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😔 ofc politicians like the idea of building the same corrupt banking system on top of Bitcoin. Whatever happened to eliminating banks?

With as much as I shill #GrapheneOS, you'd think I am getting paid. I'm not. I just want to live in a world of smart, uncoercible people, and as it happens GrapheneOS is a killer tool to that end...

#freedom #Graphene #bitcoin #plebchain #grownostr #nostr #zap #zaps

Come to #grapheneOS. We have the #zaps 😃

What I said above. Specifically about photos, contacts, chats, etc that normies think are private, but actually are not.

Sure, one thing that really helps normies is to dispelled the Apple privacy lies. Normies think Apple is private and think the data on their phone is theirs alone (family photos, SMS messages, etc) because Apple markets it that way.

If you explain that iPhone does not keep your data private, it only limits use of your data by Apple and its 'data sharing partners', normies tend to recognize the corporate shenanigans and sometimes they'll ask "what can I do if I don't want Apple to have access to ". Thats when you can bring up Calyx and Graphene (although I usually promote the latter first) as practical ways to enjoy a smartphone without handing over your data to Apple or Google.

Why has nobody started a crypto fund called BlockRock yet?

There is no great trick. They just have to decide to prioritize freedom and privacy. To that end, explaining how iPhone and stock android really do impede freedom, has led several to make that decision.

Ive gone so far as to by friends phones and install Graphene for them myself. At the end of the day, learning a new phone is work, and they have to want it, or they'll never do the work.

So, out of curiosity, what killer feature keeps you using iPhone instead of swching to a freedom preserving phone like Graphene or Calyx? What feature does Apple offer thats so much more important than freedom?

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I heard about this the other day. Can get a phone sent from Calyx with everything pre-loaded:

https://members.calyxinstitute.org/enroll/membership/phone

Personally, I picked up a used phone from someone I knew and flashed #GrapheneOS myself. Incredibly simple if you want to go the route of trusting Graphene’s site with the install.

Flashing it yourselfx as you did, really is quite simple. I actually direct new users to that route instead of buying a preflashed phone. Preflashed phones cost a fortune and aren't necessary for 99% of people