13 thoughts on “Brave”

  1. Try this guy on YouTube: “Rob Braxman Tech”. He has instructions on de-Googling an Android Phone and sells them as well. iPhones are out of luck. Linux Phones are becoming popular too.

    I have NOT tried his stuff yet but its on my list as soon as I finish the Bat Cave re-model.

    Is that the Bat Phone? Coming Alfred. Robin, Lets go!

  2. You can get a modernish feature phone from Nokia/HMD, but that doesn’t really have the utility of a modern smartphone, and as you say, while there are pure Linux phones they’re really not ready for end user use.

    Degoogled android might be an option. Honestly I have to admit Apple is is pretty good on user privacy if you’re willing to tolerate the closed platform….

    1. If you’re willing to put up with a little bit of effort you could use a dumbphone linked to a tablet or laptop, and just leave the latter off all the time except when you’re actually using it. A bit inconvenient but it would cut down on some of the constant tracking beyond the basic “here’s where I am” coming from pinging cell towers.

  3. At least with Android you can install any application you have a package file for if you really want to. Not so on Apple iOS.

  4. Privacy-wise, Apple is far, far ahead of Android. And Apple is very good about supporting older phones with the current OS versions, and even fixing security issues on phones not supported by the latest version.

    Hardware reliability has been excellent for me. I’ve been using iPhones since 2010 and have never had one stop working.

    I personally have no issues with the so-called “walled garden”, but that’s a decision each person has to make for themselves.

  5. Re Apple:
    About 6 years ago I bought an iPad mini for use as an Electronic Flight Bag. It has iOS 6. Each later OS made it work worse and after iOS 9 it won’t take any more “upgrades”.
    Miserable, over priced PoS made by horrible company that is just as “woke” as the fools at Google. Our Android phones and my wife’s cheap Android tablet are far cheaper and far superior devices.

  7. If you feel like a certain amount of tilting at windmills, there’s the Purism Librem 5, a low-to-mid-range phone running Linux (not Android), that’s privacy focused as well as being repairable-focused. The obvious drawbacks are that it’s expensive and the SoC is a quad-A53, so it’s fairly slow.

    1. Ah, but I like the 2TB removable microSD memory capability! Gets rid of this b#&&shit “cloud storage” for Apple. Sounds like something I will investigate.

      When you say “expensive”, how does it compare to an iPhone 12?

  8. Brave runs well. Same as Firefox. Same as Chrome. Same as IE. Same as Windows 3. Copy-paste beats dumb internet goons again. These systems of potential tyranny seem to attract wanna-be-tyrants.

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