The privacy sub may be even more paranoid than the stim subs.

This haunts them in their sleep:

programming-communism

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Is there an iPhone equivalent of deleting System32 because that's clearly the answer to this question.

    If anyone is that worried about data privacy, they shouldn't have a smartphone lol.

    • ArsenLupin [comrade/them, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I think that attitude is frankly toxic. It's the digital equivalent of "if you don't like America, you can move to Afghanistan!".

      • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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        1 year ago

        the platform and devices are kinda counter to principles of privacy. the towers track you, "free" software where your data is the product, the panopticon of everyone having a camera... Places that need to actually be secure ban them. You can get by without a smart phone just fine if you have a regular computer but then you transfer all the vulnerability to that device, it's just not physically with you and you have a little bit better control over it if you know or care enough to make the efforts.

            • ArsenLupin [comrade/them, he/him]
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              1 year ago

              It doesn't have to be that way though. Properly designed hardware combined with Libre software could make things much much better.

              • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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                1 year ago

                Ok but this is like saying “I shouldn’t have to pay a 1/3 of my check to you” to your landlord and refusing to pay. You’re gonna end up on the street whether it’s true or not, until the security state and big tech is dismantled their phones are gonna be like this

                  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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                    1 year ago

                    Idk man by the company’s own admission it cant support a lot of the things people use smart phones for

                    If you depend on proprietary mainstream mobile messenger applications, banking applications, use loyalty or travel apps, consume DRM media, or play mobile video games on your fruit or Android smartphone, then the PinePhone Pro is likely not for you."

                    Like if you’re answer to “just use a dumb phone” is use one that’s this handicapped to the point it basically is a dumb phone with a touch screen then idk if it’s really there yet. (I am being somewhat hyperbolic here, I don’t want to split hairs about what counts as a smart phone I just mean it seems to be lacking functionality)

                    And a lot of the other solutions to this issue require a lot more tech competence than the average person has.

                    Edit: also isn’t saying “just use an obscure hong Kong produced device” the same kind of “go live in Afghanistan” kind of answer? Like you’ve done the same thing here but just with a slightly more advanced device

              • Wheaties [she/her]
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                1 year ago

                the camera and microphone should be controlled by a toggle switch that physically disconnects it from power and the mother board

          • 7bicycles [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            things not being conceptually bad in a vacuum has little relation as to how they are in the real world

      • oregoncom [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The real toxic attitude is simply expecting everyone to have a smartphone. Stop trying to make me install an app or scan a QR code for everything. I've gone without using a smartphone for months at a time and I was fine. Pre-covid there were usually a couple times where some event or restaurant or work thing required some unnecessary app, but since covid I think people have gotten sick of this type of stuff and it's not as common. Worse case scenario just get a burner phone for when you're forced to use a smartphone.

    • edge [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Is there an iPhone equivalent of deleting System32

      It’s Apple, so no.