When I was in Scotland, I purposely brought an old iPhone that was passed down to me with an EU account to see if Apple will show this prompt in Settings. Nothing ever appeared in the Settings, only the Apple prompt urging you to set up Apple Pay.

Interestingly, when I signed in to Instagram account I only use for our class group chats (to which I rarely write messages because of CC1.0 in force) and had my VPN set to London, no age verification prompt ever appeared. Tbh it was before the Meta settlement, but still.

So yeah, it’s overblown to high hell.

Disable the boot menu and set a password on your UEFI before considering Libreboot.

Nowadays everything works similarly or even better than in Windows with the exception of some professional software like Autodesk Fusion or the Adobe suite.

And why would you do that when you have a PC version of GTA V available on Steam?

I was outside the EU in Scotland. I had the fortune of being privileged enough for the UK Border force to divert us to the ePassport gates so that the only thing I had to show was just my passport and look at the camera.

Same in Thailand, but there we had to go through manned passport control and they also asked for my fingerprints and my passport but they didn’t searched my personal belongings.

In Schengen they don’t even check what you have with you, unless you don’t look white enough and don’t know wtf you’re doing here.

If computers count then a phone with GrapheneOS and a laptop and a PC with a custom NixOS config.

I’d recommend NixOS. Everything just works with a few lines of code (Nix is not that bad, it just takes a lil’ bit of reading).

Why cracked GMaps? If you use the web version in a privacy-respective browser than you’re good. Otherwise I’d recommend you OSMAnd and Mapy.com.

Please don’t put executables to the Git tree. GitHub releases exist for a reason.

AFAIK no IoT device uses Windows, cuz it sucks.

The data live on your eID, which is basically a Yubikey except you can’t save whatever you want on it.

Original page, since I don’t want to paste the full translation: https://meid.minv.sk/?page=frequent-questions%2F#howItWorks

Some countries in the EU like Slovakia also allow you to use passkeys that basically act as supplement to using physical ID card, so that you can use something better like Yubikeys or save it to your password manager.

Just use some OSM provider or Mapy.com. Both are great options.

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Aaand it’s year and something old.

Feeding Google more data is always a good idea…

If irm http://get.activated.win/ | iex counts, then I’m in.

I have Pixel 9a (~400€ new). Look for the latest used device as you’ll have updates for 7 years minimum.

You cant but there is still an option to have a single-use account.

Connect to a trustworthy VPN first (Proton’s fine), then connect through Tor.

Just get a supported Pixel phone and flash GrapheneOS on it. And while you’re at it, install a Linux distribution of your choosing onto your computer(s).