A feature phone is somewhere in between a true “dumb phone” and just a basic smartphone. In practice there’s a grey area, but feature phones can do some basic basic stuff with 2G and 3G data. Feature phones vary, and sometimes only have a carrier or manufacturer app store, so sideloading Signal and just not accepting video posts would be possible on a phone from 2005 or so.

But since the feature phone market is very niche in developed countries, it’s not the same as just all the phones running on one of two operating systems.

To answer the question of how does one install Signal on a feature phone? It will really vary by phone. Likely just moving a JSON file or something onto a the phone, but just a guess.

Depends on the phone I imagine. Whatever you search for online will be just as good as anything I search for and regurgitate back to you. Why trust me as a filter for knowledge when you can search for answers yourself?

I was thinking Lineage and wrote Graphine. That’s my bad, but as others have said, Lineage isn’t exactly privacy focused, just not Googley.

https://josebriones.org/dumbphone-finder

Take your pick.

Just get a dumb phone, or a basic feature phone that gets 3G and maybe WhatsApp. They will be 20% of the price of even a cheap smartphone.

If you really want to commit to Graphine, their website lists phones they support. Maybe look on the website to see what you have access to and can afford.

Honestly, how do you expect to install the OS when you can’t even search the website to look at the list of supported devices? It’s not hidden info.

I love a good e-ink device, but this seems performative. FFS, just get a dumb phone.

As someone that almost drown in a ripcurrent off of Ghana and Sao Time very sober both times, it can happen very quickly, and you need help before you even understand what’s happening. In places where beaches aren’t huge and the shelf drops off quickly, you don’t realize you’re on the edge of a dangerous area because it’s unmarked.

It was because that was mentioned by the original post as why they picked all blue. Which was largely about the GDPR specifically. So I went for it on that one item.

I appreciate it, and I threw this together in about 10 minutes, so it’s just a spitball idea. Rather than seeming purely disparaging to the other person and their design by saying I don’t like it and not offering anything else constructive.

I mean, I can think of a few black flags that are iconic.

Not to mention the band Black Flag.

I do like this version better than the other one with the detailed hand. That being said, to your point about data security, it’s more so that we’re sort of splitting a finite set of motifs. Even the icon for this community is a shield and an eye. The eye being the threat, not the community represented by the flag, IMO means minimizing the eye, though I can see how you would feel the “stop” hand in the eye does the same thing. I just don’t agree with that.

Also, just me personally, the all-blue just seems boring to me. This blue is slightly bluer, so it doesn’t give me the BSOD vibe at least, but this just seem closer to a logo for a data removal subscription service than a flag. Not that mine isn’t exactly far from that either, but still.

Well, if anything, the dove just goes away as being too cheesey.

I was going to bet anything I was going to click and it would say “More cowbell!”

Pleasantly surprised, thank you.

I loved the idea, but I object to the symbology.

First off, we’re against being seen. Why would we want a big creepy eye as the definition of success? Did Pirate flags show shackles and gallows? Of course not.

What are common pictograms associated with privacy? Shields. Locks. Locks on shields. Privacy is about defense and control.

Second, the blue gives me BSOD vibes. I get the EU reference, but black is super obvious here. Black it out. Redacted. Blind. All right there.

My suggestions? A shield or lock with dove at its center. Because the mass surveillance state is one of fear, not freedom or peace. Black field with blue and white stripes, white representing freedom, blue as you have it, and I guess giving a nod to Estonia’s leadership in EU tech. Not that we need to rep Estonia, but I also liked their Eurovision entry this year.

This should be in NotTheOnion

Project 2029? Even their strategy document name is cringe.

Totally shocking that LibreOffice would crash and be janky on Win 11, but works like a dream on OS X and Linux.

Hmm…why could that be…hmmm…

Freetube or Librewolf (preferably via DDG search)

Cycle through VPN locations until you get a winner if you get a block. It’s annoying, but the purpose of a VPN is to let you look like you’re anywhere. So find a good spot to watch YT and then just settle in.

It’s because they want to do the Skydance merger.

The “financial decision” is “We want money money money money, we’ll do anything! Look! Look! We’ll fuckin’ fire one of our highest rating earners. You like that, Papa T? We did that to make you love us ;)”

PragerU is like, all-caps conservative.

So would New York contract the Church of Satan to get the same program going?

This is literally the last person on earth that understands this as the situation.