HiramFromTheChi

Interesting. Definitely test it out. Plus, it’s not like GOS is permanent. Your can always revert to OEM Android if needed.

I can’t emphasize how important it is for you to control your phone, especially notifications. Every notification is literally a mind hijacking attempt. Regardless of the type of notification, it’s something that disrupts our thinking and our flow.

Some of them are necessary—but most aren’t.

All the native apps will of course try to get as much permission from you as possible, including notifications. Don’t allow this permission freely.

Get really strict about which apps need to send you notifications, and when. Take it from a dude who used to give free reign to all apps for notifications.

Once I started thinking in a more digitally minimalistic way, it made a huge difference.

Running GrapheneOS actually helped with this a lot. But you don’t need GOS to do this and feel the difference.

I got some notifications turned on, but most of em are silent. So they still get delivered, but they’re not time-sensitive. They’ll be there when I check my phone next. I don’t need em interrupting whatever I was doing or thinking.

TL;DR: Be strict about which notifications you allow, and when. It’ll do wonders for your thinking, productivity, and mental health.

Isn’t that part of the problem? There shouldn’t be that many links. That’s sorta the point.

In reality, if they were all catalogued, there would be hundreds of thousands, maybe millions.

Also: The most important part of this page is the essential reads section. That part doesn’t change.

Whether you read em yourself or send em to your person to read—that’s up to you.

But the point of that is to gather arguments and POVs that you might otherwise miss and apply to your offline life.

I, for example, really like Schneier’s essay. It’s very concise and powerful in translating the “why.”

I sent this to an old family member who doesn’t know the first thing about technology, and they understood it.

If it’s not helpful to you, then it is what it is. Might be to someone else.

idcaboutprivacy

One of my ideas for increasing GrapheneOS market share is to market GOS as the minimalist phone so many crave.

In recent times, I’ve stumbled across a handful of articles about how dumbphones are back, and how people crave more minimalist phones to curb smartphone addiction or otherwise.

GrapheneOS is a great minimalist phone that’s still “smart,” yet secure and private.

GOS is a way better option than dumbphones because:

1. Chances are you’ll need some sort of smartphone functionality. For example: Digital “live” tickets that you can’t screenshot and need to be opened on your phone directly (Ticketmaster, MLB, etc.)
2. Using a dumbphone reverts you to older technologies and protocols, like cell towers and SMS. These are inherently insecure and shouldn’t be used anymore. So even though you might “feel” like you’re better off, your communications (text, audio, video) take a huge leap backwards in terms of privacy and security.