I’m thinking of getting a second phone to ease off iOS. It has been good for productivity stuff but the closed off nature of the device keeps disrupting my plans. Everything is either expensive or ad ridden. (Except floccus, floccus is awesome)
So far I have read about graphene OS and am quite interested. I really despise google though. Any chance to use another device and put some linux flavor on it? I was playing with the idea of a pinephone but it seems to be nowhere near daily drivable, fairphone is starting at 580 €, volla phone (german) 450 €…
Some people said xiaomi should be rootable. But the amount of different phones is huge. The price range is awesome though. I was thinking sub 300 €/$ would be awesome so tinkering doesnt hurt me financially.
Disclaimer: I dont want to go full hermit mode with no sim and a faraday bag. I respect the opinion but thats not what I’m trying to do. I want to write some small apps for my phone and use it as a computer if needed. Calling, matrix and browser should work flawlessly.
Any ideas or suggestions? :)
It shouldn’t feel odd, because we should have control over the hardware we buy, yet here we are.
We do not have control over the extra “security” proprietary chip Pixels have. Yet these shills cheer Pixels and Graphene every single day.
I didn’t know that, my google-fu turned up nothing do you have a link with more info?
Titan M (and M2 since 7 series) in Pixel phones are proprietary security chips solely found in Pixels and made by Google, a CIA shell company. There is no way to know what they process or do with the data stored in phone storage, and there is no reason why anything proprietary from western Big Tech should be trusted, that we cannot neuter/restrict.
I assumed this was common understanding among privacy folks.