Granted, I was mostly shit posting. But in all seriousness: wouldn't Rust prevent that kind of exploit by inherent design?

Due to Rust’s ownership semantics, when we free a value, we relinquish ownership on it, which means subsequent attempts to use the value are no longer valid.

https://stanford-cs242.github.io/f18/lectures/05-1-rust-memory-safety.html

There is a big blue button that would allow them on the respective site

And that kids, is why we are pushing for Rust in the Kernel

Buy a last gen Pixel used from a private seller maybe like on eBay and install GrapheneOS OS on it. If you don't want to mess with a lot of stuff, you can use the main profile for foss apps and open another user in which you install sandboxed Google Play services and gradually switch to foss apps more and more

Anything and everything else is objectively worse than an iPhone

Only he kernel modules, not the whole driver like AMD

"Don't theme my app" is all about distro defaults. No one is arguing against user modifications as long as the users don't expect any official support for their custom stuff

My SIM provider has the option to not even route unknown callers to my device. Not that I get any, but just in case, even if it is not that common in Germany.

What some family of mine had to go through was social engineering harassment calls with some BS reasoning to get them to say "Yes"/"I agree" or something like that

I would really recommend you take a look at ProtonDB when it comes to troubleshooting like that, it is one of if not the best resources for that kind of stuff

Sounds more like a Freedombox problem for not supporting one of the best ways to run sevrer software ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They joined that open washing company? ughhhh

Proton-GE is a 3rd party tool I always use when a game doesn't start with a Valve Proton version

Vanguard literally always spies on your PC from a most privileged location