Try CoMaps instead of Organic Maps. It's a fork because Organic Maps is starting to enshittify
I just ran the two apps side-by-side and barely found any differences other than some subtle UI changes. How exactly is it different? And how is Organic Maps being enshittified?
Quite the kinky lineup; WiFiAnal, Wetter, QuickDic... ๐
Lol. Last picture at the bottom third. "WiFiAnal" xD (Sorry, I'm childish)
Hey, that's the only safe way to let others control your buttplug.
Quite impressive choice of apps, usually when I look at screenshots of privacy enthusiasts they look more or less like my own phone, and with you I share 3, maybe 4 apps only
They said it couldn't be done...
It still can't be done 100% unless you make significant sacrifices to the usefulness of your smartphone...there's plenty of really useful (and sometimes necessary) things with no FOSS or open source alternatives.
Not to mention drivers... many driver blobs are proprietary and if you can find an open source one, there is a chance it works partially or not at all. I have a spare phone and I've been hesitating between flashing either PostmarketOS (all FOSS drivers but without the android ecosystem) or LineageOS, or maybe both if I can achieve that.
Even if you fixed the issue with drivers...
...your modem runs it's own firmware with a lot of extremely shady behavior, and you can't touch that regardless of which OS you install. Even your SIM card can arbitrarily execute Java applets and fetch from the network without your command, but at least it's somewhat contained. Your modem though, it can do a lot without your control and people like Qualcomm have been caught doing nasty stuff with it (plus, of course, giving the US the data whenever they ask for it).
This is why people like Stallman and Snowden often talk about teaching users how to use libre software on their computers, but rather than pushing for the same with smartphones, they tell you to not touch these at all instead. They're fundamentally anti-privacy devices, built this way.
Of course I carry one, it's fairly hard to live without a phone nowadays, but we must be aware of the impossibility of fully containing the data harvesting they do.
Honest question: I see a lot of people here use their mobile phones as a computer platform. I have a general uneasiness about doing so. Not throwing any shade whatsoever, I just feel there is too much out of my control on a mobile phone, for me to trust it more than I do. My general policy is not to use my phone as a mobile computing platform even tho I have a VPN installed and use Firefox as a browser.
My local network for instance. There is one pipe in and out. I can easily see what is coming in and what's going out and I can control that with the granularity of a gnat's ass. I know what my software is doing or not doing. I can allow or disallow anything I want. On a mobile phone, I feel that the control I have on my PC is not equal to the control I have on my phone.
How have you come to terms with what you can't control on your mobile phone?
I definitely agree with you on this. My pet theory is that phones have been getting uncomfortably big, at least from my perspective, since the average consumer is expecting it to serve as a computing and productivity platform, while all I want is a nice little digital Swiss army knife. I'm only logged into my messaging apps and personal email, and don't expect to do any sort of "productivity" on my phone. When my friends and colleagues assume I'm logged in to this-or-that on my phone, all I can think about is how afraid I would be if I were logged in to so many things on my personal phone. It's so much harder to inspect what's going on in the background of mobile devices.
One of the compromises I've had to accept is the closed, yet exploitable nature of the baseband and firmware. Also how much more spying it could do compared to any PC if an exploit were to get through. Compiling Coreboot and neutering the Intel ME taught me a lot about who's really in control - and how much control we all lose to smartphone manufacturers and telecom companies.
How have you come to terms with what you can't control on your mobile phone?
Threat level analysis.
What do you do when you leave the house?
Touch grass? Not OP, but when Iโm out of the house, itโs because I need to do something, so Iโm barely on my phone except for navigation, the occasional text/call, and paying for stuff. Otherwise, I use my laptop most of the time (at home and at work).
On occasion, I do leave the compound, but it's usually to get staples I don't grow/produce on the farm. Rarely does that process need a mobile computing platform. (I guess that's what you're asking)
I run an older android version, no google apps, rooted, and use AFWall/AdAway. I'm sure it's not as secure with root and older software but I can mostly trust it to not send weird network packets etc.
That's how my GrapheneOS phone is zero proprietary apps in the main profile and then my own separate Google profile. Essentially get to carry two cell phones with one device.
What does maintaining a separate profile for Google stuff buy you? I'm familiar with GrapheneOS, but haven't internalized the separate profile thing yet.
It keeps Google 100โ seperate or vice versa.
Then when it's locked down it shuts down play services and apps to complete non functionality.
Go into system and create a new user. Set up that user exactly like you would a standard smart phone. And any apps you have on your main profile completely open source. That way it's 100โ Google free
Where did you get super tux kart?
F-Droid
Really?? It's not appearing on mine :(
I've got an old Samsung J7 from 2016, maybe that's why
you can get it from GitHub:
https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code/releases
and you can use obtanium to automatically update it (or any apps from GitHub/ the web)
Thank you. Most of thoese i even dont know. Can you make a list?
Of course
That TI calculator app is the shit. I am in the generation who used those in engineering school. Goddamned things were like $150.
Ahhh....I am of the generation that remembers when there were no calculators. When they started becoming available, yes they were quite expensive. All my teachers would say 'what do you think? You think you're just going to have a calculator in your pocket all the time?' Well, yes Mr Mizelle in engineering, I will be walking around with a calculator in my pocket that links to a satellite in outer fucking space.
And it has autocorrect on it, so then I'll forget these spelling words
Btw Accrescent isn't run by the GrapheneOS team, they just advocate for it's use
Spotify
You had me going til that one.
My bad, misremembered that RiMusic fetches from Youtube music instead of Spotify
That is the way! Excited to flash my phone to LineageOS. Thanks for sharing the apps !
Attack surface who dis?
I see you have freetube. Grayjay is also a great addition as it has plug ins for lots of sites
Whoa, I have like half of these, nice!
So about that Wifi app in the third screenshot...
Forgot to put that on my list earlier, it scans for nearby WiFi access points and returns the signal strength, band frequency, and various details about each.
Does it grant "backdoor" access?
Not that I'm aware of. I only used it to diagnose weak signals and frequency band conflicts in the house.
Fucking legend! I'm going to spend the weekend exploring these apps and see what changes I can make on my phone. ๐
damn bro gat the juice
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