I was looking at a pixel fold running grapheneOS. Google is making changes that I dislike and realistically cannot avoid so why jump ship from my existing walled garden into one that’s just now starting to from, with even worse privacy and a business model totally dependent on violating as much of your privacy as possible?

The future of graphene and other third party roms is uncertain but I needed to upgrade my phone. My screen was cracked but usable but once I remove it to replace the battery I won’t be able to reinstall the single piece of glass and by that point I’m halfway to a new phone anyway.

For now, I’m okay with my air, but I know me and Apple are on not going to be together long term. I’m pulling off the cloud and breaking up dependancies one by one so, but as far as phones go, there isn’t a viable option quite yet. It’s definitely coming but it’s not here yet.

We need to break free from both Apple AND Google. Borrowing from Google to make another rom but still being dependent on them to keep your project alive and supported is no longer an option. We need a clean break away from them.

I can foresee a phone-like pocket computer running Linux that doesn’t have cellular capabilities at all. American cell phone companies weren’t crazy about supporting windows phone a many even blocked them from joining their networks. We are starting to see the same shit with Linux phones now. But most people don’t need data everywhere. There’s wifi where people like me actually use it. And so I can see a market for a voip service for phones that lets you use them like mobile landlines. For simple texts, a network of Lora packet radios would suffice and reticulum seems to be up the task of serving that need.

Costs are increasing and our dependance on these devices are changing so not every problem we have with Linux phones will need to be solved by the time that such devices get off the ground. We have options for tomorrow.

But today, the iPhone air was fine for me.

So you request something torrent something for you?

You better eat that entire iPhone. There are starving children building them in china!

This! Teensy has been better for years now. Plus we have ESP as big players on these scene now too. Let them kill arduino. We will adapt.

So they want to sell AI shit buy buying the company that teaches children how to blink an LED. Well, this is bad news for both sides.

Remind me what this does?

I was about to switch to android but ended up with another iPhone because of Google killing the only reasons to use android.

I like my air but I’m still waiting for what I really want. A viable Linux phone.

Set one up as a cache of things you like. Have it fetch things with punch flat and filter out the ads. Then you can watch whatever you want even after Google takes it down for no reason.

Reticulum doesn’t need a cellphone tower either.

Can you hear the fan? If no, it’s probably fine.

I use the term “inference machine”

And why would anyone expect Taiwan to give on this? They don’t benefit at all.

Art of the deal my ass.

Solution “payments process through the system only at the price you posted. If this isn’t done, the ad pointing to you doesn’t come down and new ones don’t go up. You only get X number of posts simultaneously.”

But then we’ve have another app to juggle all the account created to circumvent this so fuck it.

Are they paying for your phone? Are they giving a stipend for your service? Then tell them to fuck off and give you a yubikey.

A Linux phone could theoretically use other networks. You could pipe traffic through I2P or bounce it around multiple network types with reticulum. It’s actually theoretically possible to make a community mesh that doesn’t need cellular at all. I don’t NEED to carry the entire internet with me everywhere. I can carry a device with a cache of stuff I need but for everything else I can just connect to some sort of network to fetch it when I actually need it on demand.

A Linux phone would let you do that. You can explore that possibility. Android and IPhone will never allow that because latency is shot on the alternative networks and they aren’t expensive enough to make a profit off of.

Because they are planning for if people rise up to fight back. It’s not about protecting you. It’s about protecting them.

Meshtastic might not be the best tool for this. Reticulum is more versatile.

It’s happening….

Inciting violence was the reason given for me too. Challenging Nazis is violent to them. Don’t let them normalize this idiocy.

It’s always good to keep your options open. The fediverse has set up guardrails to prevent things from happening here that have already happened out there but anything can fail. I myself have an account on ramble if shit goes bad here. Always have an escape route. Have no loyalty, that will be abused.