15 points

Interested in the built in VPN. Is that going to a monthly cost? If not, how are they funding it?

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By stealing and selling your private data, the cycle continues!

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3 points

Yea that’s the first thing that came to mind when I read that headline

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3 points

They can take my nunchucks and they can take my Adderall… But they’ll never take my

$27!!!

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32 points

Better off with a used pixel and grapheneos

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Poorly yes. Even though

  • no headphone jack
  • super expensive
  • damn huge
  • no SD card slot
  • no hardware switches
  • repairable? Idk
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  • yeah no headphone jack is a bummer
  • a used pixel is cheaper than than
  • my pixel 5 seems pretty small, but idk what they are now or what that is so you’re probably right
  • even bigger bummer than no headphone jack imo
  • I don’t think those are that important, a piece of tape over the camera is fine imo
  • you’re probably right there too, I wish fairphone could run grapheneos 😞
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Fairphones have no secure element. The devs may be annoying, but what they dont do for a second is waste time.

Hmm, camera maybe but tape? Also microphone is not that easy. GPS, phone antennas and internet antennas are also way shadier

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I wish fairphone could run grapheneos

They get this request a lot, see this: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1961

and this.

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Add very shitty on-screen-fingerprint reader to that list…

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Yeah I really dont want to upgrade my pixel 5 for a 6 for many reasons but that is a big one

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Pixels are some of the cheapest phones

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Not in my experience? A new Pixel 8 costs like 800€, thats like 600€ more than I would consider appropriate for a phone. All these prices are made up

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4 points

Where can I get more information? Is the software open sourced? Has it been independently audited?

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Its /e/OS, a softfork of LineageOS, mostly superficial. Only GrapheneOS is extremely secure, although to be fair really degoogled LineageOS will probably be very nice too

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really degoogled LineageOS

Also called DivestOS

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although to be fair really degoogled LineageOS will probably be very nice too

Not by any technical standard. Unlocked bootloaders, security regressions, and user debug versions that are never deemed stable isnt really “nice”.

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No audio jack –> nope.

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Welcome to 2023, the 99% doesnt want them as cool as dangling cords are an all…

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It’s now a fashion statement to have cordless white blobs in your ears. So cool.

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Maybe, but for those who dont like looking like retards, thiers litterally every other earbud in existance.

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Your mistake is in thinking that representation in the media/web sphere = representation in the population. White I don’t know the numbers, I reckon that the percentage of the population that doesn’t want a headphone is less than half—possibly much less.

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For privacy-minded people, hardware switches are a nice thing. I remember when I had a Xiaomi Mi 9T with its popup camera, and it was interesting to see that some websites would trigger said popup camera. While the camera was never actually used, the thing would go up and down. This was even with an ad blocker installed.

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I have a Mi 9 t pro. Never experienced anything like that.

While I do have hardened my settings, debloat with adb etc. privacy whise and use the EU MIUI rom.

Do you rememher said websites?

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Man, it has been a while, as I don’t use the 9T as the daily phone now. I think I recall The Verge as one of the sites, because I wasn’t expecting it from them. It happened only a few times, and it wasn’t site-wide. Can’t remember which pages triggered it though.

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My friend had one, and Instagram would often pop it out and back in quickly. That was way back when though.

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I heard speakers could be used as microphones

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Speakers are microphones, they are the same thing(basically), one uses current to move a diaphragm to create pressure and the other uses pressure to move the diaphragm to create a current.

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