Re: [tor-talk] [OT] Smartphone purchase advice?

2019-03-21 Thread grarpamp
> Secure laptop advice? / Smartphone purchase advice ? Obviously buy only unlocked carrier independant phones cash upfront no financing, fuck the carriers. Bonus is they won't come preloaded with carrier blingware, only manufacturer blingware. Most of the manufacturer warez can be avoided

Re: [tor-talk] [OT] Smartphone purchase advice?

2019-03-21 Thread G
Not really knowledgeable with other than readily available phones (android and apple) but there is only so much you can do. Decent custom firmwares tend to be available for the more popular android phones. Custom recovery and of course rooting usually are necessities. Apple is of course

Re: [tor-talk] [OT] Secure laptop advice

2019-03-21 Thread tortalk
muc4dol...@secmail.pro wrote (ao): > Hi. I want to shop for laptop I can trust and ask for your opinions. I see > grarpamp often state #openfab and things like that. But in today reality I > think we still buy AMD or Intel parts and things I dont understand with > new UEFI BIOS. > > puri.sm looks

Re: [tor-talk] [OT] Smartphone purchase advice?

2019-03-21 Thread tortalk
muc4dol...@secmail.pro wrote (ao): > Interesting about hardware advice but also concerned for O/S. Are > people excited for puri.sm Librem phone or skeptikal? I am very exicted about the upcoming Librem 5 for several reasons: o Purism has a proven track record with both hardware (their laptops)

Re: [tor-talk] [OT] Smartphone purchase advice?

2019-03-21 Thread dns1983
Hi, as far as I know reading on replicant.us and libreboot.org, actually doesn't exists any modern smartphone fully free. Typically the GPS, WiFi and modem firmwares are closed source. Moreover almost any arm device implement the PSP technology, which is something equivalent to Intel ME.

[tor-talk] [OT] Smartphone purchase advice?

2019-03-21 Thread muc4dollol
Hi, I would like to ask advice for purchase new smartphone. For now I survive on old android phone with no google account and scrape up some basic apps from f-droid or other places. It's hassle but it works well for basics. Minimum is buy some typical Android hardware and use LineageOS (which is