Which tutorial were you following?

Which version of Ubuntu are you using?

The separation between software and hardware is not nearly as distinct as your comment suggests. Beyond (sometimes replaceable) firmware there’s microcode and embedded systems with their own software inside modules like the modem that allows your phone to actually talk to the network.

Do you see the irony associated with buying hardware from the same company who’s software you actively want to remove?

I’m happy for you to quote me, but it does require that you actually quote what I said rather than what you think I said.

Specifically I said:

As far as I can tell, this post is an advertisement for Graphene OS. In real world terms, in my opinion, it adds nothing of substance to the privacy or security landscape.

I did not state that Graphene OS didn’t add to the security landscape, though that’s how you interpreted it. Using “it adds nothing”, I was referring to the article linked in the OP. Could I have worded this better, sure. Did I say what you think I said, no.

This is helpful.

Only one problem.

Graphene OS only runs on 16 models of phone, Google Pixels. I’ve bought a dozen or so Google hardware devices over the years and I refuse to go through that abysmal experience ever again.

Graphene OS might be amazing for all I know, but only supporting Google hardware makes it a joke in the real world outside of the Google fanboy bubble.

As for deleting all the content of your phone, what makes you think that border security or law enforcement won’t access your data directly from your backup on Google’s cloud?

As far as I can tell, this post is an advertisement for Graphene OS. In real world terms, in my opinion, it adds nothing of substance to the privacy or security landscape.

Nice to hear from you!

Yes, same person, same podcast, every day a new adventure.

FYI, you can get the podcast via email if you prefer text. https://podcasts.vk6flab.com/podcasts/foundations#h.p_5mvxhfPqGKj6

I’ve been eyeing off my own PlutoSDR and have experimented with various firmware projects, most recently played with a project that offers a web interface to a waterfall display of the spectrum. https://maia-sdr.org/

A while ago I also patched the dump1090 tool to use open street map,. https://github.com/vk6flab/dump1090

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The real question is: Why?

Here’s some answers to your question:

1. Backup your data, nuke the drive, start again.
2. chroot is the tool for the job. Backup your data before you accidentally nuke your drive.
3. Shrink the partition and write a new one in the empty space, but backup your data before you accidentally nuke your drive.
4. Connect an external drive, install on it, but backup your data before you accidentally nuke your drive.

Finally, the reason that the wiki didn’t help is that the question is asked by either a person with not enough experience, or one who doesn’t need the wiki. This is a non trivial process and you should backup your data before you proceed, lest you accidentally nuke your drive.

Edit:

Also, anything you break can be fixed … but only if you have a backup.

Please do not make blanket statements like this without context or evidence. Electrical systems across the world are not implemented in the same way, which is why you need to discuss this with your locally authorised electrician.

Is there an echo in here … echo in here … in here … here …

I created a list. No doubt there are more. Please add.

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SSTV is discouraged :-)

The long list is the permissions as the Google Play store presents it.

Below each app column shows empty if that permission is not required, or shows the permission if it is.

I’m not sure how else you feel that this information should be presented.

As far as vague goes, that’s my point. We grant permissions to launch an app with often little or no thought as to their interactions, like calender contacts and internet, or files and internet, or system permissions.

I recently explored the android app permissions for Telstra which requires so you can manage your phone. Then I checked Optus, Boost, CBA, NAB, ANZ, gmail, chrome and Tesla to name a few.

Privacy should not be optional.

Here’s what I found:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTl3_RWZmVNPmMYKF7Go2eHgvT6e1expOkbkXzjnRYY72L3RADKS-NaEX2eoDwN-ig0mWAmOogws3bx/pubhtml

The spying, as you call it, at the OS level is one thing, the data leakage at an App level is a different thing entirely. The lengths that the Google Play store goes to hide permissions and the poor level of granularity, let alone the wholesale outsourcing of service critical applications and their “required” permissions is beyond the pale and not regulated, let alone enforced, in any way.

For shits and giggles, you should check the permissions associated with your bank, telco, government, medical and other life essential applications, never mind the ones you use for entertainment.

I think it was Guy Kawasaki in 1997 who introduced me to the idea of eating your own dog food. In other words, use your own product.

Given how much Altman is pushing this dog and pony show, I’m happy to trust ChatGPT with his medical fate, which will no doubt reveal just how much this AI is Assumed Intelligence, or in less technical terms, snake oil.

Is this Worker Satisfaction … or Hotel California?

It’s an interesting stance, but ask yourself, where is the line between advertising and promotion or sponsorship.

I think that requiring that advertising is factual might be a better way to address the issue.

Ultimately as a society we haven’t come up with a better way to communicate the existence of products and services to each other, and we’ve been using advertising for 5,000 years or so.

https://tripandtravelblog.com/the-oldest-advertisement-in-the-world-found-in-thebes-egypt-did-you-know-that/

A till.

And an accounting package.

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