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Deleted? Why, a split in the fabric?
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Omg it is so bad!
I tried Firejail in the past, but I couldnāt open Firefox or any other browser, I could never check why, Iām kind of dumb.
I suggest you open a new topic for this
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So the lesson is, as always, be careful what you install and run, and rarely grant root privilege.
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Goes for every kind of Computer 
The BraX2 phone is built off AOSP code with his own customisations, apparently. Iād love a far more affordable model (half the price) without all the frills, plus a removable battery. In the meantime, the second-hand market is still preferable to me.
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The BraX2 phone is built off AOSP code with his own customisations
were you able to find a link to the source code for it?
second-hand market is still preferable to me.
So a Galaxy S5 with DivestOS? 
S5 is one of my favourites, yes! Iād take that over any of the new phones available today. Several earlier removable battery Note models are good too. I havenāt tried DivestOS yet but that day will come.
In one of his videos, Rob has said that the source code needs to be cleaned up before being made available, but apparently it will be. I havenāt investigated.
has said that the source code needs to be cleaned up before being made available,
Oh have I heard that before. 
I find most companies that sell āPrivacy Orientedā phones just throw LOS or GrapheneOS on them plus an extra $150-200
Such as privacyphoneshopā¦ And some screw that up by installing privacy invsding junk right back on it.
Have yet to see a company with their own open source AOSP build for privacy.
Lately keep hearing non tech people talk about the QPhone taking over, complete privacy and possibly made by Steve Jobs as he faked his deathā¦ Good laugh thoughā¦
Is DivestOS for the Pixel 3a XL still being maintained? Took a peek on the site a saw you have it listed as broken.
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Pixel 3a XL still being maintained
There is currently a strange issue where I cannot compile bonito/sargo on Android 11.
Iāve asked a few people about it and know one can figure it out.
Hopefully once LineageOS 19.1 stabilizes and I rebase onto it, itāll compile again.
Heh. I think he will come good, otherwise there will be a kerfuffle. He is too visible not to come good on that (if he hasnāt already).
No, some people are too gullible and unaware. āYou can fool some of the people all of the time. You can fool all of the people some of the time.ā
Two more reasons I would not trust Braxman or believe anything he says without verification:
(1) When I start torbrowser and go to brax dot me, NoScript shows me it wants āgstatic dot comā
When I view source, I find:
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat" rel="stylesheet">
Itās fairly innocuous, but unless Iām mistaken, it gives google a log entry for every view of the homepage with javascript allowed.
(2) When I go to robbraxman dot com, https everywhere notices it is a non-https page, and asks if I want to proceed anyway or disable on this site. āBe aware that disabling this option could make your browser vulnerable to network-based downgrade attacks on websites you visit.ā
These two things alone tell me he is not really ācommitted to privacyā as he says. After that, the rest is just bla bla bla without substance.
āYou canāt fool all the people all the time.ā
Or maybe Iām mistaken and overly concernedā¦
I think in the same terms when facing those situations. Canāt claim to be a privacy advocate for yourself and more importantly others if your own website is collecting info and sending it to the big guys.
Have ran acrosa many privacy sites that were very unfriendly with Tor, idc Cloudflares reasons for requiring captchas, etc as the privacy advocates should be avoiding them all together for that reason.
Privacy is spelled with: AWS, Google, Microsoft and Cloudflareā¦
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Donāt forget Apple, they are current heroās for not giving FB user dataā¦ For āfreeāā¦
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The BraX Phone 2 (?) appears appears to be a UMIDIGI (Power 3?) with a MT6771, modified Android 10, and a kernel from 933 days ago (4.14.141).
Might not be the Power 3 exactly because the camera looks slightly different from website image (it isnāt shown in video) but the baseband version, kernel version, holepunch camera, and speaker grill are identical.
This is a $100 phone on Alibaba, and marked up by Brax to $379.
I donāt think you are. I am apalled he is using Googleās infrastructure. Which is why his app will never be seen on f-droid too.
Good point
Ooh. Interesting. I have a theory that he is being slow on
releasing source code so he can sell as many phones as he can (with nice profit) before others catch on.
Pinephone was my daily again ā¦ for about 2 weeks. Now you see Iām back here on F-Droid.
PP has come a long way in the 2 years that Iāve repeatedly tried switching to it, but dropped voice calls ā like while talking to my manager, or the guy towing my car! --, and missed text messages ā like important ones from your partner ā still happen. Doesnāt matter if the phone is on a nightly or stable for the various OSes. And the new PPro is the same modem as the original PP, so those users are in the same bucket.
The PP/Pro would actually be a great device for someone like @cord_winder who doesnāt use a SIM and wants physically shut off things like GPS 
Mmm, not always. I will say this for the Pine64 company: they are hella organized! Great content, regular announcements, etc. They spell out how to disable things like geolocation. Compare their wiki & forums, or Mobianās or Ubuntu Touch, compared to XDA ā wow, XDA is a mess now compared to the Cyanogenmod days. So-called flashing āGuidesā that forum users say doesnāt take on their phones but the author doesnāt reply and then thereās a follow-up guide on how to revert to stock 
So F-Droid to the rescue again.
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I got nav almost working on my PP with OSMScout backing PureMaps. The location worked, the offline maps worked, but actual live turn-by-turn did not work 
The problem with voice calls on PP are many:
- audio volume needs raising but raising too much causes echo
- noise, such as ticking
- dropped calls
- VoLTE profile mapping
The PP folks do indeed say āvoice just worksā but Devil in Details here. It seems to me most PP Daily Drivers donāt actually make many phone calls.
The VoLTE problem is starting to rear itās ugly head this year with the carriers terminating 2G/3G service. PP folks started reporting no calls and my guess itās because their modems werenāt actually doing VoLTE but doing fallback. The PP modem can do VoLTE, sure, but it doesnāt have all the LTE profiles for all carriers to set itself up with their towers; it has just a few generic ones. Librem does a very thorough list of carrier profiles. Hopefully Pine64 can find a way to support the tiny variations that each carrier has for LTE.
Good afternoon:
By the way is it reliable Rob Braxman ?.
I say this because I was looking for a new terminal, and I see that they have phones without google. And even that you can put GrapheneOS
Because I do not see so decent cheap phones that you can put official lineageos for example. And the carbon or Pinephone or Fairphone are expensiveā¦
Then I do not know if you would put something else on a mobile with lineageos without gaps. I have:
Adaway
Afwall+
App Manager
Mull
Fennec (both browsers with user)
Autostarts
XPrivacyLua
XPosed
Fdroid
Silence (sms only, mms blocked)
Simple Gallery
NFC and Bluetooth disabled LTE Cleanner
Then I do not use or have any social network.
And blocked by hosts telemetry, changed time server and some other stuff.
By the way I found an article that almost comes to say that Fdroid bad no, better to use Google. It would be https://wonderfall.dev/fdroid-issues/ . Anywayā¦
I apologize for the article. It is not my intention to offend or anything bad. It is that or is paid or I do not understand that article and privacy ā¦
Best regards and thanks for your time
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