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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • The website uses google services while promoting a phone that advertises avoiding google services… And it seems to be completely broken for me on any android browser I use. Also his main website seems to use the Microsoft store logo for his store logo lol

    720 display?, it doesn’t say it has a removable battery? and can somehow promise years of software updates when they rely on third party custom ROMs for their software…

    Also I don’t know of any android phones that block replacing the battery?

    The website says 6GB RAM and the indiegogo page says 8GB RAM

    The hardware seems meh and the software is based on FOSS ROMs that support a wide variety of devices that actually exist. Ubuntu touch is advertised as Coming Soon™

    The BraX3 phone offers the most privacy-friendly location service through the Lunar Network

    Please anyone who can find the Lunar Network website, link it because right now to me it seems they’re using a now defunct minecraft server for location services

    I’ve got scammy vibes from this guy for years, even when I was new to privacy I never felt like he was reliable. Did he dub himself “the internet privacy guy” lol

    Overall, I think the phone will probably come out at some point, it’ll be kinda sucky from a hardware perspective for anyone who is used to mid range phones and the software could be fine or it could be buggy AF but I don’t think it’ll be anything special or offer anything unique enough from a privacy perspective to bother with.

    I don’t think he can guarantee software updates as he has no control over the ROMs he relies on and I would not expect any sort of support for bugs etc. I don’t think he is knowledgeable enough to trust not to have privacy/security issues with the phone, especially when his whole shtick is “privacy”

    It sucks that headphone jacks and sd cards are so hard to find in phones today but I’d prefer to use a dongle and external storage or self host and have a better refurbished phone running LineageOS or any other degoogled ROM than trust this guy.







  • Lol I spent a week going back and forth with Revolut support in august. I could sign into the app but it would always ask me for a “selfie” verification and every time support would say its a super dark selfie.

    Eventually I decided to try a stock ROM and it just worked and I realised what was happening so I transferred all of my money out and deleted my account.

    Most local banks here are terrible at making apps, some even require a separate device that looks like a calculator to use online banking, so hopefully they wont follow suit anytime soon


  • 2 accounts consistently reporting the same IP, location and user habits etc being linked is more absurd than nobody ever noticing excessive uploaded data from their phones? It is very easy to monitor the amount of uploaded and downloaded data on a device, lots of people would have noticed by now. The amount of storage, bandwidth and processing power that would be required to monitor the audio from hundreds of millions of android users globally 24/7 would make this the dumbest business decision ever when there are so many easier and efficient ways to track users.




  • I use a proton alias for any online shops that I use regularly and I have a folder set up for any emails to that alias with notifications off.

    For one off/untrusted things I use simplelogin, I have proton unlimited which includes unlimited simplelogin aliases. So each of these websites gets its own alias and if that alias starts to get spam I either turn it off or delete it.

    You can also add a mailbox in simplelogin so I added my proton shopping alias to that, this way all online shopping emails go to one folder with no notifications and my main proton shopping alias isn’t completely ruined with spam since I can delete any simplelogin accounts when needed.



  • Weirdly in this case I think I agree. You can look at my previous comments about how much I hate Apple but it seems to me that OP isn’t too technical and installing a custom ROM might not be what they’re after. iPhones don’t have any of those annoying games and stuff preinstalled, as long as the carrier doesn’t install stuff. I’d suggest a refurbished unlocked iPhone though, to save some money. Make sure the previous owners account is removed from the device or else it’ll probably just be a paper weight.

    If OP is open to custom ROMs then GrapheneOS is a great choice but LineageOS and DivestOS are also great options for someone that wants to get started with privacy and they support a lot more devices, that can be got for cheaper than an iPhone/Pixel. Again, I’d recommended a refurbished, carrier unlocked phone that is supported by one of these projects


  • Its been a little over 5 years for me now.

    For the past month or so I’ve been making Pad Thai that I’ve been calling Pad Italian because I use tomato paste and lime juice instead of tamarind paste since I’ve never been able to find it and I use spaghetti instead of noodles because I can’t find noodles that don’t have egg in them. I also swapped out tofu for lentil “tofu” because tofu has gotten so expensive here.

    Pad Thai recipe I loosely follow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CNavd3G_Qs

    Lentil “tofu” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIBCSf0e_6k

    Another one I’ve been loving recently is gardeners pie

    I undercook lentils in veg stock then use that stock to boil some frozen veg. Then use that stock to make gravy. Blend a tin of chickpeas and mix everything together with spices/seasoning. I find thick gravy and blended chickpeas help keep the lentils sticking together so it doesn’t all completely fall apart when I go to eat it.

    Boil some potatoes and sweet potatoes together and mash them and put them on top and then bake it in the oven.

    One of my favourite desserts is a no bake brownie https://rainbowplantlife.com/no-bake-nutella-fudge-bars/#wprm-recipe-container-6608

    I’ve adapted the recipe a bit, I switched out hazelnuts for a mix of whatever nuts and seeds I have and I’ve swapped the dates for raisins with a bit of water since there are rarely ever dates in stock where I shop. I heat it up in the microwave before I eat it to melt the chocolate a bit.