“GIMME UR IDS 😈”

-Sincerely, your friendly neighborhood government 🤗

Mostly: Price

Are you willing to, either: (a) spend $500-$600 for a new Google Pixel? (the 9 that is, I don’t think 10 is ready for GrapheneOS yet), or (b) willing to dig into the second hand market and potentially get not-unlockable phones? (those run rampant in the used market, note that Carrier Unlock does not equate to Bootloader Unlock, and Verizon ones are guaranteed to not allow bootloader unlocking, I’m unsure about other carriers)

(Also you are kinda supporting google if you get a new one btw.)

I personally don’t wanna spend $500 since if it ever breaks, its hard to replace or even repair. And I hate dealing with the used market.

So for me, Graphene isn’t an option.

I went for the cheapest new Moto that has custom ROM support, Moto G 5G 2024 for $140 (carrier variants do not unlock).

I’m basically still testing to see what wouldn’t work, haven’t really be using it as a “daily driver”

I’ve also come across the CMF Phone 1 which is OLED and supports e/OS its about $300

TLDR: Get Graphene if you can afford a pixel or willing to look for a used phone from a reputable source. I personally do not like used phones because I think there’s too much risks IMO, you might assess the risks differently. Other options are Moto G 5G 2024 for $140 which runs both LineageOS and e/OS, or CMF (by Nothing) Phone 1 which runs e/OS and is an overall much better phone, but its more expensive, at $250 for 128 GB and $300 for the 256 GB.

Oh one last thing: Even “New” “Unlocked” cheap Pixels on sites like Amazon aren’t guaranteed to unlock. I was looking at older pixels like the 6a, 7, 7a and checked the reviews and some comments indicate they are locked to Verizon because the reseller didn’t unlock it for some reason, so I’m get the vibes that its unsold stock previously owned by carriers, so I don’t know if they’ll bootloader unlock, even if its SIM unlocked. Where as CMF never has carrier variants, so they all should unlock.

Edit: Also, the CMF phone needs the IMEI added in to carriers such as ATT and Verizon, since they use IMEI whitelisting, Tmobile is fine. For some countries like, Australia they also does nationwide whitelisting. Custom ROMs can break VoLTE, rendering it not work with cell service for csrriers that require VoLTE, Might wanna research about that.

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China is gonna set up some shell company and buy the data the USA-TikTok collects. Its all coming together.

It gonna be tough since I always make references to the same movies, tv shows, and anime, its so easy to link my accounts together.

Separate airgapped device running an encryption app. Type text on it, it spits out a ciphertext, then, use internet connected device to scan the ciphertext, OCR*, then send to target receipient, they also use this same airgap encryption device and they OCR, then decrypt using their key.

*Instead of OCR, you could also use a QR code to have error correction

Tell me how they can ban this? Anyone using a raspberry pi with a battery and touch display attached into one compact thing, is a criminal?

What if we just start using One Time Pad? Can they ban that?

Steganography?

Like seriously, how do you even stop “criminals” using steganography?

So, to Big Gov, here’s my question: Are you gonna ban talking to other people becuause criminals also talk to other people?

Somebody missed the recent announcement 👀

Two phones.

One for everyday life.

The other for documentation of events, activism, direct action, this app mentioned in the post, and maybe even rebellions.

(actually if you are doing a rebellion, you better use meshtastic or some sort of radios, and remember: do not transmit from home)

They also caved into PRC government and they removed the apps that reported on HK police activity and added restrictions for airdrop to make information sharing harder.

Google’s sideloading restrictions seems almost like its perfectly timed… 👀

Anyways, Google can gargle my:

Lol, pun wasn’t intended, but this is such a lovely coincidence

LMFAO

So… is PRC pronounced… PRiCk?

Btw, USA pronounced OOo-sah

“Give up your only bargaining chip otherwise we’ll hurt you!”

Hmm wonder where I’ve seen this before…

ahem Russia-Ukraine ahem

Nooo you can’t use Encryption

Haha PGP goes Brrrr

Devil’s Advocate: Because it’s legally required.

Let me show you my budhole

It’s a place where my buddies hang out!

Please set up a live camera in your house for us to watch 👀

Not really. They are converging onto the exact same thing. 3rd party stores are allowed, but needs [Google/Apple]'s approval.

If you are big and have teeth (like Epic Games), you will (probably) be allowed, if you are small like a single open source developer, the can shut you down city dubious “security”/“ToS” issue, and you probably don’t have the money to sue.

iOS would be the better alternative

• Already can’t “sideload”. iOS will be just as restrictive as Android in 2026-2027.
• Apps immediately gets killed in the background. Can’t even transfer data to a USB Drive without needing to downloading a separate app, and need the app in the foreground.
• iPhones cannot multitask
• Developer account costs $99 **per year. On Google its only a $25 one time fee (for the near future, at least, I can’t predict what they will do in like 2035)

What if you just play a bunch of home repair videos on the background? 🤔