Post AZoRWTrC9RHpOcpQu0 by NoSir@noagendasocial.com
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(DIR) Post #AZoOXTxewvBU99ddXk by NoSir@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T03:16:49Z
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What I love about my Pixel 4a phone:-$300 when new-1080p- I could #degoogle it (grapheneOS)- after degoogle, the battery lasted for days- GCam sideload makes the camera pretty good- small (>70mm wide & 150g)What I don't love:-security updates end this month-battery life is diminishing QUICKLYHow to upgrade from perfection? I just want a pocket friendly photo shooter that doesn't contact a remote server a dozen times a minute. It will mostly sit on my kitchen table, ignored.(cont.)
(DIR) Post #AZoOg6DkaLLh7hH1lI by NoSir@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T03:18:24Z
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(cont.)It seems my options are 3:1. buy a phone I don't want that will run a rom I do. So a supported device for Graphene, Calyx, LineageOS.2. buy a phone I DO want that has a custom rom on XDA forums (or some other source?) The Asus Zenfone 9 meets my specs and has at least one mod running no GApps/microG, but installing sounds daunting for my tech level.(cont.)
(DIR) Post #AZoOpbBep4eFllpAm0 by NoSir@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T03:20:07Z
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(cont.)-buy whatever phone I want (perhaps Sony Xperia 10 V) and use ADB to disable as much shit as I can without breaking a retail version of Android. Safest but possibly incomplete solution.Anybody out there that can share a little perspective on this struggle I'm forcing on myself?
(DIR) Post #AZoP6OBePUBeNCpMn2 by IceCubeSoup@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T03:23:09Z
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@NoSir Volla phone ?https://volla.online/en/index.html
(DIR) Post #AZoPSBQEY9an9f2aaO by NoSir@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T03:27:05Z
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@IceCubeSoup I think I found this years ago, but forgot since. Thanks!Do you have experience with them?
(DIR) Post #AZoPqlBjDxWX1zyWYq by DaddyO@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T03:31:32Z
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@NoSir @IceCubeSoup Following.I'm in about the same situation. I like my GrapheneOS equipped Pixel 4, but after dropping it in the lake, while I'm happy it didn't die on me, I have noticed it will lose all connectivity about once a day, and won't restore until the phone is restarted, meaning I could miss all sorts of calls and messages when I'm not paying attention.So I'm very much looking for a suitable replacement.
(DIR) Post #AZoQ4wVHwySMBCt3aK by MaleticResearch@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T03:34:05Z
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@NoSir Disabling as much is unfortunately not enough. As long as there is Google backbone there, uncontrollable spying is easy both for Google and for other apps that want to use its structure. Only really safe Android is open source version w/o any form of Goog services and apps and, very important - without any Google identity associated with it. On such system even (non Goog)apps that would spy on you have no traction, no Goog to grab on, no identity to grab on.
(DIR) Post #AZoQq0xBDuajaiNXBA by NoSir@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T03:42:36Z
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@MaleticResearch that's how I thought it was. I was hoping someone would chime in and tell me I'm wrong.In the end that's what it's all about for me; I'm not trying to hide from the feds, I just want my data fragmented enough that it's hard to build a profile on me without combining data sets from my telecom provider, VOIP provider, and VPN provider. And the google account is the part ties all that together into a simple package.
(DIR) Post #AZoRWTrC9RHpOcpQu0 by NoSir@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T03:50:16Z
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@IceCubeSoup holy crap, those phones are huge! For the money I think I would take a Pixel 6a and do the Graphene thing again
(DIR) Post #AZoRwn2FTAEwPDXn4S by d3n@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T03:55:02Z
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@NoSir Pixel 6a is $250 @ target.. Not a bad pricehttps://slickdeals.net/f/16924042-128gb-google-pixel-6a-5g-unlocked-smartphone-various-colors-249-free-shipping?src=jfy&prop=rcmid-d59279294e625ff2fa21c0b621a8405dYou also can try waiting.. Last year google had very generous trade-in offers... I upgraded from pixel 4a to 6a for ~$50..
(DIR) Post #AZoSHK4kKtdGfbVGCW by NoSir@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T03:58:45Z
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@d3n that's my best compromise to date. It's too big, but the price is right
(DIR) Post #AZoUp1pEtb91p3RwYa by CattleBaron@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T04:27:14Z
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@NoSir I'm still waiting on my rotary un-smartphone
(DIR) Post #AZoXn8XBHWIDudnCi0 by NoSir@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T05:00:31Z
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@CattleBaron made of bakelite
(DIR) Post #AZp9Wfs3salGdk8Wsi by CattleBaron@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T12:03:20Z
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@NoSir or some purty plastic.😂 https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html
(DIR) Post #AZpesg5ErovkFVGvtw by NoSir@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-16T17:54:40Z
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@CattleBaron now THAT is a phone. I wonder if the carriers are still running their scam where you can only use devices they have whitelisted as VoLTE compatible? That's how they forced me off my old phone in 2021, not whitelisting the device despite its full compliance with their spec.
(DIR) Post #AZqLGFk6eKIVZyJNXU by CattleBaron@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-17T01:49:29Z
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@NoSir current problem per creator's mass email is that one of the chips is not fcc approved despite same chip being used in other phones ,, fcc response . .'yes but not THIS specific hardware package'gov azzhats
(DIR) Post #AZqSeGkfFUkDKzyIOu by CattleBaron@noagendasocial.com
2023-09-17T03:12:18Z
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@NoSir I had a v3a Motorola razor flip that I had rebuilt 6 times..Verizon killed it last year, it was my first cell, I kept it running for many moons