Get a device that is supported by degoogled android systems and get rid of all the garbage. My recommendation is always GrapheneOS on a pixel, just because you can reinstall google play services if you really need to and preserve usability, while massively boosting privacy and security.
Unfortunately the majority of devices supported by degoogled android distros are straight garbage. LIke the pixel line. Best device i’ve seen would be Fairphone 3+, or Volla Phone 22
No microsd, no jack, no dualsim. So basically noone of the features i need. You know what i don’t need from my phone? A lot of processing power. Wtf would i even use that for, “Advanced Calendar”?
That’s fine to prefer those features, but it’s not accurate to call those phones bad. Mine came with a USB-C to 3.5mm headphone jack and USB-C to USB-A adapter and plenty of storage, so all my needs are met with it.
I used blokada on my phone and it blocked around 10k calls per day. I’ve since moved to use Mullvad as an always on VPN and turned all of the blockers on. Haven’t setup a pihole for my home yet because I didn’t have access to the router.
Wait till you plug in your cell phone to charge they start calling home like crazy
All hail GrapheneOS
Get a device that is supported by degoogled android systems and get rid of all the garbage. My recommendation is always GrapheneOS on a pixel, just because you can reinstall google play services if you really need to and preserve usability, while massively boosting privacy and security.
Unfortunately the majority of devices supported by degoogled android distros are straight garbage. LIke the pixel line. Best device i’ve seen would be Fairphone 3+, or Volla Phone 22
If you say that you must have never used one. Pixels are objectively good phones by every measure except having an SD card slot, which they don’t.
No microsd, no jack, no dualsim. So basically noone of the features i need. You know what i don’t need from my phone? A lot of processing power. Wtf would i even use that for, “Advanced Calendar”?
That’s fine to prefer those features, but it’s not accurate to call those phones bad. Mine came with a USB-C to 3.5mm headphone jack and USB-C to USB-A adapter and plenty of storage, so all my needs are met with it.
I used blokada on my phone and it blocked around 10k calls per day. I’ve since moved to use Mullvad as an always on VPN and turned all of the blockers on. Haven’t setup a pihole for my home yet because I didn’t have access to the router.
You can put it on the network anyway, you just have to set it as the DNS for each device.
Better to set the DHCP server to hand out the dns rather then set it device by device
Dude said he couldn’t access the router, which I assume is handling his DHCP in this scenario. I could be wrong, but that would be unusual.
Yea I should read better
More than 1 every 10 minutes. Seems legit.
Do you have a number that’s 1 digit away from Dominos Pizza or something?
I think they meant their smartphone “calling home” not an actual phone call
@sheogorath can you confirm?
Yep I meant API calls when saying calls.
Calls as in network requests not phone calls
Telemetry DNS/API calls, not dialer calls.