Tootfinder

Because I prefer to own my own data, I've just had to struggle through the phone setup routine of installing fdroid and then the passwordstore app, then getting my pgp key onto the phone and generating a GitHub token. All this stuff should be easier for normal people, even I had a moment where I looked at the phone and went "how do these pieces go together, again? ..."

Nothing won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to RAM prices (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/06/19/nothing-cmf-phone-ram-costs/

Nothing CMF Phone is a RAMageddon casualty, memory now the most expensive component
Nothing’s CMF Phone series has released two models thus far and, at least for now, won’t be getting a third,...

So much is going politically right for Democrats these days.
Trump’s approval is down,
gas prices are up
and an unpopular war with Iran drags on.
But dysfunction and debt inside one of the party’s key institutions
— which is getting crushed in fund-raising by its Republican counterpart
— are creating rising anxiety for top Democrats.
The Democratic Party is so short on cash that leaders at its headquarters have undertaken a new gambit to mask the se…

Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party
The Democrats should be well positioned to make gains in this year’s midterms. But inside party headquarters, every week brings paranoia, worries about money and, on occasion, emotional eruptions.

I've got a bit better at sleeping lately.. What seems to have helped:
- focusing on sleep efficiency in terms of time in bed vs sleeping.. Getting out of bed if I find myself lying awake. This was really tough for a couple of weeks but now I associate bed with sleeping.. No doing puzzles on my phone to try to make myself tired.. No thinking about work problems to try to solve in my sleep. Phone strictly not in the room at all. The result is I have loads more time out of bed, hours …

Looking at maybe 400k UK phone lines not getting switched to digital before the 2027 deadline?
https://broadbandswitch.uk/reports/the-last-dial-tone/#:~:text=Thirty-three weeks, three trajectories

The Last Dial Tone | Report No. 26 | BroadbandSwitch.uk
Independent analysis of the PSTN and WLR switch-off, the 31 January 2027 deadline, eVAC, and what to do now.

Podcast: The Government Wants to End Anonymity on Phones https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-government-wants-to-end-anonymity-on-phones/

So that was "interesting". Mrs LT was trying to use her phone to look at the Odeon website to check some film times, but kept getting blocked by Cloudflare.
We spent a good 15 minutes checking our network, DNS setup, all sort of things. Then she remembered that her Pixel phone had updated fairly recently and we discovered that Google had automatically switched on their own VPN.
And Cloudflare, for some reason, had classified any requests from Google's UK VPN exit nodes as being used by bots or scammers.
Anyway long story short: Google VPN off, Proton VPN on, all is well again.