Comment on FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers

• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yea, I hear ya. Lots of shitty apps these days with excessive perms.

  I root, run a firewall, and lock the little bastards down. No, you don’t get location perms. No, you don’t launch at boot, or when I plug in to charge, or when a media button is pressed. So many shitty receiver registrations, and running in the background. Nope, removing that too.

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  • HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I just don't even want a smart phone. I have one for work because I have to but only work stuff goes on it. Im surprised most will run like that. I have a hard time getting them to run on a tablet.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can understand the sentiment, for sure.

      I just want my pocket computer, with everything controlled by me.

      With today’s storage capability, I can have all my dictionaries local, I could probably host a decent encyclopedia, and my physiology apps, etc.

      Everything else will go through a vpn, with no location/identifiers, etc, being sent.

      Lineage with Magisk Root & XPrivacy modules, plus MicroG can do this.

      And with self-hosting, I can use messaging apps like Snikket, Litewire, Simplex, etc (the challenge being getting others on board, which is where my self-hosting comes in. I can create accounts for friends/family, and they don’t have to do anything).

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      • HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        yeah. One of my dreams is a feature phone with internet tethering capability so I can just use a standard tablet or laptop with it.

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