I like a joke. That’s why I’m so fond of your understanding of firewalls.

Nobody was talking about Windows Firewall. You are clearly in the “fake it” phase of “fake it till you make it”. Otherwise you’d post your magical custom outgoing NAT rules.

Your initial comment implied that the default firewall rules of blocking all inbound connections was sufficient. Since you’re the one who’s making big claims I was hoping you would enlighten us with those firewall rules of yours.

Many attack vectors happen over your outbound connections. How would a router protect you against those?

Welcome to Lemmy :), you’ll fit right in lmao

Nice specs, nice setup. You might want to add another rainbow sticker or two, just in case :p

In case somebody wanted confirmation. Maybe don’t visit the page with Javascript enabled.

How deep does this go?

You sure you didn’t misread? To me it looks like they allow sideloading Email apps but disallow sideloading web browsers.

From their FAQ:

Can I install my own apps?

Web browsers and social media apps are blocked at the system level. Email and work apps are not offered through the Commostore app store, keeping Callback focused on life outside work and feeds.

Users are still be able to sideload apps outside those that are blocked, using APK installer files, but Callback is designed first and foremost as a calmer, more intentional phone.

So I can receive an Email but if it has a link to a website I can’t click it? That’s just silly, Commodore. You’re doing a fine job being memeable and appealing to our nostalgia. Trying to “protect us from ourselves” like that kinda destroys that vibe. And no, the inevitable custom ROM circumventing your blocks won’t make up for it.

That one wasn’t on my bingo card lol

Can’t load the article but I assume Arch’s rolling release way of doing updates makes this quite the disaster.