Comment by dMnFCX
11 hours ago
It's absurd that you have to do this and/or be so careful. But if you live in Russia, China, or another dictatorship, then I understand.
11 hours ago
It's absurd that you have to do this and/or be so careful. But if you live in Russia, China, or another dictatorship, then I understand.
Yep, full agreement here. The amount of hoop-jumping is ridiculous. However, I live in Russia so I have to do all that, plus some more (e.g. the work to protect my own self-hosted VPN after Roskomnadzor issued the recommendation for big Russian online services to sniff out and report user's VPN settings).
I spent two weeks thinking about my new setup on Graphene OS and Windows, but it was time well spent. Before that, my checklist for pre-border-crossing cleanup required about 8 hours of work. With the new setup, I can complete the cleanup in about an hour, and restoring takes even less.