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> 90% of it doesn't work Sure, but 50% of what a smartphone does are anti-features anyhow. Maybe having to drop to CLI a few times a day is better than being
by nix0n 6y ago
> 90% of it doesn't work
Sure, but 50% of what a smartphone does are anti-features anyhow.
Maybe having to drop to CLI a few times a day is better than being spied on, for some people.
- jbob2000 6y agoI wouldn't call what smartphones do "spying". But if you're already at a place where you consider these devices adversaries, then sure, cutting off your nose to spite your face is the right move.
- criddell 6y agoA smartphone by its nature is a surveillance device no matter what operating system is on it. As long as the cellular radio is on and you are connecting to towers, your location is being tracked.
- fsflover 6y agoThat's why Pinephone and Librem 5 have the killswitches.
- criddell 6y agoYou mean airplane mode? I think most phones can selectively turn off the cellular, wifi, and bluetooth radios.
- fsflover 6y agoNo, I mean hardware killswitches. https://puri.sm/posts/lockdown-mode-on-the-librem-5-beyond-hardware-kill-switches/ https://puri.sm/posts/lockdown-mode-on-the-librem-5-beyond-h... https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#Killswitch_configuration https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone#Killswitch_confi...
- necrotic_comp 6y agoOr even just writing shell scripts. Writing a whole android application for what would be a 10 line python script is a pain that I don't even want to think about.