Atemu

And its successor Searxngx-ng

I use xprivacylua to prevent whatsapp from having access to most of the possible software and hardware information to mitigate the fingerprint

That's pretty useless given that WA has your phone number and is owned by Facebook who can identify you by just looking at when you receive messages. You're already identified, there's not use in hiding hardware information at that point and that's barely much of an identifier anyways.

Image metadata is mainly a concern when other people aren't supposed to know where they're taken. If you're sending them to friends and family who know where you are anyways, why bother.

Doesn't matter, as VPN proxies don't significantly contribute to privacy protection when you're running frigging Google Play Services and whatnot.

Unfortunate. That happened only last month: https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server-rs/commit/dc2654917e40fe170886e09ca29d9db866e0ad0a

The main advantages of Signal over WA is that Signal minimises the amount of metadata Signal has access to and promises to not store or analyse the little remaining metadata.

The data (as in: the actual message content) should be similarly secure in both.

No OEM to my knowledge provides BLOBs publicly.

LineageOS instead extracts these from the official ROM.

RE and/or shimming only need to happen when those BLOBs become incompatible with newer versions of Android.

The actual task of a maintainer is to configure the rather generic AOSP/LOS to work with the device's specifics and integrate device-specific components.

For a few simpler examples, it must be configured which of a device's SIM slots (if any) are eSIMs, which brightness values the device's light sensor is expected to return, where the device has a fingerprint sensor (if it has one), the dimensions of the notch cutout and many other such things.

Working proprietary software that respects your privacy is better than not-quite working FOSS IMHO, especially in an OS targeted at regular folks rather than exclusively at nerds like us.

Oh sweet summer child...

That's by far not the only proprietary component in that or any phone.

Sustainability has a price. You're indirectly paying that price for the Pixel too btw, it's just not on the bill.

Scheduling priority on Linux is borderline broken. Nice doesn't even do anything noticeable on modern systems.

While paperless processing is indeed quite intensive, it's not like this is a latency-sensitive task. If it takes 5m to OCR a scan, so be it. That doesn't make it unusably slow.

Emails received via SimpleLogin in Protonmail have the original From: in the headers though:

From: Stack Overflow 
To: [email protected]

The setting you mentioned is only used for these headers:

X-Pm-Original-From: "Stack Overflow - do-not-reply(a)stackoverflow.email" 
Reply-To: "Stack Overflow - do-not-reply(a)stackoverflow.email" 

which affects what it says in the subject line when you reply: