we are all awaiting your suggestions on how to install and keep it updated on the phones of our friends and relatives

The one small issue I had was with the calls not appearing on my Android device when the phone is locked, but the call feature is still in beta so I guess down the line they’ll improve it.

for that usually you need to enable a special permission in the system settings, something like “display on lock screen”.
while you are there, also disable “pause app activity when unused”, for yourself and your friends too, otherwise android will not let them receive notifications if you message them.

who said they’ll take away social media. the popular addictive services will remain

the perfect showcase about the security guarantees of E2EE. It’s important, but it won’t save you if “your” phone is programmed to snitch on you. same thing applies to screen reader AIs, and whatever you grant accessibility permissions or the assistant app role.

fun fact: on most googled phones the google assistant app is by default, without approval, set as the assistant app, and it has access to screen contents. I don’t know if it has that access all the time, maybe only when you are baited to open it by long pressing the home button or trying to turn off your phone with the power button.

that won’t work anymore, because today not even just to youth, but everyone the only thing that matters is convenience. their friends are not on there? they are not interested! maybe they would try it for fun? too bad, their phone does not allow installing it

yes, if everything goes according to plan, it won’t be as easy for them to switch as it was until now.

that’s nonsense.

You can use any chat app that works, just don’t expect privacy

that was the fucking point, that they are making it illegal to change this for the better

unless you’re a pair of trustworthy cryptography experts using secure devices at both ends. Near future tech should make it more possible for regular everyday tech users to achieve what an expert could do today

you don’t have to be an expert for it today, but in the near future easy private tech will be illegal so that you will have to be an expert on it.

and don’t need any verification.

It’s still a good idea because the clients will show a scary warning for everyone else

better yet: criticizing Debian for the instability of Kali

selective enforcement could give them way to give you effectively a life sentence for breaking this and that law

by having you trust intel instead of themselves: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/

I’m pretty sure that only works when rooted. maybe there are exceptions for a few phones

honestly, it’s probably more than that. you don’t just “tick a box” to send commercial packages to places… like, did you hear about VAT?

bulky

who needs ultra slim phones? these are not bulky at all

and not good for privacy

what?

I think they weren’t shipping, so people had to find a reseller or something like that

that’s interesting. @[email protected] which one is misleading, this parent comment or the post title?

It’s not as fancy. No graphs, blinking lights, paneled layout.

apparently it has it all

https://lemmy.today/comment/20055580

they can have the slim modem, they shouldn’t get to know anything about the other parts of the OS

don’t forget, any time you meet him

there’s a quiz show on TV in my country. a few days ago they chose some marketing manager. they have dropped out at like the 3rd question, winning nothing. this is rare. Normally I’m cheering for players but I was gleeful for his loss.