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      I was trying to figure out how graphene would achieve this. By smearing some on the pins? But then why graphene and not just graphite? And how do you keep the charging pins from being shorted?

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      I highly recommend graphene.

      And for anyone going to a protest to get a cheap burner and flash graphene, then leave your normal phone at home. You can swap phones on your plan pretty easily.

      Alternatively, for the very paranoid, go set up a prepaid and anon line and move your device there. Pay cash for the card and set it up online at a public library.

      Especially if you’re planning on a little civil disobedience.

      Just a reminder, if police think something is about to go down, they’ll spoof the tower and collect device information… including things like phone numbers so if your suddenly changing behavior to go somewhere and do something the fascists dickfucks in office won’t like… best be paranoid.

      A second device will still at least keep them from getting all your personal shit. And seriously, Don’t just turn off your normal phone. Leave it at home.

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        Just don’t bring any device to a protest if you consider bringing a burner device.

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          there is something to be said about being connected to others. particularly for protests that move around or so you can let people know you’re driving home etc vs locked up for bullshit.

          it’s also convenient as a form of souseveillance. Just remember pictures and video are evidence, that cuts both ways; especially in the face of cops being excessive.

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              Unless you happen to live fairly close… which is fairly not likely…. So you drive to a rally point or someplace near some transit (or with plausible deniability,) etc. to get in.

              Or just conceal your plates and don’t drive something flashy,

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                Anyway, where are these protests americans are talking about? All I see are people complaining online while trump runs a ruckus in the oval office

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                  protests are happening everywhere, in every state, though they’re mostly small. the news isn’t covering a lot of them because there’s no rioters and the news can’t push a narrative that people hate trump.

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        You can swap phones on your plan pretty easily.

        Are sim cards not a think anymore?

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          Not really.

          Most new phones use other identifiers. You might be able to buy very cheap prepaid phones or cards for them, but they’re going away from swappable sims.

          For most carriers, if you occasionally want to swap to a different device it’s just a matter of going to your account online and swapping it (for example, travel. It’s safer to use a clean device rather than your normal phone. Both for border crossings and everything else.)

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        GrapheneOS is too locked down, so unless you are in need of high security, it is not really the best experience

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          You can permit absolutely everything and make it just as bad as the stock OS if you want to.

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            if that were the case i would still use it. however there was no way i could give Gadget-Bridge the “display over other apps” permission

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              I don’t remember offhand, but I think that’s buried in a restricted settings area… I needed it for something I can’t remember now.

              Edit:

              Settings > Apps >Special app access > Display over other apps

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                i looked in every sensible sub menu, and i could give other apps the permission, just not Gadget-Bridge. on lineageks it worked instantly

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                  Settings > Apps > Special app access > Display over other apps

                  This advice is partially correct, but enabling the feature requires an additional step. While you can try toggling it on from that menu, you’ll see a warning and what appears to be a non-clickable (?) link about learning more.

                  To fully enable it, go to the app’s Permissions screen, tap the three dots in the top-right corner, and enable Access to restricted settings first. Once that’s done, you should be able to turn on Display over other apps successfully.

                  It doesn’t feel like users have a clear path to enabling this feature without that link working in the warning.

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      Isn’t that possible in normal android? 😮 iPhone is doing this by default as soon as it is locked long enough

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        The iOS doesn’t disable the port, if you connect to a Linux machine and see the dmesgs you’ll see the phone communicating with the host and reporting lockdown mode so your software can indicate you to unlock the device. But is still sending data about itself, and if you put the device in recovery mode and is vulnerable to a bootrom exploit the contents of the flash could theoretically be dumped without the need for a password. Without mentioning the data that could be extracted and used to profile/fingerprint such as MAC Address, SN, IMEI, ICCID of your SIM, etc…

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    More likely it’s just accumulated some grime after all that time in your pocket

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      Yup, it’s more often than not bellybutton lint buildup. Can be cleaned out carefully with a thin toothpick or plastic cocktail sword

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    I just changed the USB port of my Motorola because it was broken AF. I always had to tweak around for 5 minutes to get the cable stable enough for loading, it sucked. I bought the spare part for 17,90€ on eBay. It was a struggle removing the back cover, but now I have a mobile for another 2 years!