On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 20:47 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 06:33:23PM -0400, james wrote > > I have an expensive cellualr service and a Galaxy Note 9. > > It SUCKS really bad. I spend way too much time, just dealing with > > a close source system and way too many vendor traps. I'm done with > > with, > > and am curious if others have similar experiences and are > > interested in > > alternatives, that we the citizens control. In my newly forming > > approach, there is room for vendors and consumers and open source > > developers. I'm in the USA, but, there is absolutely no reason > > this > > movement I am proposing, could not sweep the globe, IP centric, > > free and > > open. > > I think Lineage OS is what you're looking for > https://lineageos.org/ > Open source, etc. The main problem is that OEM's are locking down > their > phones, and making it harder to reflash firmware. Plus, you've got > to > find somebody who knows what they're doing, and won't brick your > phone. > I'd be interested in anything you come up with. Here's why... > > I'm in suburban Toronto Canada. The CRTC (our equivalant of the > FCC) > have gone full asshole mode and decreed that *ALL* cellphone alerts > are > sent at the Presidential Alert level (it's re-labelled "Emergency > Alert" > up here). *ALL* means *ALL*. Yes that includes missing kid or child > custody dispute several hundred miles away. What doesn't help is > that > the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) has a policy that *THE ENTIRE > PROVINCE* gets a Presidential-Alert-masquarading-as-an-Amber-Alert > when > one is launched. For the American audience, Ontario is intermediate > in > size between Alaska and Texas. To add insult to injury, an "Amber > Alert" often results in 3 (***THREE***) Presidential alert messages, > even in the middle of the night... > > * The original unblockable alert, sent in English > * Oh yeah, Canada is officially bilingual, let's send out an > unblockable > message in French half an hour later > * an hour later the kid is found, so send out an unblockable "All > Clear" > > Fortunately, the Canadian system is relatively new (spring 2018) > and > is only designed to work with LTE. By forcing my phone (Alcatel Go > Flip) down to 3G-only, I avoid these alerts. Eventually, 3G will go > away, so I want a solution for that day. So far in my neck of the > woods, > there have been... > > * 7 missing-kid alerts > * 2 test alerts > * 0 nuclear plant meltdowns > * 0 chemical spills > * 0 terrorist attacks > * 0 tornadoes > * 0 partidges-in-a-pear-tree-e-e-e-e-e >
Hardwarewise you might check out the Librem 5 and the "fairphone". Both are designed to give you more visibility into what's actually going on and better ability to control what the blasted thing does in the middle of the night. LMP
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