computer. A desktop/laptop you can SSH to the Raspberry Pi from. The other option would be to configured it using a monitor you plug into it with a keyboard/mouse, and you wouldn’t need access to another computer. Ethernet cable if you’d like to use the Ethernet port. It also supports Wi-Fi. Links referenced for video https://rpilocator.com/ - Helpful tool to monitor multiple sites for Raspberry Pi availability. This will be your best bet at finding one. https://store.rakwireless.com/ - I’ve purchased two from here. They ship directly from China and have a heat sink attached. I don’t know if these are knockoffs, but everything looks legitimate. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P3D6Y5B - SanDisk 64GB High Endurance Video MicroSDXC https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08ZY3RR9X - Micro HDMI to HDMI cable Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ...

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118a18a936f13d/3559 - NFT used in example https://etherscan.io/address/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118a18a936f13d#readContract - NFT example Etherscan contract https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeSjSinHpPnmXmspMjwiXyN6zS4E9zccariGR3jxcaWtq/3559 - NFT example IPFS data (JSON) https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQHfJJiCuHuyAEgm12SmbQ7tzDiX3xtYGgzvupj3PEeJp - NFT example IPFS image https://opensea.io - OpenSea | NFT Marketplace https://futurism.com/logan-paul-nft-game/ https://www.wired.com/story/no-one-will-escape-the-ftx-fallout/ https://rameerez.com/no-your-nft-not-on-the-blockchain/ https://medium.com/coinmonks/how-to-find-your-nft-on-ipfs-e51bc5e7c8a1 https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/25/22349242/nft-metadata-explained-art-crypto-urls-links-ipfs https://www.researchgate.net/figure/How-the-BitTorrent-Protocol-Works_fig9_220080811 - Bittorrent Diagram Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ ...

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing - GrapheneOS | Web browsing https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/ - Mullvad Adblocking DNS server https://microsoftedge.github.io/edgevr/posts/Super-Duper-Secure-Mode/ - Microsoft article on CVE data https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium - Vanadium GitHub Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. If you’ve been following my channel for any length of time, then you know that I use graphene OS on my mobile device. My browser of choice is the one that’s bundled with it, which has vanadium. In addition to being bundled with the OS, there are a few other reasons I really like it, which I’ll cover in today’s video on graphene OS vanadium is the user facing browser that’s included with the OS and the provider of web view, which is used by other apps to render content. Now you might be asking what is what view. So as an example, let’s take a look at mastodon. Now there’s a post on Mastodon with a link included with it. And I selected, we can see that the page was opened, but I wasn’t actually taken outside of the Mastadon app to my web browser. Instead, the app displayed the link using web view. So even though you might not think you’re using vanadium, if we select the three dots in the upper right-hand corner, we can see at the bottom running in vanadium. So, that’s what web view is, as the name implies, that lets you view the web vanadium is a chromium-based browser, which means it provides the strongest sandbox implementation available for browsers at this time. Among other security features like exploit protection and site isolation. Vanadium actually improves upon these features, so you get even more protection as compared to using the standard Chrome browser. ...

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/issues/922 - #5 neofetch: Weight of computer https://github.com/liftoffcli/liftoff/pull/178 - #4 liftoff: LAMP https://github.com/liftoffcli/liftoff/pull/178#issuecomment-57727728 - #4 liftoff: LAMP, screenshot of original comment(s) https://github.com/pypa/twine/issues/153 - #3 twine: I don’t care https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123 - #2 bumblebee: erasing /usr https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268 - #1 vscode: Santa hat Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ...

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://brave.com/download/ - Brave Browser Download https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API - WebRTC Explained https://brave.com/privacy/browser/#safe-browsing - Brave Safe Browsing Privacy Policy https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome - Bypass Paywalls Extension Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. So I’m going to be brave here and to share with you my brave browser settings. Before that, I want to make a quick disclaimer, there is some benefit that comes with just using the default settings the browser comes with, you blend in with all the other default installs instead of using a customized browser. Brave is what I’m using right now on my desktop. On my mobile, I’m using vanadium. Privacy and security are always changing. So what you see now will likely evolve over time and change. But this is what works well for me at the time of this recording. In the past, I used Safari on Googled chromium, chromium, Firefox with a bunch of add ons. So take it with a grain of salt, always do your own research and use my advice as a starting point to figure out what’s best for you. And then lastly, as far as security goes, Chromium is more secure than Firefox at this time, which is why I’m using brave a chromium based browser. The only time I use Firefox is when I’m using Tor browser. So for this demonstration, I’ll be using a fresh install of brave on Windows 11. So once you first install brave, you’ll see this screen, I’m going to just click Skip welcome tour, you’re presented with this busy dashboard. And the first thing we’re going to do to start our customization, click the three bars in the upper right hand corner and go into settings. If you already have brave installed on your computer, you can just follow along and go into the settings. So on the first section getting started, I just leave all this set to the default, I don’t change anything here, you can make brave your default browser if you want. ...

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://www.privacy-handbuch.de/handbuch_21i.htm - Firefox Snake Oil - Main article referenced https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/online-trackers-and-social-networks - EFF original announcement of DNT https://gizmodo.com/do-not-track-the-privacy-tool-used-by-millions-of-peop-1828868324 https://www.wired.com/story/browser-fingerprinting-tracking-explained/ https://www.groovypost.com/reviews/internet-explorer-10-preview-windows-7/ https://www.wired.com/2012/08/microsoft-do-not-track-is-good-for-users-on-by-default-in-ie-10/) https://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-stops-supporting-not-track-privacy-setting-163054926.html - Yahoo stopping support for DNT https://martech.org/know-twitters-latest-privacy-policy-update/ - Twitter stopping support for DNT https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761 - Google doesn’t support DNT https://www.macworld.com/article/232426/apple-safari-removing-do-not-track.html - Apple removes DNT from Safari How to disable “Do Not Track” in popular browsers https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2790761 - How to disable “Do Not Track” in Chrome https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-turn-do-not-track-feature - How to disable “Do Not Track” in Firefox https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/do-not-track-setting-in-edge/b3d7b40f-dfce-47f7-b9ab-9d0e940ccf97 - How to disable “Do Not Track” in Edge Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ...

🎥 Video Link Links referenced for video https://grapheneos.org/ - GrapheneOS https://jkuester.github.io/unlauncher/ - Unlauncher https://github.com/jkuester/unlauncher - Unlauncher GitHub https://signal.org/ - Signal https://store.google.com/category/phones - Google Pixel https://youtu.be/B0RVWU_nROk - YouTube Video - I used a flip phone for 30 days https://youtu.be/Vl5OrbsXBI8 - YouTube Video - One Month with a Minimalist Dumb Phone | Light Phone II Review https://www.thelightphone.com/ - Light Phone https://palm.com/pages/product - Palm Phone https://mudita.com/products/phones/mudita-pure/ - Mudita Pure https://github.com/sduduzog/slim-launcher - Slim launcher (Unlauncher is a fork of this project) Transcript Please excuse any grammatical errors. I used a tool to generate the transcript and haven’t had a chance to read through it yet. ✔️ ...