> my best advice today to potentially targeted individuals is don't carry a phone at alil

Lol. I hope you like working with geese, but be careful, they can't be trusted!

Also, you are pretty much factually wrong on a bunch of items on your list. GrapheneOS still has room for improvement of course, but they are very ahead of anything else on every aspect. And where you are not factually wrong, you are just unrealistic. There is no 100% open-source hardware, period. This is complete "what color you want your dragon to be" category.

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lrvick a day ago | parent | next [-]

> Lol. I hope you like working with geese, but be careful, they can't be trusted!

Geese? That is offensive. I raise chickens.

I also run a successful tech company, and have a full EE lab, several full server racks, and more tech in my home than anyone I have ever met.

Phones are completely optional in modern society. We have just convinced ourselves we need them because doom scrolling and constant notifications are addictive.

Print your boarding pass, ask for paper menus, pay with cash, and arrange times and places to meet people and then actually be there on time. The rare times you really need to do online work on the go, bring an actual computer with a real keyboard. Free wifi is everywhere.

Works just fine, and as a bonus your time away from home becomes mostly invisible to marketing firms.

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lrvick a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> Also, you are pretty much factually wrong on a bunch of items on your list.

If you are going to call me misinformed, please take the time to prove it so I can stop sharing information I otherwise have no reason to believe is incorrect.

> There is no 100% open-source hardware, period.

Multiple fully or mostly open hardware computers exist. They just cannot run android.

MNT Reform, Precursor, and Talos II are the top three that come to mind.

Those are lightyears ahead in openess and auditability compared to anything Google produces.

	▲	strcat a day ago \| parent [-]
		> Multiple fully or mostly open hardware computers exist. They just cannot run android. No, not really, and there's no reason those can't run AOSP. > MNT Reform It has a typical closed source ARM SoC and other components. The chassis and board being open doesn't make all the components open. CPU, GPU, MMU, USB, etc. are provided by the SoC and are closed source as usual. It has closed source hardware and firmware for the SoC along with other closed source hardware and firmware. Not having to load firmware from the OS does not mean it's open hardware and firmware. It's barely more open than other computers for the most complex parts of it. How is something fully open hardware if the vast majority of the complexity is in closed source components providing most of the functionality? The SoC is just the most complex of these by far. Why couldn't AOSP be run on a regular ARM SoC used in devices which run AOSP? AOSP works fine on top of the mainline Linux kernel and drivers. > Talos II A mostly open source motherboard where you drop in a closed source CPU is not really an open source platform. It's not fully open source itself and the CPUs used with it are not open source. IBM took steps towards open sourcing PowerPC as an ISA and relatively primitive open source cores OpenPOWER core designs exist. However, what's actually available and used with it are closed source CPUs. In theory, there can be open design CPUs for use with it. As a motherboard, it's pretty close to fully open hardware. As a functioning computer, it's mostly not because a motherboard is not a whole computer and is far less complex than the CPU even with a more traditional desktop design with less functionality moved into an SoC. > Precursor It has a closed source FPGA as the primary processor and other closed source components. It's far closer to being open source, but it isn't fully open hardware. This is the only one you listed which is anywhere close to mostly open source. It is very far from a powerful modern smartphone device though. > Those are lightyears ahead in openess and auditability compared to anything Google produces. The primary SoC in each is closed source. Precursor programs their CPU on top of that closed source FPGA so the CPU is open source in that sense and much closer to being mostly open. It's not the only closed source part of it. The other 2 examples have a closed source SoC. One uses a regular closed source ARM SoC incorporating far more than a CPU and GPU into the closed source chip. The other depends on a more traditional desktop style closed source CPU from IBM outsourcing more to the motherboard.