But the specs aren’t comparable. The Murena phone is a higher-end device than the Fairphone. And the Fairphone does get incentives/subsidies for the Android version which is one of a few reasons the Android version is cheaper than the version sold with /e/OS.
The cost of the device is not being subsidized by all of the bloatware installation income, selling of personal info, etc. I think a lot of people don’t realize that inflation really shot through the roof on the last decade and it’s only because products are subsidized by the sale of your data and other unethical practices that product prices didn’t go up. Food uses shrink-flation to hide inflation, tech uses selling your personal info.
Mostly because rehab is very profitable and data brokers want that kind of info in your advertising profile just like any other trait that is easy for their customers to exploit for profit.
Depends on what you want. You can have the application have an https certificate which could either be one issued my a globally trusted issuer or could just be a self issued certificate that caddy is configured to trust. And caddy can then add the globally trusted certificates from let’s encrypt or whatever. But that definitely requires extra steps. Just, how secure do you want to be?
Right. Instead say “here you can use this as you like, and if you improve on it, share that with everyone in the same way so we can all benefit from it.” Is why GPL is better.
I use forgejo on a raspberry pi.
It definitely depends on the application. But when you’re installing it, it should yell you if it’s installing other things. Otherwise you’ll have to look at the actual files it installed. There should ne documentation you can read on the site or st least it should have given you a readme to look at when you install it that has the info or links to a website with the info. There also should be a privacy policy in the application or on its site that describes what info it collects and tracks assuming this is from a reputable company. I’m just not familiar with it.
Don’t include the non-encoded part of the data or it will corrupt the decryption. The decoder can’t tell the difference between data that’s not encoded and data that is encoded since it’s all text.
Anti-cheat software in either testing or gaming as well as employee productivity monitoring software (which is similar) generally has wide ranging permissions to do its job. So without doing research to confirm, I’d assume it has full access to everything you do across all applications, including when it’s not running in the foreground if it has background services running.
Personally, I never install that stuff on my primary operating system. I either use a dedicated device, dual boot, or if it is less sophisticated, use a virtual machine with only Windows and the necessary software. Of course I don’t use Windows for any personal computers anyway, too inefficient, and these days, too unstable and too much spyware built-in. I only use Windows on my work laptop these days which spys on me constantly to the point of crashing a lot as it collects all of its info when I use development software at the same time as WebEx or other necessary software.
If you want to know details, you need to look at the software they had you install as well as the dependencies it might install.
Still pretty limited set of supported devices, but it’s not really mean to be a defensive tool. Would be nice if this results in a way to detect and prevent your device from connecting to them, someday.
Because you trade privacy for convenience. You could have a totally private communication platform, but you’d need to trade current IP addresses of your devices if there’s no users and no centralized routing server or at least a list of what device is associated what person.
It’s secure because people can’t read the content of your message. It’s not private because people can find you with your phone number or username and associate encrypted message packages with the sender and receiver so they know who you called and when, but not what you said.
So if your contacts are tech savvy enough to call you to get your current unique IPv6 address, something that Android doesn’t really support out of the box, and IPv4 often won’t work due to layers of routing caused by the world running out of addresses, or some other unique network identifier, and there are no firewalls between you or they’ve all been configured appropriately to allow the particular message protocol then you could send simple IP Messages to each other.
But as long as you want to use a system that routes messages and has a user database, that central location will always be a privacy hole.
Still are, though most often it’s heat rather than photons from sunlight since it’s not really necessary to disassemble hardware to that extent these days. And there’s available processing power to retry or do other error handing for any interference. Like running an unshielded Ethernet cable through a wall next to a power cable or through a room with heavy machinery can definitely cause data corruption from EM interference, but it will likely manifest as slowness rather than crashing a whole system. But there are lots of things that still cause computers or applications to crash that are related to stray energy, we just are so used to buggy software now that it rarely is noticed. 😁
Problem is many Android apps require Google Services and none of these will have it. So things like banking apps, parking payment apps, RCS text messaging apps, and even dating apps these days are going to refuse to run. Grapheneos has the advantage of the Google services sandboxed to reduce the impact of having it if you understand the implications, as well as features keeping other apps from talking to each other like how Facebook was caught using their apps to identify you to your web browser to allow every site you visit to identify you that has Meta provided services, even in incognito mode or when you opt out of or block their or third-party cookies.
Local backup already exists, just sync it somewhere yourself. This new feature basically is just syncing the backup to their servers and limiting the amount for free because it costs money to store a lot if data.
Edit: not sure if iOS is the same since that’s more locked down of a platform than Android, but at least on Android this holds true.
Generally, the issue is that services want to blend the data into a single stream, otherwise you end up with having to make a separate connection to and from each client, each at full bandwidth called full mesh. It becomes easier to just have the encryption to the server, then decrypt all the streams from all the participating clients, and merge them into a single stream outbound. Adjust and re-encrypt that single stream and send it. That also allows for more control to make low bandwidth or dynamically changing bandwidth clients work better as you can adjust one stream rather than hundreds of outbound to each client. But that means the server has access to unencrypted streams to analyze and record. This is called server mixing.
Previous software generally only supported one or the other of those options. Signal is one of the few that have developed the technology to allow for selective forwarding which is the third option. Their website details how this works and it’s open source so some others have adopted it or have come up with similar approaches.
I also switched to the Transit app for public transit after google maps stopped showing the option to start navigation and only allows for searching for routes now. Not sure why it stopped working. Maybe because I use GrapheneOS, but it worked on Graphene before with no issue, so could be a combination of policy changes and using a non Google OS or something. It works fine with driving and walking still.
For driving, I still can’t find a comparable app that has both real-time traffic which is essential in my city to avoid constantly fluctuating bottlenecks due to construction, traffic pattern changes, and rush hour traffic. I found one at one point, but it didn’t read the names of streets, just said “turn right” instead of “turn right on first avenue”. This is confusing when streets are close together or it’s treating alleyways as streets, etc. CoMaps is the best I’ve found if it had traffic routing.
It’s more that shipping cost is baked in. When shipping isn’t shown until the last step, it allows for displaying a lower price.
So if you’re shopping on Amazon and it’s $20 and on another site without free shipping it’s $15, and the you get to the checkout and there’s $5 handling fee in addition to the $5 shipping fee, it wastes a lot of time. Sure most put that in fine print somewhere, but it’s just easier if it’s baked in. Just like many foreigners don’t hate how the sales tax is tacked on in most of the US and can vary by city as well as by state.
Sure you know it’s coming, but it’s easier to have a single price that is going to be what you pay, so you can shop around easier.
I see return policies as essential for certain items.
For example clothing sizing is extremely inconsistent and many sizing charts just are plain wrong, especially for women’s clothes, and for me anyway, shoes, since I have a high arch, so if I have to pay a restocking fee and/or shipping fees every time I get something that doesn’t fit just right, it is a significant cost. For example with shoes, I often have to try on 20-30 pairs at both local and online stores for every one that fits.
Just an example, but this also extends to shipping damaged products especially if a seller is not willing to deal with shipping companies for damaged products and shipping companies won’t honor insurance if you weren’t the one who paid for it directly. So you have to catch the delivery person before they leave the damaged package and ask them to return it to the sender and hope the sender will give you a refund without needing to reverse charges.
And then there’s defective products. Often manufacturers don’t exist anymore, so you end up stuck with paying for a defective product. Amazon often covers this whereas many sellers who sell overstock and outdated products without telling the buyer, do not.
These are just a few reasons that a good return policy is necessary. Now Amazon has a huge issue where they often send open box items that someone else probably returned (not usually an issue with clothing as long as it wasn’t damaged, but can be an issue with warrantee or licenses for some items or , and you have to then get a new one, but at least that’s free. Many others will just blame you for it if the outer packaging wasn’t damaged, so they can’t get shipping companies to cover it assuming they’ll even go that far.
Secure and private or anonymous are very different things and nearly impossible to do both at the same time and still make it user friendly. Signal is secure, not fully private or anonymous.
I’m just talking pure cost to manufacture for each. The cost of the hardware is higher: faster CPU, faster GPU, additional RAM, additional storage, higher end cameras, etc. That is where the cost of the phone comes from, so you can’t compare cost of a Fair Phone to this one any more than you can compare the cost of a Pixel 9 to the Pixel 9a. Both have basically the same software, warranty, parts availability, etc., but the 9a was about half the price of the 9 because the “a” series is a lower-end phone overall.