• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 months ago

    This is something that sneaks up on you as well. And all that started a few years ago when I finally decided to get myself my first smartphone and tried to optimize data usage and battery life. I then realized that not only some apps and “system processes” were using battery and data when not in use, but that there wasn’t even given a way for me to stop it from happening. I also got creeped out when I moved to work in another building and Facebook started giving me friend suggestions of people who worked there. Location wasn’t even enabled on my phone.

    And now today I have no mainstream social media account, run GrapheneOS on my phone, Linux on my computer and have migrated to almost entirely FOSS software and apps. I have become the crazy privacy obsessed weirdo.

    • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Not a weirdo. It is the only reasonable thing to do. Unfortunately, many people lack education about the true extent of mass surveillance / profiling and the potential massive repercussions that it can have for society à la Nineteen Eighty-Four.

  • afk_strats@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    Edit: thank you for those in reply who helped to “annotate” this meme

    The software pictured are:

    1. graphene os
    2. new pipe
    3. Signal
    4. MPV
    5. libre wolf
    6. KeepassXC
    7. Aurora Store
    8. fdroid
    9. Free Tube

    Bonus. tux

  • caustictrap@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 months ago

    Os everyone here on graphene OS or other linux privacy phones? Or you guys only draw the line when it comes to desktop OS?

    • Evkob@lemmy.ca
      1·
      7 months ago

      I got a Pixel specifically to install GrapheneOS on it after going on a huge FOSS/privacy kick last year (coincidentally around the same time I joined Lemmy…)