While this will happen eventually, and circumvention takes skills, it is fundamentally possible, for motivated individuals.

In Germany they won’t cut off your Internet connection. They’ll send you a cease and desist for a few thousand euros.

Just use a VPN then.

Haven’t seen any age verification in BGP.

To be fair, this already applies to any baseband blob.

Thanks, it is enough for me.

Yes, when I buy books on Amazon it’s the dead tree kind.

Yes, KOReader and Librera FD are two applications I use currently.

I’m limiting myself to only open source applications on the tablets. Strictly nothing from Play Store or Aurora.

No, you could never buy books on Amazon, only rent them. Calibre with DeDRM plugin was a poor way to liberate them, given that formatting in libre formats was often worse than the original.

I stopped doing that and ingnored the Kindle ecosystem in general. I tried a Kobe reader with .epub books from diverse sources but I mostly use tablets (LineageOS and GrapheneOS) to consume content these days. The reader apps are not that great there, sadly.

Just use NFS then.

Oh look, another one who’s brain has been melted by propaganda.

That’s a very unique fingerprint he’s got.

Reluctance to stop dealing with Russia is a single positive in the list.

No, Revolt checks neither of my boxes unfortunately.

End to end encryption between clients (also for groups) seems to partly address the issue of a bad server. As for self-hosting, any rented or cloud sevices are very vulnerable to an evil maid. So either in-house hosting or locked cages with tamper-proof hardware remain an option.

What’s the protection in the clients assuming compromised infrastructure, like e.g. in https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/ ?

It is entirely insecure.

So what’s left? Jabber?

No use cases for this so far.

Mobile service quality is defined by the baseband, which is an immutable blob to the OS. I phone rarely and currently use my old LineageOS phone for it.

I’ve got a support case for my Pixel 7a open due to potential battery issue. If I return it I will buy a different, bigger (6.7") Pixel model. My new Pixel tablet is doing fine so far.