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  • our team decided to make them mutually exclusive, therefore, at this moment you will not be able to utilize the Killswitch feature and have access to your LAN

    Yeah, I got the same reason when I asked about that issue with Android (GrapheneOS). I didn’t run into this issue on Windows. I don’t recall Mullvad running into this issue, either.

    ProtonVPN has also been the only known app impacting GrapheneOS shipping a DNS leak fix due to “Proton is doing something weird” that other apps aren’t doing. Proton is also convinced they’re programing their app correct and aren’t open to fixing it…whereas Mullvad did when prompted.

    Lastly…if the Killswitch and LAN access are mutually exclusive, why does Proton let me turn both on and not explain it? You’d think if you turned on the Killswitch, it would grey out the LAN access with a note saying you can’t have both. And if you try to turn on the LAN access with Killswitch on? It should pop up with a notification saying you can’t have both with a yes/no prompt to take you to the Killswitch settings to turn that off if desired.





  • graphene OS. However, with the difficulty to install them, most people will choose not to

    GrapheneOS is ridiculously simple.to install. EnableOEM unlocking, boot to fastboot, connect to PC. Then you press four buttons (wait for the buttons to say they’re done) on a browser. Super simple.

    Granted, it’s harder than picking up your phone and using the OEM install, but that doesn’t make GrapheneOS difficult to install. The days of using exploits, flashing a custom recovery, flashing a zip, then flashing another for Gapps, maybe one for a kernel, etc…those days are over if you’re using a Pixel with GrapheneOS.

    https://grapheneos.org/install/web





  • They are expensive

    Sometimes you get what you pay for, and…

    I don’t want to give money to Google

    I get that, but your purchase (the entire Pixel department, to be honest) is a drop in the ocean to their profits. They won’t notice you not buying one at all. You’re handicapping yourself in the mobile security arena (not being able to install GrapheneOS) to take the high ground and not effect a tech giant.

    That aside, if you really don’t want to give Google, buy one from a reseller and not from the Google Store.



  • Firefox with uBlock Origin should always be your starting point.

    Except Firefox is not secure on Android.

    Avoid Gecko-based browsers like Firefox as they’re currently much more vulnerable to exploitation and inherently add a huge amount of attack surface. Gecko doesn’t have a WebView implementation (GeckoView is not a WebView implementation), so it has to be used alongside the Chromium-based WebView rather than instead of Chromium, which means having the remote attack surface of two separate browser engines instead of only one. Firefox / Gecko also bypass or cripple a fair bit of the upstream and GrapheneOS hardening work for apps. Worst of all, Firefox does not have internal sandboxing on Android. This is despite the fact that Chromium semantic sandbox layer on Android is implemented via the OS isolatedProcess feature, which is a very easy to use boolean property for app service processes to provide strong isolation with only the ability to communicate with the app running them via the standard service API.

    https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing









    • The video is a return to the creator’s previous “Top 5 Linux Apps” monthly series, which was popular in the past.
    • The first app highlighted is Boxy, a graphic design tool for creating SVG images and logos, with a user-friendly interface compared to more complex tools like Inkscape.
    • The second app is Eyedropper, a color picker tool that works well in Wayland environments and allows users to get color codes in various formats.
    • The third app is Iotas, a simple, GTK-based note-taking app with Nextcloud integration, focused on basic note-taking functionality without advanced features.
    • The fourth app is Plexamp, an electron-based desktop music player that provides access to the user’s Plex music library.
    • The fifth app is Sigil, a niche tool for editing metadata in eBook (EPUB) files, particularly useful for adding series information to support self-hosted ebook platforms like Calibre.
    • The creator acknowledges that Sigil has some quirks, working better in KDE than GNOME environments.
    • The creator encourages viewers to provide suggestions for future “Top 5 Linux Apps” videos in the comments.
    • The creator provides links to their social media and support platforms, including Mastodon, Odyssey, and Patreon.
    • The overall tone is one of enthusiasm for sharing useful Linux applications with the audience, while also acknowledging the niche nature of some of the recommendations.

    Courtesy of Kagi’s Universal Summarizer.