Depending on what that means
It means they can find out where it was purchased and by whom.
Just a regular old midrange smartphone. E.g. the original Samsung Galaxy A-series.
Still runs Android.
Some of them will, sure
All of them. Again, this is required by Android ToS.
Google is not available in China
Are we talking about China? If you live in China your cell phone is the least of your concerns. They don’t need it.
what are you really worried about?
If you’re asking this question then you’re not paying attention to what’s happening with the current US admin. We’re entering a vengeful dictatorship. Hence the name of the protest.
That burner phone can still be traced back to you.
That burner phone is likely going to require you to sign into a Google account with a phone number before it will do absolutely anything. All “feature phones” are running some form of Android, and Android requires this in their ToS.
No Silicon Valley are the ones throwing these things away because it costs them too much money to deal with old unreliable PCs.
At some point donations become unsustainable. Like literally their options are to start charging or close up shop.
The smarter thing to do would be to rotate instances on sign-up to decentralize the Matrix-verse but it’s probably too late now.
A RPi is going to be smaller, quieter, and 10x more energy efficient though…
Why are we using bitly? 🤦
Jokes on them, I already watch videos at 0.5x
Well. I haven’t told this story before because it just happened a few days ago.
People around here don’t like to promote software the doesn’t meet the OSI definition of FOSS
The vanilla apps are constantly making bloat connections. (Atleast 8k-10k on adguard app per day)
Those connections are not being made. AdGuard is blocking them and then logging them for your review. That’s it’s job.
The best way to prevent them from even trying to make these connections is to use a 3rd party app. But both companies try to stop you from doing that because they profit off of those connections.
So you used to hang out with your friends
Yes
I called the local HVAC company and they had an AI rep. The thing literally couldn’t even schedule an appointment and I couldn’t get it to transfer me to a human. I called someone else. They never even called me back so they probably don’t even know they lost my business.
You realized I said “replaced”?
And what does it have to do with smartphones?
You said they make us “more social”. I said they don’t.
You think that “social media” is “antisocial”? Well, then write it as “ban social media”
Also acceptable.
Social media has replaced and ruined real human interaction.
Pretty sad that that’s necessary. I’m good with CoMaps, thanks.
I honestly don’t even know what you’re trying to say.
…well that’s an interesting (bad) presumption.
Then do them. It’s still not going to decrease the energy use of your server.