Busy modlog you got there, buddy. 👀

What about someone currently on a Googled version of Android on a non-pixel that want to get a privacy smartphone?

I remember Clash Royale had one where they let you play the tutorial to basically try the game without installing anything.

To put in in perspective. A Moto G Play is $150 (at retail, not including discounts) and can withstand a razor blade scratching the screen, the inner screen of a foldable phone, which is 10x the cost, cannot withstand a simple fingernail.

Watch the screen scratch test by JerryRigsEverything, then watch another scratch test done on another modern non-folding phone (such as the Galaxy S25 or iPhone 16) and you’ll see how fragile those bending screens really are.

I personally wouldn’t. These things are like $1.5K+ USD, but the inner screen can be easily scratched. Hinge is one extra point of failure, although it supposedly last longer than the lifetime of the device, that hinge is where sand can get in and its not dust-tight.

My opinion is that these are rich people toys.

You gotta ask yourself: Do you really need that big of a screen?

Lol I like how you technically answered the question even tho that’s not what I meant 😅 (its cool tho)

Is more like I want to pre-emptively move away from android in anticipation of Google’s autocratization, because, Google have:

1. recently added restriction on sideloading in Singapore to “protect against scams”.

and

2. Google has also refused to provide pixel-specific source code to make it easier to build custom roms.

Thete are just the first 2 of the “red flags” I see.

So… as far as I know, Graphene OS is kinda on life support because it depends on Google’s co-operation. I don’t like the idea of Lineage OS because for most of the phones, you’re just running around with an unlocked bootloader, which to me, is insecure.

Also: I’m not in the EU, I’m in the USA, so Digital Markets Act wouldn’t have jurisdiction here.

To Reiterate, the things I want is (in order of importance)

1. The ability to install any app/program I want (which Google seems to start to restrict, and Digital Markets Act doesn’t apply in my country). So I want to move away pre-emptively as a precaution.
2. Evil-Maid resistance (such as Graphene OS with Re-Lockable bootloader, which is on life support I remind you, due to Google being a dick). On a computer, I can boot from a encrypted-USB drive in read-only mode therefore making it very evil-maid resistant (I know its not impenetrable, but it’s the best I’ve come up with).
3. To have as much privacy as I can reasonably get.

Looks cool, but:

I don’t think they can even boot from a USB drive? I’m thinking of using a hardware-encrypted-USB (like ones with a keypad built in), set to read-only mode which I would have the bootloader stored in, and use as a boot drive to make it evil-maid resistant. AFIAK, Devices such as the Pinephones only accept microsd cards for boot (correct me if I’m wrong).

Meh, sure android is trying the “desktop” thing again, which is just another glorified mobile UI. They just added restrictions for installing apps out of the play store (aka: “sideloading”) to supposedly stop scamming (its currently Singapore only, but they might expand it worldwide), and didn’t release pixel-specific code to allow custom ROMs to be easier made, so I worry about the direction they are going with the authoritarianism under mobile OSes.

Not a hard decision

Apparantly it was a hard decision for Cuban Americans and Latino/Hispanic Men

Men can have multiple wives but women can only have one husband.

No need to learn anymore and you know its a bad religion, just like any abrahamic religions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbnDr_IbdIU

Vanguardism sure have worked great in the past, amirite?

insult men

The left abandoning young men is why there is the alt-right pipeline… 😓

Sorry I cant go “home”.

“Home” is PRC and they aren’t exactly too shy with the tanks."

Besides, PRC also doesn’t have dual citizenship, and I already naturalized as US Citizen, meaning the only citizenship I have is the US.

Any EU countries accepting refugees? 👀

Works fine for me. Did you update the filters?

look at history book “Oh no”

flips though more pages 😳

(Wars, Oppression, Poverty, Polio…)

We are all stupider now thanks to tech, no doubt.

I respectfully disagree.

I mean, if you mean like for some of my peers that spend their time on shit like “tik tok” all day, that’s obviously making them more stupid. But for the nerds that actually want to know more about the world, Not really.

For example, the Encyclopedia. That’s a very narrow source of information, and subject to the author/publisher’s censorship possibly by government pressure. There is no direct publishing like there is today.

In my birth country, PRC, the Tianamen Square Massacre wouldn’t ever made it into any encyclopedias, but with the internet, at least now there’s better chance of someone using a VPN and accessing the truth. Might not change anything politically, but at least the truth is out there for anyone willing to see it.

The internet-connected world make it harder to censor thing. There are a lot of videos and images of protests during the covid lockdowns that would’ve have a hard time mading it out to the international community without the internet.

Edit: And also the fact that now everyone has a camera in their pockets, acts of police brutality are more easily documented with the exact events replayed without the usual human eyewitness unreliability (misremembering the events). The murderer of George Floyd would’ve never been convicted without that phone video. I know the fact is there are still a lot of police brutality incidents that goes without justice served, but this is progress noneless.

Technology isn’t inherently evil, its about how we use it, its about what we do to stop those in power from wielding the technology, and we have to take it back in our own hands and wield technology against them.

Hmm interesting. But it means I don’t have a magical “damn it I forgot, let me google it” option. If I lived in that time, I’d have to write every piece of knowledge I want to remember down on a notebook, so I don’t forget and have to go borrow that same book again.

Or keep a whole bookshelf of knowledge, in which case, that would be taking a lot more space than a wikipedia.zim file + .epubs