For the OS: Debian
Hardware: a modern thinkpad
You too!
Fair enough - we are agreed at least then that the default android os is awful for privacy.
Then its no longer stock?
Ive recently managed to do this;
Settings> Network & Internet> Hotspot & Tethering> Allow Clients To Use VPN
What I don’t understand though, doesn’t using mullvad automatically set their own DNS?
Stock android is definitely enshitified - but there is still hope with custom os’s
Debian stable + Flatpak
Agreed.
For any (k)ubuntu refugees, do as I did and switch to Debian!
Would flatpak mitigate this?
Exactly the same issue with me, I bought it on Good Old Games when I used to run windows as I love the premise of GOG, a similar ethos to Linux of actually owning software - but steam proton is just infinitely more practical.
I’ve also had issues with brave search on mull, whenever it decides It to check if I’m a robot it says that mull is missing a requirement
Have a look at Linux mint: Debian edition (LMDE)
Fairphone + DivestOS
On the “meta” user profile yes, blocking trackers is more important than hiding my IP for that user profile
Plain ol Debian
not just its origin, but the trackers embedded within:
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/427597/#trackers