I think pretty much any of the mainstream distros can be trusted as long as you make sure to check for any “opt-in” voluntary things that many people choose to allow. It’s good to help the developers do a better job ongoing to keep the distros as good as they can be. So if you have a reason to not want any of it, just check the options to make sure you know they’re shut off.

There are probably some distros which explicitly make a point to have absolutely no data sent, but you need to take into consideration what the best distro is for your needs irrespective of this one factor, since none are going to do this behind your back to the magnitude of Windoze or ChromeOS.

I have an Lposed module that you can indicate which apps you want to block updates for so they don’t get updated, regardless what any given shop tries. Easier than toggling it off for all those specific apps within each of Fdroid, Droidify, and Aurora.

There’s also Obtanium that lets you do updates a different way as well.

As for removing apps you can do so on any brew as long as you have root privileges. Sometimes you can even without, via ADB unless they’ve prevented it.

So I mean basically Linux phone doesn’t really need to be used as a way of making this an easier thing to accomplish. Root is right away the ultimate solution, and a custom ROM even better.

I don’t think I know what rocm is 🤪

Brave New World got it even better because in that book, everyone welcomed oppression with open arms and celebrated it.

Psssst. They’re “in on it.”

And the typical consumer has no critical thinking skills and also, is ignorant, and very often a moron, and a sucker. People aren’t smart. The appliances are lol. And the people at the top of giant companies have a greed that is insatiable.

Lesson: never buy an appliance that has internet connectivity.

They won’t get less than a dollar; they’ll get a coupon toward additional purchase from the sued company.

Class action is only about punishing the company and not minding that lawyers will pocket all the proceeds.

Isn’t anything that goes badly an expected consequence of willingly being Google’s lab rat?

Boy, they’re all really determined to thank all their customers by saying “fuck you,” aren’t they.

If only we could unite and make our demands, as consumers, and take down a company as a sacrficial lamb… If only people could be persuaded to unify for a revolution. Makes me sad that most people would always put their immediate self-interests above the potential for long-term satisfaction for all (well, nearly probably).

I do talk about this quite a lot, and honestly years ago I was preparing to spearhead this kind of thing, except a lot of things in my life got in the way. I even had a domain ready for a few years, but ultimately I couldn’t take on the project.

The way things are trending nowadays though, maybe I’ll eventually try again, as my life is different and maybe I could make it happen. We’ll see. Because I think pretty soon nobody will have any choices anymore whatsoever in any aspect of their lives.

They don’t have to worry much because now that Android is about to lock folks out of their biggest selling point, there will be a lot of migration to iPhone.

And unlike iPhones, Androids allow you to pop in a microSD chip. It’s not even very expensive now to buy a 1TB! How can anyone run out of space anymore?

True! Kinda nudging up against the fourth wall.

I don’t know why that’s funny.

I don’t really know why you’re asking it phrasing quite that way, but the Higgs Boson was discovered numerous years ago. You probably meant to say now that we have… it just read as though it was something yet to be achieved.

What’s so beautiful about it is that it was such a testament to the scientific method because it was established that it would have to exist to explain observed phenomena, and then it was identified. Oftentimes things are discovered and then explained/defined etc. but science can work to establish such reliable knowledge that we knew it had to be there, and then we found it. Kind of like some archaeological discoveries. Just some of the beauty of science.

I don’t even know what to make of this, I just know, it’s pure Larson. LOL.

Or what they want you to think they want you to think they think. Good luck sleeping tonight. Lol. ;-)

I have /e on a Galaxy Note 4. It’s just like another Lineage or Cyanogen brew.

I briefly tried FUTO a long time ago but it nowhere approached what I needed.

Well, I don’t use swipe, regardless which keyboard I’m using or even which device I’m using. I use about twenty different devices depending what I’m doing. Don’t ask lol. The frank reality is nothing whatsoever beats the iPhone when it comes to knowing what you meant to type. Even though the iPhone has recently had some really weird problems with autocorrect, I have sometimes been so shaky (Tourette’s) and I’ve typed some of the most incoherent drivel, and yet my iPhone got everything 100% corrected to what I intended to type. It’s just frankly astonishing.

But on Android my goal was to avoid Google products when possible. That’s why I went with Heliboard. FOSS, very customizable, backup and restore all settings (MAJOR help when adding to a new device). There are truly an impressive and elegantly functional features, anticipating a wide variety of needs.
BUT I have to erase and retype well more than half of my input. And that’s not including any shaking just for the record.

Meanwhile, gboard does about 85% as good a job as iPhone. I mean, I’ve got shit to get done, ya know? So, for now I am using gboard most of the time and I’ll change back to Heli once in awhile to see if it’s any better after there’s been an update.