Comments by "Misty Culous" (@mistyculous9644) on "Rob Braxman Tech" channel.

  1. you can always sell it, or if you just bought it less than 30 days ago you can return it to the store for a refund. Tell them it tracks you too much!
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  2. Free VPNs are useless, because if you're getting a VPN free, then YOU and YOUR DATA are the product. To run a VPN is expensive.
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  3. Consider installing Brax.me app, Rob's social network...and to show your friends how to use Brax to message each other more securely. Or for messaging that takes a bit more EDU up front, have your friends and family use XMPP (there's a chat on Brax.me for that purpose.)
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  4. Actually, Rob's solutions don't include having the interest of "three letter agencies" who have a reason to target a particular person. Those people need to take 'way more precautions than a VPN, etc. that Rob suggests for us to escape being targeted by ads.
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  5. Get the BraxVPN router also - you can connect unlimited devices that are protected by the VPN and that BraxVPN router only counts as one device out of six total.
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  6. I did exactly what you did when San Francisco made their bridge cashless - and they sent me a bill - which did NOT include an extra charge. Probably now it would, but ten years ago when they originated the "new payment routine" it didn't.
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  7. better than Zoom for privacy is jit.si - it's easy to use for others by sending a browser link. Check it out.
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  8. Rob hides his phone number, LOL
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  9.  @michaelconn1876  sell it and get a de-googled phone that doesn't report back to the Mothership. You cannot "de-Apple" an i-phone, unfortunately.
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  10. As a perk on Rob's Patreon, there's a TOR network. It's slow, but absolutely secure.
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  11. You might want to come to Brax.me (Rob's site) and ask some of the other people there your questions, (the people with badges that indicate: Trusted Advisors.) They have the time to start you out on the rudiments, Rob doesn't. You can also go through Rob's "privacy" collection on his channel. Basically, Rob has educated many of us, who started from nothing just like you, by his weekly videos. You can also randomly binge-watch on this channel.
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  12. Rob recommends using a bunch of browsers, as you have been doing - and separate them by categorical topics so their tracking can't cross-reference each other. Check out the term: "Browser isolation" But Rob doesn't prefer some browsers - like the Opera and Edge and the ones used in China. Of course on laptop there's Libre Office. You're asking about phone text/docu? There's a number of them on F-Droid.
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  13.  @gypsyfoxx  Rob says on his past videos here that all email is wide open. Rob says it's best to use your own www. domain email and to maintain your own servers. (Or to personally know who has access to the servers.)
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  14. I read soon people's chats are also going to be "curated" for relative truth! Enforced by the phone providers...this challenge to retain privacy is going to get weirder.
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  15.  @madeforstreets  Just wait until cash is eliminated... coming soon.
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  16. supposedly sometime in October...but who knows what snags may delay that. Meanwhile, a good substitute are the Pixels on the Brax.me site STORE
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  17. As you see more of Rob BraXman's videos, you know he would NEVER be on WhatsApp. We have an impersonator here, LOL
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  18. yes, your assumption that the office didn't read the TOS is undoubtedly correct. It's shameful how many people do not read the Terms and Conditions of service AT ALL - they just click YUP!
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  19. the tricky part is finding others who want to spend their time being part of a "real community" too. Which is even MORE tricky given CoVid.
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  20.  @stuartedge5906  One of the laptops I had bought (a Lenova) made it impossible to install LInux because they had diced up the hard drive to take up, gratuitously, all of the possible number of hard drives allowed. I had to check out which ones to delete that were completely unnecessary in order to be able to have one of them be able to run Linux USB!
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  21. yes, Good Point - the danger of getting the attention of a stalker is a "lack of privacy feature" of this requirement for showing ID.
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  22.  @natek3954  Rob is a learning machine, before there were schools to formalize the content - he's always learning, learning, learning and he never stops learning.
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  23. Is this...because those who learn your language think differently from the way you think, because the way everyone puts together ideas and concepts to learn is shaped by our innate original language?
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  24. Rob's jit.si server has been "repurposed" since this broadcast. He pointed out to me that the default jit.si server is encrypted and pretty secure - just be sure to use a password with it. Of course, your own server (or a server maintained by someone you explicitly trust) would be better.
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  25. See Rob's videos on his channel about VPNs. Basically, it depends on the specific VPN service and how it's storing what sort of data (or not,) how the VPN business is run.
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  26. Perhaps you need to take your own notes that provide a synopsis that you can put together for yourself? If you did this, please post it because those who use your learning style could benefit from it. Not all subjects can be learned in a series of tiny sound bytes. Gaining an attention span longer than a goldfish will really benefit you in the long run, or you will only know subjects that can be learned through the sound byte presentation style.
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  27. Please come to socialize with the bunch at Brax.me - Rob's social networking site that's protected from the rest of the Internet. We support each other and write about stuff we care about to take off the sting. Rob used to play jazz on the piano to sooth us after he delivered this sort of content in live streams, but YouTube barred him playing jazz standards because of copyright.
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  28. This video is still up. But it's a bit tricky to get it as a result when I searched for in trying to find it on Rob's channel, so obviously "hidden" by obscuring it in search parameters.
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  29. Don't put any banking apps on this phone
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  30. So - after you watch all the "beginner playlist" videos, you can send Rob money from Brax.me?
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  31. If you prefer to read, on Brax.me, check out the collected #transcription of Rob's Videos from his channel. As you study, post an outline of your notes in the comment section (on YouTube or Odysee) or contact the person who runs that blog in Brax to offer your study process to the collection. Ask in the "New User Chat" if you can't figure out how to get there once you get on Brax. Rob has stated previously that the problem with writing is that tech changes so fast! In the time it would take to create a written course or book - it become out of date before it was finished!
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  32. Essentially, there's quite a bit of very relevant information in security tech that exists on Rob's channel right here...for FREE. All you need to do is to "binge-watch." On Brax.me, (Rob's social network site he made) we've got a collection of transcriptions too, if you can read faster than you can listen.
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  33. The advantage of Jit.si is it's easier to learn than Zoom was. Yes, I believe you can use 30 people at once on Jit.si Some features of Jit.si are free, whereas on Zoom these same features are paid. I'm remembering that Jit.si has less of a limit on the time you can be on a call with it, for starters.
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  34. Please join us on Brax.me - which is Rob's secure Social Network he designed.
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  35.  @TheJacklwilliams  Let's do some "imagineering" on Brax, OK?
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  36.  @IngaHicks  ...or it's "too much trouble" to do what will work to protect themselves and their kids.
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  37. Come to brax.me and look for the blog room #setup4privacy where some of us talk about exactly how we uniquely setup our computers - the new ones. You're right in that we need something for people who have "inherited" a used computer. You're already ahead that lots of "blotware" was taken off by your ex-husband - so don't be afraid. Just search to find "computer name" and change it to something beside his or your name for starters. I downloaded "Search everything" and found it more useful than Cortana.
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  38.  @BeyondPC  Reminds me of Edward de Bono's quip about native intelligence being "hardware" and one's ability to use thinking skills being "software" that will direct the use of hardware capabilities.
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  39. Just found out about Benadryl & Lactoferrin combo. The Uni. of Florida did a study on Dec. 2021 drops replication of Cvd by 99% once you get it.
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  40. See on this channel a more recent broadcast when he answers your question, titled: "Using phones with no SIM" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzU0NHIBrc
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  41. Try the practice of "browser isolation" first. Using a different, unique browser for each of the MAGAFT. Its' the cheapest and the one action that confuses all of them the most.
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  42.  @here2rock988  Sign up on Brax.me. From the main menu select: STORE. Then select "phones" Then you should see the phones Rob has available in a list. Soon Rob will be selling his own BraxPhone - which will be cheaper than any other phone he de-googles right now. If you've got one of these phones that Rob offers, you could send the phone to him for him to de-google for only $130. (But not very fast return on this discounted service; patience is needed.)
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  43. Helped mitigate people's reactions to use a story to explain my motive before I declared an "unpopular" preference. For instance, without notice, WhatsApp site can change its TOS (Terms Of Service) for business users and can wipe out everything a business did on the WhatsApp site, (especially carefully collected contact lists.) Essentially, you're investing in WhatsApp, not your own business, because the site you're doing all your advertising wasn't yours. Better to put effort into your own domain and use WhatsApp to explain and refer people to your own website.
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  44. Yes, It's as if there's a complete shift of the definition of "business ethics." A friend of mine quipped, "They can do whatever you cannot stop them from doing." Judges can "legislate from the bench" based on public policies which were never passed as a law. If you don't have money, you can't afford to fight for your rights that are being disappeared every day. That's why this issue of privacy is so important - it's one area where we can fight to retain what little privacy we still possess. This "legal lying" has been going on for a really long time, this shift. I noticed this happening right after the RICO act was passed. (1980s) In the USA (Since the RICO act) it's legal to lie verbally. But you can't lie in a contract, supposedly - because lying would invalidate being able to make all contracts. So I now write down statements of what I do and do not permit and get them notarized. I do this so some "Authority" figure cannot lie that I permitted them to do what they must verbally ask me to do. I'm open to other suggestions about how we can "keep our public servants honest." Talk with me on Brax.me further about this?
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  45.  @MissEldira  Enjoyed your reply - thanks! Communicative, articluate intelligence rocks!
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  46. That would only be fun if you NEVER plan to travel to Brazil.
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  47. Key is that Rob Braxman ENJOYS learning and he CONTINUES to learn something else every single day! Plus - of anyone I've ever experienced, he NEVER puts off doing whatever he can do RIGHT NOW while he's thinking about it. He's a man of action - totally!
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  48.  @isaakchuk  nope. Each sort of phone requires very complicated programmer's acrobatics to de-google. Rob doesn't degoogle Samsung phones. The list of phones that you can send him to degoogle is on Brax.me under Privacy FAQ>phones.
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  49.  @terrydaktyllus1320  I thought goldfish paid attention for around 9 seconds...?
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  50. Watch Rob's Privacy thread on this channel - particularly his ideas about "browser isolation." Using all of the different Google services inside ONE browser (why not Chrome, since it's Google?) is the way to go.
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