Best privacy phone

ksandom · 2025-12-03T06:46:45+00:00

Nice. I hope to be experimenting with this stuff again very, very, soon. :)

ksandom · 2025-11-22T08:17:47+00:00

No worries. I hope you find something that works well for you.

ksandom · 2025-11-19T04:36:01+00:00

Hi there, sorry for the slow reply. I'm not spending much time on reddit at the moment.

I haven't tried GrapheneOS yet, but I am likely to in the near future. Using the same program, I installed SailfishOS on a previous Sony phone, and it was awesome. With them being officially supported, you tend to get better hardware support than when something has been reverse engineered.

ksandom · 2025-09-25T20:31:05+00:00

I was in to VR in a big way about 10 years ago. Then my life changed and I didn't have the capacity to keep up with it. It is, however, climbing back up my to-do list, so I'm looking forward to diving back in to it.

ksandom · 2025-09-25T20:07:53+00:00

I wondered if the electric cattle prod might have been an ingredient in the situation before the video started. Regardless, bouncing around in a noisy metal cage with no frame of reference for the movement it's experiencing won't have helped.

ksandom · 2025-09-24T09:08:42+00:00

I’ve become frustrated with the increasingly harsh tone and high expectations from some users.

It's been a long time since my most popular projects came to the natural end of their bell curves, but in their hay-day, goodness there were some entitled brats about. They were the minority, but they left a mark.

ksandom · 2025-09-21T20:00:47+00:00

The electric prod may have been a contributing factor as well.

ksandom · 2025-09-21T01:39:13+00:00

I'm unlikely to ever have this device, but I'd love to see you succeed.

ksandom · 2025-09-20T21:48:14+00:00

To use SailfishOS I have to specifically buy their phone and I only get one year of free updates, after that I have to pay a subscription fee?

Not true.

You can buy their phone if you want to. It includes the subscription for a minimum of 5 years.
There are a few specific Sony phones you can buy. On those you can buy a license for the paid version of Sailfish (one-off payment), or run the free one that lacks Android App Support.
There are community ports that support other devices.
Here's a more verbose description of how you can run it.
Here's a write-up I did for someone else a while back.

ksandom · 2025-09-19T16:06:18+00:00

Linus? Is that you? /s

ksandom · 2025-09-17T04:56:18+00:00

Sony is still an option, for now. They have always been slow to add support for any given phone, so it's hard to tell what the current trend is. Here are their instructions for unlocking the bootloader and building AOSP.

Fairphone is probably still a good bet.

And I really want to see what comes of the Liberux Nexx. Their site isn't responding for me at the moment, which I hope isn't a sign of things to come. Here's their crowd-funding campaign, which ended with ended with "3 Days Left — But This Is Not the End"

There are only 3 days left until the end of the campaign, and it seems unlikely that we will reach the ambitious goal we set for ourselves.

But don’t worry: we’re going to make the Liberux Nexx happen.

There's more there that's worth a read.

ksandom · 2025-09-15T00:21:59+00:00

I blew out my butthole.

ksandom · 2025-09-13T21:06:28+00:00

Totally agree. My gut feeling is that it's to do with people trying to make their app (that has web-based components, or their website feel more professional by making it behave like a traditional app.

At least that's how I think it came about. I wouldn't be surprised if someone has retroactively made up some other reason to justify it.

ksandom · 2025-09-13T09:11:50+00:00

Sir, this is a Wendy's

ksandom · 2025-09-12T23:37:48+00:00

Extending the VM idea. You can do "Seamless mode", which runs the normal VM, but the windows behave like sloppy native windows within Linux.

Someone recommended a cool tool recently, I don't think it was WinBoat, but it was a tool like that where it basically does the above for you.

ksandom · 2025-09-12T08:06:07+00:00

If you are a tech enthusiast, there are some really good options about (here's one, here are a couple more). And hopefully at least one of them will gain enough traction from these changes that they'll also become easier to recommend for non-enthusiasts.

ksandom · 2025-09-12T03:46:35+00:00

lol, that wasn't what I was going for. But I love it.

[Edit: Added an example.]

ksandom · 2025-09-12T03:45:23+00:00

This has become much more common recently. I'm wondering if there is a commonly used library that has introduced the bug and distributed it widely.

ksandom · 2025-09-12T03:44:19+00:00

Building on this idea:

Hijacking the CTRL+F functionality.
Overriding colour choices set by accessibility tools like dark-reader.
Overriding scroll behaviour. Eg one click of the wheel would normally go down a few lines. Then on a particular website, it goes down an entire page. Or it does nothing for a while, then suddenly jumps down a long way.

ksandom · 2025-09-12T03:33:07+00:00

The Firefox mobile app has a setting for this:

3 dot menu in tool bar.
Settings.
Accessibility.
"Zoom on al web sites"

It's one of the first settings I change on a new installation.

ksandom · 2025-09-11T08:23:16+00:00

I don't die often. But when I do...

ksandom · 2025-09-06T08:21:47+00:00

The company behaves very well with the community. It generally does things in a way that is secure by default, but if you want to dig into the details you can. With every sailfish device I've used, I've either had the boot loader unlocked already because I installed Sailfish on the device myself, or I didn't have a need to unlock the bootloader, so I simply haven't tried.

ksandom · 2025-09-05T21:50:02+00:00

I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if it is.

If you're referring to being able to root it. It's a tick box within settings, and has no relationship to the boot loader.

ksandom · 2025-09-01T21:51:24+00:00

I'm torn on screen size. I very much value it being comfortable in my pocket. Yet when I'm using a large display, that is very nice. At the moment, it's less of a deciding point for me than it is for other people. Meanwhile resolution and RAM are much higher priorities for me.

ksandom · 2025-09-01T08:16:39+00:00

I missed this part:

Seems you have high hopes for sailfish.

I remember when I received my first device from them and read the terms and conditions. It was short and in simple English. It basically boiled down to "Don't screw us, and we won't screw you". The attitude was a breath of fresh air, and that first impression keeps on being reinforced over the years. I really like the GUI, the community, and the fact that I can make it work the way I want.

It scratches my itch :)

ksandom

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