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Cake day: April 17th, 2021

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  • I’m not from USA and “cultism” is not for me, I’m enthusiast of open source and don’t trust proprietary software and hardware. Sadly, but there is no 100% hardware ready for end-users, so I’m just trying to find a balance.

    Btw, any device has proprietary “security” components, so it’s all about “smells less”, not " trusted one".

    My own opinion - GrapheneOS is good one, using it on Pixel devices is a trade-off.

    Anyway, that thread comes to holywar and I don’t want to take part in it, my arguments and thoughts you can find in comments above, if you disagree with them - OK, I’m fine with it. Just shared my thoughts



  • Privacy can be controlled on application level, but there are a lot of system stuff that user can’t change and the best solution for system is GrapheneOS in terms of security, as I said in first comment.

    Google is evil, no question about that, but Google is just a brand / label on the phone. Ironically, but most secure and privacy-friendly phone is Google Pixel without Google

    As for privacy, any phone capable of running lineageos is fine, but lacks security





  • You talk about users like about some apples that you can just buy in the nearest shop.

    That’s not how it works. If you want users to use your app, you don’t need to create imaginary problem, you need to solve a real problem, otherwise all your “user gatherings” will give you users for a very short period of time, after that users will leave platform.

    Your post is very naive view of current state of the world, sorry. Nobody will buy privacy, people who concerned about privacy don’t use data-mining services (like line or Facebook).

    Do you want money? Do something that users will want to use.

    I know one good example - etke.cc, those guys create and support Matrix servers for users, their work based on opensource and they get money directly from users, fair relations with users, IMO.

    I know a lot bad examples, where sevice maintainers sell users data, even if they have paid service.

    Be fair with users, be good one.