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minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down15·edit-22 days agoModern flip phones can often tether. carry… TWO devices?! Like some kind of insane asshole!? the horror
minus-squareBlisterexe@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoI mean, yeah. Why would I carry one device that does everything and one device that does less and isn’t really more private, doesn’t make much sense.
minus-squareVanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-218 hours agoBecause 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.
minus-squareSparroHawc@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 hours ago Toss your phone out of a moving car and get a notebook. The notebook has to be running Linux though. Win11 also tattles on you.
minus-squareBlisterexe@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 hours agoWhat I mean is that flipphones, at least where I am, run on kaiOS, kaiOS is worse than degoogled android for privacy
Modern flip phones can often tether.
the horror
I mean, yeah.
Why would I carry one device that does everything and one device that does less and isn’t really more private, doesn’t make much sense.
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.
The notebook has to be running Linux though. Win11 also tattles on you.
What I mean is that flipphones, at least where I am, run on kaiOS, kaiOS is worse than degoogled android for privacy