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derkevevin on scored.co
1 year ago6 points(+0/-0/+6Score on mirror)2 children
If you run a google phone* you are cooked anyway in that regard.
I recommend flashing Lineage OS on android. Can run on older phones too, though it requires some technical knowledge.
But even if you do that, never trust your phone to not spy on you, especially for things like activism.
It's only safe when you remove the battery, and you can't even do that on most phones these days u/#clown u/#clown u/#clown
Edit: *Probably any stock/unmodified (((smartphone))) actually.
1 year ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)1 child
GrapheneOS is another great option, device support is limited to the google pixel line of phones though. I recently switch to Graphene and so far it's worked well.
What I liked about Lineage OS is that I could even get it to run on my 10+ year old Galaxy S5. So I have a degoogled phone with removable battery on android 10.
Since it's so old, I had to compile the sourcecode for that version myself on Linux though, which needs about 450(!)GB of space just to spit out the rom at the end 😂
It took me like a week to figure everything out, but was worth it.
One thing to add though about old phones, it could be a bit tricky to find a good battery. I bought like 3 batteries thinking the phone had an issue, until I figured out it's because even "new" batteries have been sitting on shelves for years at this point.
Finally bought an extended battery with a larger case for the phone, which automatically is younger since it's an aftermarket part, and it works fine.
I recommend flashing Lineage OS on android. Can run on older phones too, though it requires some technical knowledge.
But even if you do that, never trust your phone to not spy on you, especially for things like activism.
It's only safe when you remove the battery, and you can't even do that on most phones these days u/#clown u/#clown u/#clown
Edit: *Probably any stock/unmodified (((smartphone))) actually.
Since it's so old, I had to compile the sourcecode for that version myself on Linux though, which needs about 450(!)GB of space just to spit out the rom at the end 😂
It took me like a week to figure everything out, but was worth it.
One thing to add though about old phones, it could be a bit tricky to find a good battery. I bought like 3 batteries thinking the phone had an issue, until I figured out it's because even "new" batteries have been sitting on shelves for years at this point.
Finally bought an extended battery with a larger case for the phone, which automatically is younger since it's an aftermarket part, and it works fine.