God damn, seeing this thread today. WTH. Why are people bashing me? I'm just sharing my setup and expected like-minded people to suggest improvements or share their setups. I didn't think this would also feel like Reddit
OP has too much free time on his hand
Yeah, I have free time, and I spend it on this hobby. Also, this setup took like years (started from my late teenage years) of understanding(linux, docker , security etc) to achieve this and I'm proud of the progress I've made. I mean, from normie to here. This is a slow process. Also, the advantage of this is a "minimal" setup, which reduces mobile use
what you gonna do when some police man gonna come to your house regarding some random investigation which has nothing to do with you and asks you to unlock all your devices
It doesn't mean we need to take care of our privacy on what's possible right? I like to take it to the level I'm comfortable with. If we're talking about that level of extremes and have that threat level, Graphene OS has a duress password, which, when entered on the normal password page, wipes all the data and factory resets it. A similar setup can be made to home servers and others.
My dear friend, you put your real name on an internet forum
Yeah, that's the choice I made. I should be capable of giving my data whenever/wherever I want. I'm the one who should be deciding where my data is going. That's also a matter of privacy. By the way, I'm not all devices removed, forest living paranoid. Also, in this forum, the name matters less when selling/buying, we will even be posting our location, which is an even bigger risk than just the name alone. As I said, I also enabled data collection on KDE. Cause that's the choice I made.
Do you run rr setup on pi how is the performance
Yeah. It is good enough. Obviously no transcoding. Only direct play.
Did you have any issues with nextdns, I had some issues like instagram gif not working so i changed to mullvad dns
Nah. Nextdns is working perfectly for me. Regarding mullvad, I think they don't have servers in India and so I felt dns lookup took long time for me(I tried 1-2 years ago).
Privacy awareness is sorely lacking here.
Yeah didn't expect this from niche forums like this.
Allow me to introduce you to Cambridge Analytica in UK. The firm used datasets created by the Facebook (now Meta) to target voters with messages on the basis of their political leaning. The goal was to sway public opinion to leave EU. And they succeeded.
That's what I meant when I said privacy from government.
Not having google maps, and android auto is the only annoying part.
That's the beauty with graphene os. You can have separate profiles (or work) with play services. I have google maps on work profile . In other custom roms like lineage , you are either stuck with play services or not for full device. Another thing is play services are sandboxed , so they are just like any other apps instead of being system apps and having full(almost) control of the device like when gapps are flashed to custom roms. You can deny any app permissions you like. Also updates are frequent and graphene os doesn't seem like just a guy building custom roms in his free time. They are serious about supporting it.
So what you are really saying is that just because of this hypothetical possibility, we should stop securing our personal information ?
Yeah that's such a poor argument. It's like saying I will never drive because of dying in an accident in a hypothetical scenario
I have started taking baby steps in being a bit more privacy-focused, as targeted ads on my feeds had started getting out of hand. Deleting Chrome was step 1.
Congrats on the journey. Instead of going on hard at once, take small steps so you don't feel overwhelmed.
