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Why the Hell Does Android Even Exist Anymore?
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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Gonna stop you right there. No I couldn't
I was honestly thinking of going down to flip/slide phone tech anyway
I recommend against it. Aside from gaining aesthetics and user experience (I too genuinely love typing texts on a numeric keypad) you’re leaving behind almost every security and privacy enhancement that exists and it’s truly trivial to dump the contents of an old flip phone once you’ve got it open.
How does one securely downgrade tech, then? Using an old smart phone just sucks because everything runs slower than me after an entire pizza regardless of if it's just texting and browsing or games or anything.
I want to have phone where i can't run the proprietary apps from my work but can browse the net and send texts and listen to music without taking 4 hours to load
You dont. Old technology is easier to bypass and doesn’t support new stuff either because no one wrote the software for it or because the hardware isn’t capable.
We are using a vast, globe spanning system literally developed for surveillance and intelligence during the Cold War. Its predecessor, the copper line telephone systems’ wireless offspring, was augmented by an unholy alliance of technology and law into a vile chimera suitable only for spying. We have to recognize our position and make compromises.
The compromises I’ve chosen to make revolve around mistrust of state actors and service providers and led me to use an iphone with a bunch of settings changed and manual backups/music loading using an old computer.
You might be comfortable with a flip phone and an ipod (or any mp3 player, there’s just a lot of activity around the now “retro” ipods).
It's so fucking easy to install you just plug your phone into your computer and go to https://grapheneos.org/install/web
Yes you have to unlock your bootloader but that is also extremely simple. The whole thing takes like 15 minutes
Internet says i can't unlock boot loader for my "alcatel Lume"
Sorry if I'm being overly obtuse I'm pretty bad at brain thinking
Only works with pixel devices