Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[fluffycrow]

It seems to be popular among some modern heads of state and their courtiers.

Thanks for that. The name seemed vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t remember where I had heard/read it before!

 

[Molpet]

Shad you can do with chickens like this guy did with bees. He's in Bristol and says there's 60 species of bees in his garden.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/my-garden-thousand-bees-about/26263/

 

[no fly zone]

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you got the US version by mistake?

 

[notabitail]

The new phone arrived. It wouldn't last a week as is.
Had to get some armour for it. This camera better be good the bloody thing is costing me money!
I've read a bit about GrapheneOS. The two things, apart from making phone calls of course which I believe this model still can, are picture quality and sound management and it is these two areas it seems from what I've read, Graphene fails in.

I'm going to see what the Google system does and what I can stop it doing and then try GrapheneOS and find out if there is a noticable difference. I know I can sandbox reasonably easily all the google stuff. What I don't know is how well/complicated it is to makr the sandbox work seamlessly with the phone.

A further point is am I really concerened about my data. For ten years in Catalonia I was untracable, no phone, someone elses internet used for BYC mainly, no credit or debit cards. Here it's virtually impossible not to be giving data to some concern or other and as for being untracable, forget it. There are cameras everywhere in Bristol, and most cities in the UK. I shop on line.
I use Whats crap to communicte with some of my family and the people at the field. I text people. The list is endless...
Does one more "leak" make any difference? Probably not in my view. I know, I know, it's the principle, but I think we're a bit late on that one.

You are correct about Graphene's failing with pictures. Sound is decent, but I have set up my Mom's phone with the sandboxed Pixel Camera and Play Store since the default Graphene camera is bloody terrible.

Google Photos' image manipulation features do work on Graphene and LineageOS, so you shouldn't be missing those.

If you need any help with Graphene or anything let me know. I'm more than happy to share the information I've got with my experiences.

 

[notabitail]

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Thanks to privacy laws if I'm not mistaken. That or it doesn't pass some kind of UK thing.

 

[notabitail]

you got the US version by mistake?

The US version says "phony" in super small text.

As in, phony Healthy Living.

 

[ChaosMom]

The US version says "phony" in super small text.

As in, phony Healthy Living.

Ahh, hahahahahahahahahahshahaha

 

[notabitail]

Ahh, hahahahahahahahahahshahaha

Don't get me started on "organic" either.

 

[BDutch]

It seems to be popular among some modern heads of state and their courtiers.

Shouldn’t you say : Signal is popular among people who mistrust the people who make an enormous amount of money with big tech? Among people who distrust the super rich who support the politicians who (try to) break down democracy?

 

[MaryJanet]

The new phone arrived. It wouldn't last a week as is.
Had to get some armour for it. This camera better be good the bloody thing is costing me money!
I've read a bit about GrapheneOS. The two things, apart from making phone calls of course which I believe this model still can, are picture quality and sound management and it is these two areas it seems from what I've read, Graphene fails in.

I'm going to see what the Google system does and what I can stop it doing and then try GrapheneOS and find out if there is a noticable difference. I know I can sandbox reasonably easily all the google stuff. What I don't know is how well/complicated it is to makr the sandbox work seamlessly with the phone.

A further point is am I really concerened about my data. For ten years in Catalonia I was untracable, no phone, someone elses internet used for BYC mainly, no credit or debit cards. Here it's virtually impossible not to be giving data to some concern or other and as for being untracable, forget it. There are cameras everywhere in Bristol, and most cities in the UK. I shop on line.
I use Whats crap to communicte with some of my family and the people at the field. I text people. The list is endless...
Does one more "leak" make any difference? Probably not in my view. I know, I know, it's the principle, but I think we're a bit late on that one.

Yeh, maintaining data privacy is not easy in an economic climate that considers your data to be someone else's business asset.