there are unofficial builds around + you can build for yourself i you have a high-end linux desktop

it is usually a good idea to buy the flagship of the last year at summer. I did that and never regretted it

Fairphone 5, Shift6mq, Oneplus 11, Xperia Pro 1, Motorola Edge 40 pro. Avoid ios like wildfire. I use an iPad and it is buggy, expensive, and full of spyware, really bad if you want any privacy (and it doesn’t have custom rom support at all)

you are on the privacy lemmy, i hope you realize that. iPhones are as anti-privacy as possible

https://alternativeto.net/software/twitter/?license=opensource&p=2

in 2017 my biggest concerns were that whether i can play PS3 with broken hand or not (i could)

first time? I was banned from reddit entirely 8 times

i can agree on a few stuff, and can’t on some others. I just choose the most private options aviable that still serve the purpose i use them for. Like if you can find something on Google Play, Aurora, F-droid, obviously, it is better to download from f-droid, but if you have a bit more time, it is even better to download from source or even compile it yourself. But it always upsets me when people ask for privacy tips when using ios or windows, like are you joking or what? ditch those lol. And obviously, as a gamer, i wouldn’t use purist linux oses, like PureOS, because it can have serious issues with games. But i won’t buy nvidia if i want to game on linux, when i can get amd with open-source drivers on distros like Garuda. So i think a reasonable privacy can’t hurt anyone, but moving on just the next little step or going into the extremes are both not good ideas

it is actually real

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/110331/is-it-possible-to-compleately-and-utterly-brick-a-phone-with-no-chance-of-repair#110334

btw some xiaomi devices support edl mode EVEN in hardbricked state so Mi Flash tool might work too

some of them do

it will brick

i didn’t, but it is possible, altrough, not straightforward and requires some knowledge. I have an aosp-based custom rom, vanilla InfinityXOS (previously Superior-Extended). I have Poco X3 Pro btw. And because of how bootloader unlocking works, it is not a two-way process on xiaomi devices. Once you unlock it, there is no going back. If you try, it will hard brick and you can get a JTAG or something to reprogram the soc capacitors (doesn’t worth trying, there isn’t any single known xiaomi phone that didn’t brick upon an attempt to relock the bootloader)

third world means neither usa, nor east (Russia-China) sympathizer. This phrase is also commonly used to refer to countries with developing, weaker economies. Now USA is neither. Americans can deny, ease, erase, paint the history built on racism and conservativism, it will always rise up to the top. This is exactly what happened again. Shame on everyone who voted valid. No matter for who. Invalid voters and non-voters did right. Democracy has always enabled the most vile to rank up to the top. We heard about Peistratos and Hitler, who were enabled to commit heinous crimes against humanity, while being democratically elected. This is why anarchism, despite its vulrenabilities, is still the best system, that actually works very well in smaller communities.

i use a customization-oriented aosp custom rom (vanilla version, no google). It is already very private but there is more private than this, but that seriously restricts usability and visual appeal

if you have a xiaomi phone with GrapheneOS, NEVER, REALLY, NEVER!! relock the bootloader

mullvad is overrated, i agree. use riseup, calyx, strongswan

Invizible pro, Cromite, Apktool M/MT Manager (for manually reverse engineering apps), App Manager (for finding spywares in apps), Warden (for disabling them)

Use Invizible pro. much better to run it separately, global to the system

i mainly choose countries with strong dmca laws, anti-piracy, and authoritian regimes that might have some global influence and actual internet infrastructure

i use riseup, but calyx and strongswan is also good if you can’t host your own