Team Teddy

Well there’s a lot more companies that produce flip phones than two and I’ve heard good things about a couple brands

I think they should keep the murderous name, because at this point who DOESNT want AI dead?

I’ve been thinking about it for a while. Back when I started getting more serious about internet privacy I had the idea of switching to a de-Googled phone but when I found out that’d be expensive as hell I had a second idea to get a flip phone and spread out what I use it for across devices. My laptop for services like YouTube and streaming, MP3 player for music, a digital camera for my camera, etc. Also expensive but the individual devices are cheaper so I can more easily slowly chip away at it, first thing I’m getting is an MP3 player because I got my Dad to buy me one for Christmas.

I got my computer in 2022 and switched to Linux this year so for a 3 year period I got to experience Windows 11 get worse in real time. Co-Pilot being built in is what completely broke me I think.

Thanks for this, I’ve been slowly trying to move to new services now I’m just waiting to get a new phone that can be De-Google’d

It couldn’t be that hard to make new code that achieves the same thing with the new taskbar.

Since my Dad wasnt able to get me a Google Pixel I’m honestly considering a dumbphone at this point. Make my Samsung a glorified MP3 player.

For me its less “I have nothing to hide” and more “I am literally forced to use this because I have no other option”

Samsung because I cannot afford a Google Pixel that still supports GrapheneOS, I didn’t get the money I needed

Steam because I can’t play my games without them

Amazon cause that’s the only online store my parents will buy from 99% of the time

And Discord because all my friends are on there and I cant get them to move, plus there’s currently not a very good Discord alternative imo

Unfortunatley I don’t have the balls to delete mine, because doing so would make me lose years of emails and files and youtube videos.

I’ve heard that there’s phones that use Linux, so I imagine once modifying Android isn’t an option focus will probably go into making that more viable.

Something you learn quick about degoogling is that there’s just some services that cannot ever match up with their product. Google Maps is one of those products.

The main issue with YouTube alternatives that makes people not want to move is they can no longer watch their favorite creators because none of them want to move from YouTube. Especially the ones whos entire JOB is making YouTube content.