Only thing I could figure out (except maybe looking into Chinese payments systems which… No. Just no) is Garmin Pay.

Once set up, works with the smartwatch and does not use the phone, or the internet, at all.

I know it’s not exactly what you asked, but its what I managed to do. Garmin watches also work pretty great with Gadgetbridge :-)

AFAICT currently Tolino is just a rebranded Kobo.

I can empirically say, that just switching from stock to a degoogled ROM gave me a significant battery boost. I have no idea what that thing was doing in the background, but it’s already doing a lot less of that.

For microG… Until UnifiedPush becomes more widespread the choice between having your notifications go through FCM and halving your battery life is going to be a tricky one.

And you think degoogling offers no obvious benefits in terms of privacy?

GrapheneOS wins, but whether iOS is more private than CalyxOS or /e/OS I think is very gray, and depends on the threat model, and on most devices they are going to be a significant improvement in privacy, and often security, over stock Android.

And privacy may not be the only consideration when choosing a device.

Since my threat model includes mainly surveillance capitalism (and no evil maids or targeted attacks) I don’t particularly feel like trusting a big tech that’s running their own targeted advertisement system.

I have read this several times, and still have no clue what you’re trying to say.

That seems like an overly black and white position over something that can be either quite valid or entirely nonsense depending on the situation and/or threat model.

And for some reason, to this day, I still end up accidentally calling it OpenOffice two out of three times.

I tend to run individual instances of a browser in incognito mode and am very conscious of which tabs are open in which instance, so websites cannot steal information from other tabs.

Isn’t that the purpose of Firefox’s multi-account containers? Compartimentalising cookies to prevent cross pollination?

Noob here, just asking honestly.

No, and simply somebody that know what they’re doing should pick it up. I’d certainly be willing to donate a little, just as I donated to the original project.

The FOSS Android world has a new music player every week, and apparently still only one antivirus.

That stuff becomes a moot point once you have a decently working bureaucratic system (if and when). If you can ask for a digital certificate online, and get it in your email three days later, you’re not too worried about losing a copy.

On the other hand… I swear to you that multiple times, I have had to present “a birth certificate that was less than 6 months old”.

As if the time and circumstances of my birth might have suddenly changed in the last year.

Not quite. The Kodi plugin still uses Widevine. You just don’t get higher quality content unless your hardware is “certified” with some key burnt in at the factory, or some such nonsense.

Wait, what? There are countries that let you have multiple valid copies of the same ID??

Every country in Europe that has vastly better privacy laws than the US, also already has national ID since forever.

Now they even became electronic biometric IDs, and I still don’t need to show it whenever I buy a loaf of bread.

Even if, why would anyone ever want to bother when they could just track your payment cards?

TBF, Germany has been one of the countries often opposing Chatcontrol, so there’s at least that.

Do you have a link for the 5:1 fash vs commie crimes? Not doubting, just want to read more.

As far as I can tell there are two separate worlds, with close to no overlap.

On the one hand the mainstream stuff, proprietary, DRM compatibile, interner dependet, non moddable, no privacy, no way to own your content, tracking you from asshole to appetite, often ad-infested.

Best you can hope for is some Android TV streaming box, but the moment you start to do stuff like root it or unlock the bootloader some streaming apps might decide to stop working, or degrade your quality. DRM-protected streaming services will completely refuse streaming high-quality content to any hardware you really control.

On the other you have self-hosted, often open source, tweakable, local, customisable, technology, compatible with all codecs you want, but functionally blocked from DRM. There is essentially no way to legally acquire video content for the second one. You could get a libredrive compatible BD reader and rip your own movies, but that’s still illegal in many countries, certainly the US, and is a ton of work.

If you have sufficiently powerful hardware, you might be able to stream low-bitrate 720p with software decoding. They won’t serve you better stuff. Anything better than that, you should consider it accidental and likely to stop soon.

Hopefully his 7a doesn’t die tomorrow, and by then Fairphone has managed to put out Something that’s at least reasonably better than 7a.

When I bought my Fairphone, I was simply too fed up with working around the intentional shittiness of the other companies.

I prefer to deal with some technical limitations, than have to deal with intentional ones.

I use Arch BTW.

Yes, it’s relockable. You are welcome to Google for more, I had done some research a while ago.

I plan to brush up and switch my own FP4 to e/os during the holidays.

Edit: Google it on any search engine you like ;-)

As others said, it’s pretty stock android so… Bad. But you can buy it from Murena pre-flashed with e/os and then have a stock phone with a locked bootloader running a decently private OS. The bootloader is unlockable if you so wish.

I see, I know the arguments from gamers (and have seen that video before). The discussion was on TVs and I didn’t think of the gaming angle.

I’m also not convinced about that stuff, to me it’s like talking to audiophiles that swear they can totally hear the difference between made by an expensive ethernet cable in the final audio, or that they can tell 16bit 48kHz from 24bit 96kHz, while basic physics and double blind tests say they can’t.