A Nokia smartphone because:

1. They are cheap
2. All Nokia smartphones guarantee three years of security upgrades, something very rare in cheap Android phones, this is usually reserved to high end models.
3. They are not owned by the Chinese. The brand is owned by Microsoft and they sold to HMD Global, a Finnish company, the rights to build phones with the brand.

HMD Global announces three years of OS updates for mid-range Nokia devices https://www.notebookcheck.net/HMD-Global-announces-three-years-of-OS-updates-for-mid-range-Nokia-devices-two-years-for-budget-handsets-and-not-necessarily-anything-for-the-Nokia-C-series.531561.0.html

I believe that you must be whitelisted in order to be able to create a forum. See the comment under this post.

no i dont see any button. u r lying. tell me truth

https://ramble.pw/wiki/howto_better

Riddle me this: how come the only way for 4chan to see if you're a human is by demanding a Google "captcha" that invades the whole computer with spy scripts? If Google is hunting for clusters there, seems like there's a reason.

The U.S. had a choice. Freedom or tyranny. The purity of abandoning the strange doctrine that speech, that information is inherently evil, rather than evidence of evil. Or censorship that devours everything, destroys everything, collaborates with every tyrant around the world.

And we see how they chose.

The ban on child porn creates a market for child porn and the fresh abuse of children to make those images from scratch, like printing money. The refusal to acknowledge a private space - ANYWHERE - means that foreign governments can just go ahead and send their notices that the Hanzi for "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" looks like a cartoon child rape, which of course is JUST AS BAD as a real one. It doesn't matter whether children are raped, but whether people THINK about them getting raped, let alone SEE them getting raped and start asking inconvenient questions about whether there is something they could actually DO to stop it.

This is the society where colleges control dissemination of information with an iron fist, lest something politically incorrect be said, even if it means that students have to play in Covid-infested classrooms to get something approximating an educational experience.

This is the society that never goes to China with anything but demands that they censor the software pirates, censor the servers doing lookups for racist websites, censor the cruelty to animals, crack down on drugs and products that might compete with name brands ... then says look at us, we stand for FREEDOM.

Now, nobody sane trusted Apple anyway, and yet, emergencies come up and security tossed to the winds. If you're a dissident from another country facing constant deportation, or some nutcase trying to protest a pipeline or an election or a race issue, I bet you have a lot of emergencies.

This isn't the first, maybe not even the worst. The CARS. God told Lot, "Go out and find me *ten competent techies with the honesty to report on and fight back against 1984, and Democracy will be spared". Lot came back with... https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avagd/car-location-data-not-anonymous-otonomo

We got NOBODY. The internet must burn, the libraries must burn, the cities must burn, the vaccine will not be given, the virus will mutate, the people will die, the civilization will die, all things will pass away, and every few DAYS there is another harbinger like this that points the way to doom.

no i just know from other peoples experience. pine phone would be awesome if it had faster hardware and better software. from what i understand apps load slow the whole os is slow.

Also, meh.

Lemmy community didn’t seem to impressed with anything here, but personally I don’t care either. A community that censors its users actions and speech isn’t deemed interesting to me and never will be. Ramble is a very good community regardless of being usable far right/far left who cares.

Sounds good. Can’t wait for the server move, will be good for the future and hope your hosting business goes well.

If i recall the new models of iPhone have virtual sim cards. I side with you that a SIM in 2021 is pointless. The next day 2 years I think it will be all virtual.

I remember old Nokia brick phones and Motorola Razr flips from when I was younger. Galaxy is a very good phone to this day, I have a Note a while back and loved it, till I smashed it to bits at a concert. I never usually get a phone fixed when I break it I usually just buy a new one.

I have two mobile phones I use currently. Don’t ask why because I’m not entirely sure, I use a iPhone X on a daily basis and I usually bring my Oppo Find X3 around.

:( did you get one? what are some of the problems you've been having with it?

good

I might look into it. I used Lineage OS on the Essential Ph-1 and it was even slower than the stock ROM.

You should be able to use Lineage OS on your 8 Pro: https://lineageosroms.com/instantnoodlep/

I should try this I2P stuff. I have this site's clearnet and TOR address bookmarked, but I haven't tired using I2P.

PinePhone suckssse you prob like me just like the idea of it. In reality the hardware sucks and so does the software.

Yeah, the provider that hosts the site now did planned maintenance on a VPS node. I got the email three days prior, but didn't read it. -_-

Anytime the server gets rebooted it's usually down a long time because I have to connect to it and enter the encryption passphrase to unlock the storage. I have a monitoring alert setup but emails don't wake me up. This causes things that'd normally take the site down for a minute or two to last hours as the server remains 'on' but inaccessible since it's not fully booted until I do my part.

With that said, I'm moving the site to it's final home in the coming month. I own a small web hosting company, and we got hardware going online in the Netherlands within the next couple of days. We own our own IP space and am just waiting for it to be announced at the DC before we can start setting stuff up. Give me a couple of weeks before I get around to getting ramble moved over. All existing points of access should continue to work without having to do any readdressing (Tor, I2P, Yggdrasil and obviously the clearnet)

I noticed that the clearnet site was down a couple days ago. Any news on that?

No problem! I'll be using Yggdrasil a lot more moving forward. I found out that I can easily use it to serve HTTP tunnels from the I2P network aswell, so sites like ramble.i2p now go <-- visitor --><-- i2p network --><-- yggdrasil tunnel--><--website--> (whereas before the tunnel was served over the clearnet)

tube.i2p works the same way, and I've been listening to albums through it all night long with no issues.

I've been searching github/lab the last hour or so looking for cool projects to host on the network as well. Any suggestions on a good addition?

Great to see, thanks for bringing Ramble onto the new network!

I admire your persistence, but what a completely pointless exercise.

I've never had a smartphone. I currently still use an old candybar style Nokia phone. It can call and text and has tetris. But I want a PinePhone!!!

Idk 😹