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i "downgraded" to an iPhone 16e.

i’ve learned:

- always-on screen is dumb

- dynamic island is dumb

- camera button is dumb

- new modem is great

- one camera is fine

- magsafe is dumb

- titanium is dumb

- battery is great

- 60hz is fine
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The Stacker Monster 9mo ago

I guess nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ks3f750r didn't work out for you?

I remember you saying some good things about them a couple years ago and even thought you donated $1M to them...

I don't blame you for sticking to an iPhone though, I tried to transition to graphene and struggled myself. A "locked down" iPhone, particularly without icloud used, without siri used, and with lockdown mode enabled is probably as secure/private as a closed source black box phone can be...

Wanted to love graphene for it being open source but its a tough switch after being an iphone user for a decade+

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GrapheneOS 9mo ago

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqwq8aszhx3cqfa5af0j2z6fnwxhu2fg3xcuy6m3ph4ut2hrg957fszth9ey nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63qnace4v He didn't ever say that he was using GrapheneOS himself. He linked to it and gave us a large donation which has helped to fund a lot of our work and we haven't used it all yet since we also have many other donations.

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ElvenWolf 9mo ago

You should try calyx if you are having trouble with grapheneos

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The Stacker Monster 9mo ago

I don't really have a problem with grapheneOS that calyx would solve. It would probably just make things worse.

My main issues are:

1) I am used to the iOS environment more than android

2) 95%+ of my contacts use iPhones so I can securely message with iMessage, only a quarter of them use signal. By using graphene, I end up with insecure/unencrypted SMS messaging with my contacts

3) I do not use icloud, i don't use siri, i use lockdown mode. I feel like with those settings, I have a setup that is probably equally as secure as graphene with some (but hard for me to quantify) privacy tradeoff since apple is probably still collecting a bunch of data on me

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ElvenWolf 9mo ago

It would seem that GrapheneOS loves to manipulate people and they never stop posting as you can see... Stick with what you feel most comfortable with. That will be the best OS for you.