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   david :_biflag: (david@pl.dav1d.lol)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 15:48:03 JST david :_biflag:
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 15:48:50 JST 翠星石

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     @david Morning ruined.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 16:16:17 JST 翠星石

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     @VIPPER @david https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxySIIGTI9100
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     VIPPER (vipper@new.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 16:16:19 JST VIPPER

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     @david I miss small phones like you wouldn't believe
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 16:32:28 JST 翠星石

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     @david @VIPPER The replicant project only installs free software onto the devices.
     
     The NAND comes with nonfree modem software, but you can choose simply not to load it (you don't want it anyway if the device is a media player).
     
     The remaining issue is the signature on the initial stages of the bootloader.
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     david :_biflag: (david@pl.dav1d.lol)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 16:32:29 JST david :_biflag:

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     @Suiseiseki @VIPPER phones still have proprietary components
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 16:40:36 JST 翠星石

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     @david @VIPPER I use a GNU/Phone.
     
     I made the copypasta I handcrafted real with some differences;
     As a 20 year old single male, I think it's very hard to find a girl who doesn't worship proprietary software and can understand that I only use free software and do not run proprietary software unless I'm getting paid to do so and it's on someone else's computer.
     
     I've heard girls jokingly ask to "Netflix and chill", but when I tell them I refuse to watch videos "on Netflix", even if it is not being run on my computer, as it is such a threat to freedom that I feel uncomfortable with legitimizing it in that way and ask them what movie(s) I should prepare for mpv playback in 100% freedom, they stop talking to me.
     
     What's worse, if they do stay, they see my 100% freedom computing setups and how all browsers are configured not to run proprietary JavaScript and how youtube.com redirects to an invidious instance and think I'm weird.
     
     Sometimes I get their numbers and I send them a greeting via SMS, also noting that I'm reachable over irc and email, with my gnupg key attached via MMS and instructions how to verify the key and they often mumble something about "green bubbles" and "Android", even though the message was sent via asterisk from Emacs.
     
     I clearly don't use dating sites as those require running proprietary software, plus none of them have any respect for privacy either.
     
     How come it is so hard to find a girl who is indifferent about software freedom, rather than dedicated to never achieving it?
     
     I feel like I'm going to be a wizard and then stay like that forever (but that may not be a bad thing).
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     david :_biflag: (david@pl.dav1d.lol)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 16:40:37 JST david :_biflag:

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     @Suiseiseki @VIPPER yea but how do u make phone calls then?
     
     what phone do you use out of curiosity? do you just not make phone calls ever?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 18:56:55 JST 翠星石

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     @rozenglass @VIPPER @david >Read Only Memory >hack around.
     
     >we're tracked and spied on anyway, no matter what image you use.
     Replicant with the modem disabled (or on a device that) means you cannot be spied on (as the internet doesn't work without a modem or a usb Wi-Fi card lmao).
     
     >to do some government / bank related stuff
     I do not have a tracking device for government or bank related proprietary malware.
     
     If you run the malware in the end anyway, humanity loses.
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     Red Rozenglass (rozenglass@fedi.dreamscape.link)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 18:56:57 JST Red Rozenglass

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     @VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe @david@pl.dav1d.lol @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
     I use a GNU/Phone.
     I use paper, it's more than enough. I used to hack around Android ROMs, trying to get more freedom, but I realized that it's a fool's errand, we're tracked and spied on anyway, no matter what ROM you use. I haven't used Android for years, then I used it again a bit more, but then dropped it again for almost a year now, and I'm very content. Peace of mind is worth all the "features". I have a device with a free-ish ROM that I don't take with me anywhere, and access only through adb / scrcpy, to do some government / bank related stuff that can't be done without a stupid phone. And people's expectations around me (family and work) are adjusted by now, they know I don't respond if I'm not at home (using my computer).
     
     
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 21:06:27 JST 翠星石

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     @rozenglass @VIPPER @david >The OS storage /is/ read-only, in almost all phones I had the displeasure of using.
     The NAND is r/w, it's just only the proprietary master who decides what to allow the user to write and not you.
     
     >even though it is popular to call them that, it is traditionally wrong.
     It's a popular error, as Read Only Memory cannot possibly be writable - it has nothing do with tradition.
     
     >I don't live in the land of the free
     The USA is the land of the nonfree.
     
     >I live under a peculiar political situation, and without a phone I could easily end up detained or worse.
     Big yikes. I would leave or overthrow the government in such situation.
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     Red Rozenglass (rozenglass@fedi.dreamscape.link)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 21:06:29 JST Red Rozenglass

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     @VIPPER@new.asbestos.cafe @david@pl.dav1d.lol @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
     >Read Only Memory >hack around.
     The OS storage /is/ read-only, in almost all phones I had the displeasure of using. You have to use "security exploits" to work around that, "unlocking the bootloader", then write a minor "recovery" image to a different partition, boot from that, then overwrite the OS partition. ROM is a popular term to describe Android OS images, but you're right, even though it is popular to call them that, it is traditionally wrong.
     Replicant with the modem disabled
     Without a cellular connection, nor internet access on the go, I fail to see the point of a "phone" other than being a small ARM computer but with terrible software development ergonomics, that sits somewhere under my desk, connected through wired adb to my desktop machine, and on which I run minor ARM software experiments... which is what I do right now :)
     I do not have a tracking device for government or bank related proprietary malware.
     I don't live in the land of the free. In my case it is sadly not optional. I live under a peculiar political situation, and without a phone I could easily end up detained or worse. Putting it aside and not using it every day is the best I can do, as far as I can see. Some people of similar situations to mine have to scan their fingerprints on their phones while enabling GPS location tracking, so the government can confirm their exact location at any time. I thankfully, only have to respond to phone notifications, SMS, and calls.
     If you run the malware in the end anyway, humanity loses.
     I agree. Keep fighting the good fight, friend.