Having been using OSM for years now, in Europe, Canada and the US.
On old tablets, this gives you the widest of screens.
Always up-to-date.
Free.
And of course a way to update it yourself, with troll filtering also crowdsourced.

Actually I don't understand why people try something else, outside very specific cases like 'my camper van is 3m high and I want to filter passages with lower height', which, actually, did not work better on dedicated hardware last time I checked.

As it's past one month, in principle access to the full article is open, or really about to be : https://lwn.net/Articles/84544...

Try this : https://www.meta-press.es/
Try it, really. I'm bluffed. At least, with the French / European press here it works spectacularly...
Maybe someone here will explain more than I could...

Now, I see they have a central private curator system. So, actually I won't install...

Answer is the same : provided users are numerous enough, liars will be eliminated. Quickly.
Or, just go buy a paper encyclopedia (if there are some left)

found a kind of English summary :

"That day, August 25, 2015, the event was not: a bear attacked a French anthropologist somewhere in the mountains of Kamchatka. The event is: a bear and a woman meet and the boundaries between the worlds implode. Not only the physical limits between a human and a beast which, when confronted, open faults on their bodies and in their heads. It is also the time of myth which joins reality; formerly joining the current one; the dream that joins the embodied."

There is a book from anthropologist Nastassja Martin where she describes how she was attacked by a bear, somewhere in 2015 in Kamtchatka.
The book is in French, named "Croire aux fauves" ('to believe in wild beasts') ; it is a significant strike, explaining how from being half devoured (years of surgery to recover something remotely called a face, among others) she modifies her view of other animals, and how she thinks now about Nature.
A very, very significant read.
And definitely neither your average kill-them-all not Teddy-bear-love...
Also well summarized in the review Critique, but also in french : https://www.cairn.info/revue-c... .
Worth thinking...

I'd say this product from the German Nitrokey ( https://www.nitrokey.com/ ) is currently announcing
- permanently-updated Ubuntu-Core system (until 2028)
- permanently-updated (separately) Nextcloud snap image.

To me this marks the return of commercial Linux from M. Shuttleworth, which IMHO may definitely invade the market in a few years...

[disclaimer : I'm extremely worried about that, being a Debian user -but I see facts. The guys at Nitrokey were strong and efficient on their encrypted USB keys, they succeded on their small laptops, and now they are overfunded from a factor 15. Unless they suddenly make a terrible mistake that will be a significant step in commercial Linuxes...]

Which is why one should use Jami, or Briar if only small messages are needed.
These solutions exist now. They don't convince because users critical mass is not reached, and the suppressing of the central server prevents storage, which means both sender and receiver must be online at the same time -which is a bother.
But you can get you a Jami and a Briar address now.

At this moment, with the enormous stir around biased whatsapp and the like, there is no doubt the end2end encrypted Signal is definitely and safely started, with a strongly growing mass of users ensuring the critical mass is reached too.

Then the next step is (again) to prepare a switch towards similarly open-source apps, end2end encrypted, but that will additionally eliminate the last criticality : the risk that someone, or some state, stops the central server.
Signal still needs a server.

Jami doesn't, and is a very efficient candidate for this next step.
It already offers almost every end-user wish, from multi-chat video to attachments.
His present drawbacks are two :
(1) far, far less users, so the critical mass is just not reached, and
(2) 'no central server' means no intermediate storage at all. In other words, for your message to reach me, both you and me MUST be online. At the same time.
This may appear minor to 'permanent' smartphone users, but Jami also runs on computers, and these users will probably be pissed off.

So, ... let's touch wood, as they say...

Sorry I don't have mod points.
Indeed, that neither the journalist nor the OP even pronounces these two words just gives a clue of their intellectual level...

What about a phone with one part of the memory encrypted with plausible deniability like the Nitrokeys have in their 'storage' versions?
(https://www.nitrokey.com/#comparison)

more than one page here, "only on your system"...

"error in establishing a database connection". Really, worst possible ad ;-)

it wouldn't be "www.IDon'tLikeTheCurrentGovernment.com".
It'd just be "HereWeDiscussPolitics.com", where there will be a subforum on "I don't like the gov.t".
All of us will be on HereWeDiscuss, and the govermnent won't know who goes to the subforum.
That sounds very reasonable to me.