Because Android is ran by a capitalist corporation that spies on you 24/7 and seeks to restrict and control their platform.

If I could make it convenient, I’d carry a flip phone and a laptop. I trust both far more than Google, and slightly more than GrapheneOS.

Downvote all you like. I’m not telling any of you to do anything. You want security? Toss your phone out of a moving car and get a notebook.

I agree, and I’m very much for an open Android fork. I think it is a path of less resistance than trying to hammer Linux’s spherical bod into a square hole

I have a Oneplus 6T. Linux phones feel like laptops, behave like laptops, and the apps? They’re the same, nothing is made with vertical orientations in mind, and almost nothing you need for a phone is available outside of scant outliers.

Even with being a complete music pirate with complete, Jafar-levels of control over my collection, I had access to two abandoned subsonic apps, Clementine(vertical, riiiight) and Jellyfin.

Jellyfin on a desktop loads every image every single time it loads, and it does the same on mobile Linux, because it’s the same app. On Android, it caches everything and sleeps itself.

Multiply that by, every app you use.

That’s our workload for Mobile Linux.

One day you’ll wake up to the news that Graphene is ending support at a certain Android version because they can’t get sources.

Your privacy depends on Google allowing Android to be open. It isn’t anyone’s decision but theirs.

It ain’t today. Relax.

It’s just Android. You’re as subject to this as anyone else is, if not moreso.

Modern flip phones can often tether.

carry… TWO devices?! Like some kind of insane asshole!?

the horror

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lmao, this isn’t the politics board.

I equate it like this. I selfhost Matrix and XMPP too, but it’s more to remove potential issues with other instance runners or servers dying before I do. I don’t have 20-50 people to chat with in a room of my own.

If someone watches a video, cool, but I mostly selfhosted it to watch.

XMPP can be hosted over TOR.

Find a yank you can trust and have him set you up a vps and a relay.

Hell, it might be how I fund my retirement.

Who’s to connect to?

blocked by The Great Bigly Supreme American Trump Firewall

Soon we’ll all be the slaves we pretend we aren’t already.

I felt a great disturbance in the fediverse, as if millions of XMPP and Matrix servers suddenly relocated to Mexico and Canada.

Because with Lemmy’s architecture darknet sites could not federate with clearnet sites as the end user’s browser fetches content directly from the federated instances.

Ehhh, that just seems like something someone hasn’t fixed yet but easily could if built for that purpose. No one’s taken a hammer to that nail yet.

A tunnel could exist on each server that relays to TOR and back to the instance, allowing it to federate with .onion instances under an alias or something. TOR is extremely flexible with tunneling and being really specific with what you let in and from where. I could see how it could be tailored to the purpose.

Unless you’re talking about moving completely to the darknet.

There are XMPP servers hosted on .onion.

I see no reason why a lemmy instance, or more, couldn’t also be hosted there.

Into the bunker!

shuts a big vault door with “TOR” written on it

I wish every single thing didn’t get propped up as a paradigm shift into the fucking future.

Crypto and Ai can just exist as tools and not he hyped up to infinity as something they aren’t, but lo and behold, walstreet and the tech oligarchs need new products and “wave of the futures” to dangle over everyone’s face from fad to fad to fad to fad.

“Hey, wait a minute guys. Why don’t we stop with the accelerationist bullshit and make people’s lives better?”

“lol as-if!”

I wonder if it isn’t still just a piss in the wind. All Microsoft has to do is require something propretary and the US government and their customers will just roll it out. I don’t fee like we have the ability to choose with our wallets anymore. If they can’t win fairly, Microsoft will cheat and collude with other companies to make them your only option.

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Just make the account for the one-off situation, store it in keepass and never give them anything more.

The cold method. You get what you ask for, nothing more, like we’re all dead end employees and it’s just another ask.

Make kei trucks popular in Europe.

One-up it entirely and make a ‘thinner’ pickup truck that does comply with EU roads and usurp the Chrysler dogshit entering your nations.

Let the Germans make it.