I have never had anything but a $50 flip phone. And it is for my convince in case of an emergency. I don't need to watch videos, play games or look at cartoons on my phone.
That's outstanding! I wish I could say the same, but my poor sense of direction and workaholic tendencies have made me succumb to the allure of GPS and email at my fingertips at all times. I do not, however, use an Apple phone.
I would love to google my android phone. I would like to use something like the graphene operating system and do whatever else I can to make my technology less addictive more useful and private and protected.
It’s a tall order And I have pushed in that direction a little bit. I use multifactor encryption, any soft keyboard, proton company for VPN and email and calendar. They don’t have any functional apps as far as I can tell otherwise I would use proton Drive as well.
Yeah, it's tricky because the ISP is still the choke-point, and VPN slows the connection down so much. There's also some concern that Proton was compromised a few years ago, and that the FBI (or whoever) put a gag order on them to prevent them from notifying their users.
I'm having a hard time finding it ... The idea was that the creators of Proton had a newsletter, and the deal was that if the newsletter ever stopped being sent out, it meant that the platform had been compromised. It stopped quite a while ago.
In related news, I just heard about this new phone, which claims to be an alternative to Android and Apple. I can't vouch for it, but it does look interesting.
They’re already not doing a good job in the marketing department. If you are selling privacy and freedom you need to be selling trustworthiness and competence.
Instead I do a search and find nothing but an opt in sales (pre-sales at that) page with no information who is behind it or why we should trust them or believe that they understand the problem and are passionate about solving it as well as their structure and plan for accomplishing that.
Listen to Rogan 1768 if you think Androids are any better. Even when you’re offline, they are gathering. They simply upload your data when you go back online again. Apple is bad. Google is bad. Microsoft is bad. Meta is bad. Amazon is bad. Name any good guy. Impossible.
I have never had anything but a $50 flip phone. And it is for my convince in case of an emergency. I don't need to watch videos, play games or look at cartoons on my phone.
That's outstanding! I wish I could say the same, but my poor sense of direction and workaholic tendencies have made me succumb to the allure of GPS and email at my fingertips at all times. I do not, however, use an Apple phone.
I would love to google my android phone. I would like to use something like the graphene operating system and do whatever else I can to make my technology less addictive more useful and private and protected.
It’s a tall order And I have pushed in that direction a little bit. I use multifactor encryption, any soft keyboard, proton company for VPN and email and calendar. They don’t have any functional apps as far as I can tell otherwise I would use proton Drive as well.
Yeah, it's tricky because the ISP is still the choke-point, and VPN slows the connection down so much. There's also some concern that Proton was compromised a few years ago, and that the FBI (or whoever) put a gag order on them to prevent them from notifying their users.
Really?
Incredible. Where would I go to read up on that? Holy crap. 🤦♂️
I'm having a hard time finding it ... The idea was that the creators of Proton had a newsletter, and the deal was that if the newsletter ever stopped being sent out, it meant that the platform had been compromised. It stopped quite a while ago.
In related news, I just heard about this new phone, which claims to be an alternative to Android and Apple. I can't vouch for it, but it does look interesting.
https://www.unplugged.com/
They’re already not doing a good job in the marketing department. If you are selling privacy and freedom you need to be selling trustworthiness and competence.
Instead I do a search and find nothing but an opt in sales (pre-sales at that) page with no information who is behind it or why we should trust them or believe that they understand the problem and are passionate about solving it as well as their structure and plan for accomplishing that.
Oh well.
They still send the newsletter. It arrives in the inbox starred.
Will definitely check it out! Thanks!
Listen to Rogan 1768 if you think Androids are any better. Even when you’re offline, they are gathering. They simply upload your data when you go back online again. Apple is bad. Google is bad. Microsoft is bad. Meta is bad. Amazon is bad. Name any good guy. Impossible.