Syncthing discontinued its android app on the play store.

Easy peasy just 3D print the tools. CPU and GPU fabrication in your garage. 😁

Some food for thought. Vizio made more money selling ads and the data from their customers than selling the actual TVs.

With TVs you are paying to be the product.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/10/22773073/vizio-acr-advertising-inscape-data-privacy-q3-2021

Easy with one card, but it’s a different story when you have multiple cards. Transit pass, loyalty cards from grocery stores for discounts, credit cards for cash back rewards.

Make sure you don’t bring your phone because your carrier will track your location. Also walk with a fake limp, so gait tracking can’t match you.

All modern cars have cellular connectivity. The manufacturer pays the monthly fee. Since most cara have gps built in, they always know where you are.

When you connect your phone to the car via bluetooth or usb your phone will trust the car and hand over the data. Want to see that message on the car screen? Well the car manufacturer now has a copy of it. In real time.

Give fedora a try. It has everything you would need from a modern “vanilla” linux distro and no user telemetry tracking.