Safe Android replacement

[StolenWindows]

It's probably illegal, having permanent phone IDs misused by someone unlicensed but IANAL.

It may also be easier to tackle all challenges OP addresses, one by one.

Probably not, because otherwise you'd have to register the device with the proper licensing authorities (think, FCC) and you'd still need LTE access, and that's realistically the only way you could do it. By the way, I'd recommend buying the Android smartphone in cash, make sure it has good information to copy from and isn't a burner phone, and preferably you bought from a store in another state so as to further complexity in tracking you down from knowing who and where the device was bought from and so on. The problem with a Google Pixel is that evem if you were to somehow scrub the firmware, other hardware is still proprietary, like the touchscreen itself, for example. For something to be truly "Libre'd" you'd have to know the code to everything. And the only touchscreens that are fully open source are resistive USB-based HID-compliant ones used for rpis.

Another upside to device cloning is that anytime you sign into a network, it'll make the network traffic appear as background noise to the ISP. For example they might see that the device you're impersonating is connected to their network, but they won't see any traffic coming from it (unless you were using that device you cloned, which I'd throw away).

 

[StolenWindows]

Fully open workstations are still in their infancy. The only feasible one is a BeagleV Ahead cannibalized into a libre'd piphone type device that's charged with an Adafruit charger + lipo battery and a HDTV via HDMI port. Raptor Computing Systems makes fully open Talos PCs (and they're the only company that makes open source hard drives/HDDs), but they're $15,000. Plus it uses shitty PPC architecture, so compiling Gentoo is going to be a pain in the ass. Only alternative is investing in retro tech (like floppy8 ). But that would only be for niche uses. All desktop RISC-V SBCs still use proprietary GPUs and so on, so they're not ready yet. And "fully libre'd thinkpads" don't exist. Even if you scrub the firmware, you'll still have the display, which is proprietary, the hard drive, which is proprietary, and so on.

 

[Pee Cola]

The safest and least autistic Android replacement is a dumbphone, like a Nokia 3310 4G or those no-name dumbphones that are marketed to really old people.

 

[StolenWindows]

The safest and least autistic Android replacement is a dumbphone, like a Nokia 3310 4G or those no-name dumbphones that are marketed to really old people.

You can make your own dumbphone better yet. Don't buy anything from the store. You can modify it and do all sorts of hacker-ish stuff.

 

[Pee Cola]

You can make your own dumbphone better yet. Don't buy anything from the store. You can modify it and do all sorts of hacker-ish stuff.

I don't have the time or autism to do that myself, but it's good to know that even dumbphones can be modded.

 

[StolenWindows]

I don't have the time or autism to do that myself, but it's good to know that even dumbphones can be modded.

Really, if you programmed it and plugged in a 4G LTE sysmoUSIM with SiFive Hifive1 Rev B dev board in Python (PySIM, and so on). Then you can make an 80's housephone with no cord in it, w/ type c android charger w/ an Arduino. Some hackers use Arduino to make private cell networks if they control their own nodes. They're untraceable. You can sell these cloned phones on thd Dark web and turn $50 in low end SBC RISC-V equipment w/ BeagleV Ahead/Starlight SBCs and operating their own eNodeB with Faraday protection and essentially self-hosting their own network connection. You can go from vatnik to bitcoin king in minutes.