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Ryan 1y ago

I've got one phone running GrapheneOS. It's awesome, great battery life, open source freedom phone that protects my privacy and security. 😎👌

I've also got a stock pixel 8 pro. Gemini live was enabled today and I've had a chance to play with it for a bit. It's also amazing. You can talk to it like a person, ask questions, interrupt to add information or change the direction of the conversation. It can continue tasks in the background while I talk to it about other things. I'm literally living the sci-fi I grew up with as a child.

I feel torn. I know what using the stock os entails privacy wise, but at the same time it is so useful. Maybe I need to segregate some important things to my GrapheneOS phone, and keep the 8 pro as a normie phone. Decisions, decisions.

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atyh 1y ago

the closest I would come would be using it only at home, and leaving it in a faraday bag when I’m not using it. but I’m over the top like that 🤷

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GHOST 1y ago

Don’t forget in privacy and anonymity that you can’t be 100% all the time. I wish you could but you can’t. So instead you segregate your #Opsec into buckets. Your normi kyc’d non private life of job, bills, taxes, things we can’t escape. Your private life with VPNs and user names. Your nym that only sees Tor, etc. Really the only way to do it is to have segregated devices that never cross. Keep android but only use it for normie things

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Den Yellek 1y ago

The privacy rabbithole is a hard one.

You make your life so much more complicated and difficult with the services you will and won't use. You watch the convinence and simplicity that the average person has.

I often find myself wondering what the point in caring is. Asking myself how my life would actually be worse in any way if I handed everything over to big tech.

But at the end of the day I find the world of complete data harvesting and manipulation so repulsive that if I can disempower it even by one user in a small way it feels like something I should try to do where I can.

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Nope Noperson 1y ago

It's not worth it. Don't feed the machine.

Every bit of freedom we have given up has been for the sake of convenience.

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Nope Noperson 1y ago

Not to mention how it will curate the information you regularly access as you utilize it more. It will nudge you to make decisions you wouldn't normally.

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Hazey 1y ago

I will never use Google