Cool, I now know about Rob Braxman. He has a lot of great content. I will have to see whether I can part with or replace certain appsā¦ do any of you know if the Tesla app works on F-droid?
Follow Rob Braxman on Youtube or Odysee and you'll find that building a privacy iPhone is impossible. Apple is no 'lesser evil'.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVU6rModlGxvJbszCclGGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmGdiCqjnq8
Personally, I'd opt for a phone that officially runs LineageOS and then install the MicroG variant for de-googling it. Then take it from there and only install privacy-friendly apps, e.g. open-source from the F-Droid store. Your path to more digtal freedom šŖš¼
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Very nice you are diving into this!
Yes, you have to make the effort to find replacement apps and let go of some. Beautiful exercise! And no, you won't find the Tesla app on F-Droid since it won't be open-sourced.
But since you probably need it, you can still download the Tesla app apk file, install it manually and curate updates with the Aurora store that doesn't require a Google login.
I really appreciate the guidance! We should all support each other doing what we can to improve privacy.
Although Iām an engineer I do seek a mobile solution that ājust worksā w/o me spending lots of time in a CLI. But I will investigate. If I didnāt have the Tesla it might be easier to go āall-in.ā
Meanwhile Iām waiting for my iPhone X to dieāit may be awhile so I at least went through a ācleanseā yesterday and deleted a ton of #crapps (thatās ācrap appsāš), deleted a bunch of saved passwords, etc. it just feels good to lower my attack surface as well as removing dependency on big tech. #privacy #mobile