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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


  • I usually just write

    Hi,

    Please delete my account and all data associated with this email in accordance with Article 17 of GDPR, I’m an EU citizen

    Thanks x

    I just assume if they haven’t made it easy to delete your account by now then they never will but these are really good points that will hopefully make companies change their policies, especially since its all things that benefit them


  • Jc141 on 1337x and LinuxRulez on torrminatorr have repacks specifically meant to work on linux. You just have to run their bash scripts and it auto decompresses the files and sets everything up for you. Make sure to follow jc141 setup guide on github to make sure you have all the dependencies installed. https://github.com/jc141x/jc141-bash/blob/master/setup/readme.md

    For Fitgirl and Dodi repacks, Lutris is probably the easiest. I usually setup my folders similar to jc141. GameName with 2 subfolders called game and prefix. The game folder is my working directory and my prefix folder is my prefix directory. This allows me to have different wine prefixes for each game in case some games have extra dependencies that mess with other games. I point Lutris to the installer exe and run the install then afterwards I switch it to the game exe. I usually use WineGE instead of the default Lutris option for the prefixes.

    For KaOsKrew, I use a windows VM with QEMU to unpack and use sftp to transfer the files because I haven’t had any luck with getting their installer to work. I do the same with Fitgirl and Dodi repacks that have unarc errors during decompression. Then its just setting up with Lutris as normal.

    You can also add non Steam games to Steam and make them use proton, I’ve only had to do this once with RE0, I couldn’t get it to run any other way.

    r/linuxcracksupport might be helpful and I think they have a matrix chat too.