• A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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    3 days ago

    Telegram requires a phone number, last I checked

    (which is ironically going the opposite route nowadays)

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      3 days ago

      Well, I was worried about losing contact with the bots when I cancel my phone service, but maybe I won’t have to ;)

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          2 days ago

          I’m not switching, I’m cutting the phone entierly, no point in spending $100 a month to pay for spyware in my pocket as they keep taking features I want out and shoving more AI I don’t into them all while destroyihng encryption and extending the data collection and sales.

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            23 hours ago

            You should try GrapheneOS. It has none of that bullshit, and you don’t need to pay $100 per month if you use a cheaper sub brand like Visible or Mint instead of main Verizon/T-Mobile.

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              14 hours ago

              If I could get it on payments like they do Googlified ones I would, can’t afford to drop the cash for a Pixel to flash, or to order one with Graphene on it already.

              Already on Lineage for the old tablet, and it mostly works, though they don’t sandbox Play Services like Graphene does so I just don’t have them on there.