Of course it’s not too late, it only appears harder because in school we spent a lot of time during the week with many people the same age. But only a fraction of that time is needed, all it takes is being around people and talking to people.

Many on lemmy rightly complain of the lack of “third spaces” nowadays in many of the richer countries (you said college I’m guessing US or UK?), so for example in many places it’d be a bit weird to just go to the pub alone. But you can also just go alone and do and enjoy whatever you want, it just takes a bit more confidence, the embarassment of it usually wears off with age for most.

What’s probably easier is joining some semi-regular activity where you get to chat. So pub quiz night, language exchange, chess club, hiking group, etc… are more likely to aid you in this compared to loud night clubs, the gym, or whatever, it’s all subjective it’s still important to do the stuff you enjoy, regardless of socializing.

You’re not wrong at all, the worst part is even the “cleanest” of fuels will need to be refined, trasported (burning more fuel and rubber). If one were to live in the middle of nowhere without electricity or sun or wind or geothermal etc…then it starts making sense. So almost never

There’s also “Open in Whatsapp” which has been around for 5 years, I’ve used it for all this time actually, I stopped giving Whatsapp access to my contacts around the time I was degoogling, plus I keep it installed in the work profile (Shelter), where I purposefully don’t sync my personal addressbook. So this type of apps is very handy for a couple different scenarios:

• you need to contact someone you have no interest in saving the contact of forever (plumber, guy on craigslist, etc)
• you want to contact a person you haven’t talked to in a long while (otherwise you could just search their name within whatsapp) of which you have the number somewhere else

All in all you save time mostly, and potentially give a little less to Meta.

Hi there, what version is your LineageOS? since you mention TWRP which hasn’t been recommended for some years…

Anyway from what you wrote you want to keep the current system installed. On my LOS 22.1 (but it’s worked like this for ages, even on stock roms): you go to Settings -> System -> Reset Options -> “Erase all data (factory reset)”

Or just search “factory reset” in the settings.

Well put, that’s the most commonly experienced anti-feature introduced, another less common one where they have been less and less lenient over the years is geolocation restrictions: people in the past could register with other countries (cheaper) pricing, today most legitimate customers cannot access their content even when traveling for a few days, or they risk getting blocked. Similarly to the region-codes on dvds and blurays, I can’t imagine it really helps sales, but it siloes consumers into country blocks and monopolies tend to like that.

Hi, what do you mean by checking the keys? If you mean checking the downloaded file signature (sha256sum) to make sure of its integrity, this is a different issue.

Anyway the recent signature spoofing problem is explained here by microg author: > Google seemingly has updated their signature checking code. […] This means that all signature spoofing patches need to be updated.

And another comment from the same thread summarizes the minimum versions of various ROMs with the fix included. > LineageOS for microG (fix auto-included from upstream) - All builds from 2024/12/17 onwards contain the fix