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Run XFCE and use Thunar. : )

import requests

theUrl = r’https://threatbutt.com/map/’

response = requests.get(theUrl)

print(response.text)

Nokia 2780 is not bad. It runs KaiOS, supports tethering and 4G cell data. As long as you stick to the script on how you use the device it will have minimal privacy issues IMHO. If that is still not enough you can skip phones altogether and get a 4G dongle for your favorite Linux laptop/tablet and just use a softphone + voip service.

SSH and freeRDP are pretty reliable.

Smart phones are a bad idea. A simple, dumb phone to make calls, texts and occasionally tether your laptop, vehicle tablet to for data access are all you really need. Even the dumb phone should have physical switches for the radios and a battery that can be removed without any tools.

We need improved Linux support for power management on ARM platforms. In general Linux on ARM has been good for a long time now. (ex RaspberryPi, Gentoo, Ubuntu)

Where things aren’t so great is the choice in OEMs putting out ARM parts like Broadcom, Qualcomm and Apple. All of whom aren’t exactly open source champions. In a less imperfect world we’d have something like RISC-V with great power management and linux support available in mobile computing SKUs/TDPs.

Thanks for noticing that. I certainly missed the ‘=1’ bit.

Debian testing, then upgrade it as they make major releases. I have yet to have a single Debian upgrade go wrong on Desktop or Server. It is basically magic.

Assuming that:

• your Linux Laptop uses wlan0 for its wireless connection and your home network uses 192.168.1.x for IP space.

On the Linux laptop:

• as root or with sudo – enable IP forwarding and load the change with sysctl -p.

sudo sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 ## updated edit thanks to folks pointing out my typo.
sudo sysctl -p

• if you have ufw installed and running – setup a NAT masquerading rule for any hosts forwarding IPv4 traffic to it.
  add this line to /etc/ufw/before.rules file right after the “*nat” line

:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]

-A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.1/24 -o wlan0 -j MASQUERADE

On the mac:

• set your IP address manually to be on the same LAN as the Linux laptop, but for the gateway address… point that at the IP for the Linux Laptop.

Check your passkeys. You might still have one in the OS credential manager.

This project has never been more relevant in light of the recent acceleration of enshitification over at Microslop. Might be time to donate a few bucks.