If I recall correctly grapheneOS is going to switch to Motorola for their new releases

Everyone knows that if the nebula takes paracetamol during pregnancy it increases the chance of K-type star creation.

I wouldn’t trust a sane person to do a ultra private phone OS.

You need the paranoia, you need to see the shadows move to do it right.

Needing an app through a business to find love is fucking depressing.

AFAIK simplex is the closest we have to perfect privacy.

I contacted my representatives in Spain and they gave two fucks about it, they still positioned as “in favour”.

Newpipe, now signed by Norman Reedus, verification picture and everything!

My despise to ads is so big that if someday ads are completely unavoidable I’ll settle for a system that just blackens the screen and mute the volume for the duration of the ads. It will still be worth it.

It’s true. Having to constantly update some adblockers and ways to evade ads in youtube made me realize shitty youtube videos are not worth the effort and I barely use it nowadays.

Android Debug Bridge. It is a way to control the device via command line, mainly from an external computer. Among other things allows for app installation. It’s one of the main ways to test and debug apps while being developed.

I think they are looking to partner with a phone manufacturer to move graphene platform to other brand of phones.

Specially since it’s unlikely that google pixels will keep providing the spec info and openness that GOS need to work.

Maybe yes. Maybe not. I think from now they won’t push that far, among other things because even developing for android platform would become a burden. Not being able to even test some app concept without a verified signature…

Maybe eventually they’ll go that far. But as of now I do think is unlikely they’ll completely block the adb way.

Anyway many current users won’t go adb. And third party stores will take a massive hit. That’s google’s goal.

I think you could still adb install unverified apps into your phone.

That untill they’ll block that path too.

Also I suppose that you’ll need to adb every update. So apps that would want to go this way should self check updates instead of relying on an external store.

Presumably google is going to block app installation via a google service. If you do not have google services in your phone there’s nothing to block you.

I’m closer to carrying around a cyberdeck than a dumbphone.

I don’t like either sms or phonecalls.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/03/business/marketing-firm-spies-on-you-through-your-phones-microphone-report/

This is what I read.

My guess is some android shenanigans. They go to great lengths to track you.

People called me crazy when I said that the phone was listening through the microphone to track your conversations, until they actually admitted they were doing precisely that.

Android may be doing whatever to track you.

Did you notice that lately it’s happen more frequently?

These things happens to me too, and the frequency have measurably increase in this last year.

I can’t wait for what comes first. The claudication and predictable extended support or the wave of malware paralyzing half the world over unsecured devices.

“Only the thing we are searching for will be searched for”

How do you know if a message has that content without scanning all messages to begin with?

The fuck? Do they think we are stupid?