Alright fine, you've convinced me. I'll give LineageOS a try.
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This post makes me want to check out graphene OS when I get my new phone.
You're gonna love it. I switched about 6 months ago, and it has been nothing but fantastic for me.
Sorta feels like stepping back in time like 15 years with a phone that doesnt track you all day.
Feels so powerful to straight up deny all network connectivity to any app, at any time. 👨🍳🤌
Install WhatsApp
That's when you lost me. Either teach your boomer relatives to use Signal, Matrix, or, at the very least, Telegram. Otherwise, let them reach to you via Facebook which you open only in web browser in containerized tab.
I think you understimate boomer relatives intelligence =) Some simply can't be taught.
Otherwise, let them reach to you via Facebook which you open only in web browser in containerized tab.
I just hire a rando guy from a different country to become me on Facebook. Then I have them email screenshots to a different email. A separate person gets those emails and prints them out. They mail it to a PO box, which gets picked up by a whole different person. The handoff happens at 615pm at the subway on Broadway Ave.
I open the handoff. It's pictures of my niece celebrating her 6th birthday. I give the guy a thumbs up. He takes that thumbs up, translates it back to paper and reverses the whole process.
It takes 6 weeks for me to respond. But that's the price of security.
If your friends and family are willing to use those apps over WhatsApp than they love you in a way I don't really believe is possible.
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>reboot to bootloader -> unlock -> you will use your warranty -> yes
It's fucking outrageous that companies are allowed to blatantly lie like that (you will not, in fact, lose your warranty -- Federal law doesn't allow it). Every company that displays such a fraudulent message ought to be fined by the FTC, or worse.
ought to be fined by the FTC, or worse
Fines don't work, just start throwing people in jail already.
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GrapheneOS. Easy, quick, reliable.
Yeah you have to buy a phone by Google but I don't mind giving them money to reward them for making a decent phone with an easily unlockable bootloader that lets you do what you want with it, even if it means denying them your data. This is extremely atypical from a company like Google so I want to encourage that kind of behavior.
As someone that's run older pixels on LineageOS for years now (no gapps, just fdroid), what benefits would I be getting from using graphene? I appreciate the hardening they do but my needs are fairly simple.
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All that trouble yet you still install whatsapp. Make them text you by sms
SMS is literally unencrypted and contents of messages stored on your cell provider’s servers. At least WhatsApp is E2E encrypted (even if the metadata isn’t- just use Signal).
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Signal
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Find out too late that this exact sequence of events identifies you as Hamas to Mossad and your phone explodes.
Yikes
Literally me with Calyx OS
Me with most cheap tech I buy. Got a Amazon TV for like $200, and immediately went to blocking it.
At this point, I find a rom I like then shop for a new phone in the supported section
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