Decision maker in terms of how they want to pull your teeth out

Dentist is responsible for fixing teeth, if it does not involve teeth and they dont know about it, they are fine for not knowing

No not the actual dentist but his manager

Yes and that shouldnt matter because you are not supposed to use these phones for anything other than calling when you need someone

Cookies are some data that websites store in your browser, its text arranged in key-value pair, it could contain anything.

But putting an ip address in cookie does not sound something anyone would wanna do as I dont know the purpose of such a thing

This could also refer to some ISPs that give free internet or cheap internet paid by ads, if such a thing exists already(if not it will be a thing in a few years)

These flip phones dont have anything other than a SIM card

You should consider buying a flip phone and only put in SIM card when you need it, assuming you can acquire SIM card without your name on it where you live

Have you considered if secure deletion will work as expected when using SSDs or SD Card? I heard the only way to actually delete something is to fill it with gibbirish and format it

This is atleast positive

Unrelated but maby related to an extent.

Everyone I know uses Truecaller. Its a battery hog and a pile of horse manure. Except, one of my friend pointed out someone had added my number in Truecaller with some extremely ridiculous name that I had to register and change my name.

I use KeepassDX and Aegis, I use Facebook, Viber, Whatsapp and Gmail to communicate, use Linux, also use Lemmy as is apperant from this very comment. I have uBlock Origin installed on Firefox as the main browser, I also have Protonmail as my main email, also I use simpleLogin. My search engine is DuckDuckGo. I also use ProtonVPN and used to use Opera VPN.

I am from all of the above tiers

People in here are either wannabe snowden or sell some grass

I have heard of drama involving Graphene OS. I just know there is some drama involving GrapheneOS, I dont know who did what or care who said what, maby its related to that?

The answer is absolutely yes

Keep in mind that RSS is just some XML sent over HTTPS connection. For anyone outside, it will look like gibbirish, they can say you are requesting and getting some things from that particular site but not what it is.

There are no shortage of encryption software in the market, use one, any one, Veracrypt is fine, so is million other software for this.

Use a note taking app like Joplin, Obsidian, though not open source is just as fine. Sync its data folder to the encrypted vault created with encryption software of your choice, and you are good to go

Browser duhhh

Are you on linux and are describing this issue where VLC cannot be reopened after exiting without logging out and logging back in?