I want a phone where I can't go on the internet or read the news, just communicate with people I actually know in real life. Is there any way I can make this happen?

  • captcha [any]
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    7 months ago

    You cannot have signal and telegram but also no web browser or anything else.

    First you're looking at flashing a phone with a stripped down custom android OS like lineage but even those come with a browser installed as a bare minimum of functionality. Then your looking at side loading those two apps without installing google play services, which you might be able to do with telegram, but not with signal. IIRC signal requires google play services installed. You can try to flash the pico version of google but I think you dont want to go that far.

    • lilypad [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      There is molly, a frontend for signal thats available on fdroid

    • captcha [any]
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      7 months ago

      Like to really so that you have to build a custom OS that no one else probably has. Or maybe it does exist, but I doubt it.