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Anon degoogles his Samsung (slrpnk.net)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Every DRM related app afterwards: WARNING! This phone is running insecure software and is incompatible with this service.

And before you tell me just to not use Netflix on my phone, I'm talking about a government app that lets me authenticate and without which I can't read official messages or login to any government or banking service.

So if I want to survive as an adult Dane, I pretty much have to figure out which company I would like to get sodomized by, and which is less of a clingy little bitch afterwards.

[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Oooooor have a secondary cheap absolute trash phone that is ONLY for those shitty government auth tools. Not ideal but gives you some control again

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What trash-ass country requires you to maintain a proprietary operating system and device to access government services?

[–] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They referred to themselves as a Dane, which is somebody who lives in Denmark. So the country in question is likely Denmark.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

Oh. That makes sense. My brain must have passed it over thinking it was a typo (of course they're not a dog of a specific breed)

[–] spacecadet@lemm.ee 149 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

My panties just dropped

Edit: I’m not a girl, just a rust dev

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 82 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Edit: I’m not a girl, just a rust dev

then you likely need to wash them now, like right now

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 12 points 4 days ago

They already shattered when they dropped.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 108 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Does all that and still used WhatsApp lol

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 62 points 5 days ago (10 children)

I still haven't found a way to make my parents use Signal, so either I stop communicating with them (which is tempting sometimes) or have this compromise

[–] teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 5 days ago (7 children)

use matrix with the whatsapp bridge

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 117 points 5 days ago (1 children)

install Pokémon Go

allow all permissions

[–] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Install pokemon go

Spoof location

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 61 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I hate phones so much.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I love phones, just hate the companies running it.

Same with most tech, the tech isn't evil, its just how its being used, and who's steering its future.

[–] KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago

Thanks to the companies you cannot love the phones without accepting the company's every whim. So I don't love phones.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly I wish we just had dumb phones and went back to Palm Pilots. But there's so much stuff that makes a phone mandatory nowadays.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The current state of phones is WILD. Two bad options yet most everyone (including me) still use them. I actually like to use it as evidence that most people would be fine if plopped in front of Ubuntu or Debian+Gnome/KDE

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That's why my current phone is a Pixel running GrapheneOS. I still hate Android, but at least I don't have to run Play services on my main profile. I do run it on a separate profile though for a couple services that need it.

I really just want Linux with decent support for phone features (MMS/calls/data on any carrier, with full wake from sleep reliability), decent battery life, and decent audio quality. Unfortunately, PinePhone doesn't seem to handle those things properly (maybe it does MMS now?), so I stick w/ my GrapheneOS phone, which at least cuts out most of the crap from Android.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

... and then hope that you don't get hardware issue warranty claim denied because of the software.

[–] MumboJumbo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

@BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works Sorry I can't figure out how to reply in thread, made an account just to tell you you can get a nøglebrik/kodeviser for MitId. It's a fully offline TOTP thing that you can use instead of the app. I never even installed the app :)

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 57 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

It's honestly such a pain in the ass to say no to everything Google shoves down your throat these days. And even after you say no it will remind you every so many days just in case you changed your mind after the 15th time you said no. Android used to be the "cool" phone but nowadays if you don't install your own custom ROM it's basically just Apple with extra steps

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 5 days ago

The number of services that have adopted dark patterns is too much.

It's no longer "No" with a checkmark that says "Don't ask me again" to only "Not now" with the implied consent that they can ask you again later.

Dropbox asks me every fucking time I use the browser.

NewRelic asks me every fucking day.

Amazon asks me every fucking order.

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[–] arc@lemm.ee 13 points 4 days ago

And then anon still walks around with a beacon in their pocket

[–] tengkuizdihar@programming.dev 18 points 4 days ago

very based.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I'd love to degoogle and debullshit my phone but then I need the back app... I'd like to tap with my phone to pay, and that won't be allowed because we can have nice things.

I'd like to use a host of other apps I won't be able to use anymore...

Any solution that allows me to just use a nice phone with all the features?

[–] Ajzak@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

put your credit card in the back of the case hah

best bet is get a phone with default android and delete default apps with ADB

[–] figaro@lemdro.id 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I did this when I was in Japan. I didn't want to jump through all their ridiculous hoops to get tap to pay to work, so I just threw my NFC debit card into my case and called it a day. Worked 90% of the time.

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[–] zoostation@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Pay with a credit card, you can tap those, and then you're not inviting one of the tech giants to monitor your purchases for no reason.

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[–] smee@sosial.link 49 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Why not just get a google-less ROM at that point?

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 35 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Fake: Anon can do any of this

Gay: Bought a samsung phone

P.S the kids have been raving about this phone just reduces all those steps to "buy phone".

[–] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (6 children)

No headphone jack... So close!

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 26 points 5 days ago (13 children)

The wonders of a device that doesnt support graphene os. Must suck

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[–] xep@fedia.io 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaken, Anon's Phone will still communicate with Google services for location services and push notifications after this.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 26 points 5 days ago (3 children)

No, not after he removed everything with Google in the name, including Google Play services.

What anon doesn't realize it's that you don't need to root your phone for all this, you can just use adb or the universal android debloater.

— sent from a Samsung that's degoogled in the same exact way.

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