i think i'm going to switch back to a dumb phone.
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025
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They will down grade your LTE to 2g and will monitor your shit anyway.
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the year of the linux mobile has come!
That will be even more susceptible to malware because Linux is easier to hack than iOS or Android. Linux has a weak threat model against malicious software.
Year of the OpenBSD phone
That would be the real "wildcard" out of nowhere mobile OS, and would be amazing. For some reason I thought of it like a pro-wrestling "pop" where Android betrayed their long-time friend Linux mobile while fighting iOS. Just to then have "WAIT what's happening?!?" then OpenBSD mobile's music hits and runs down with a steel chair, and the fans lose their minds! lol
I doubt openbsd supports the fp4, or even the pinephone.
Hell yeah!
I agree that with linux, once you're in, you're in. there is virtualization but that's annoying and slow, or ig you could not use internet(pretty much impossible) or very strict firewall rules, and then use some kind of proxy but that would not be a problem if it were hacked, and would resend the data but maybe fromna reader mode, which you could display with a minimalist browser.