Re:Those of you who are daily driving Linux, what are your o...
by microtonal on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:21AM
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switching to Apple for everything except Linux on my laptop [...] better than Android
Potayto, potahto. If you monitor an iPhone (e.g. with a DNS blocking service), iPhones continously talk to Apple as well. Also they choose weak defaults to undermine privacy and security, such as not enabling ADP by default, causing iPhone iCloud backups to be encrypted at rest only.
If you are already using Linux and Android, the best thing you can probably do is to move to GrapheneOS on the phone. GrapheneOS is the most secure general purpose smartphone OS and by default it does not ship with any proprietary Google stuff except for device firmware. If you need Play Services for certain apps, then you can install it through the GrapheneOS app store. In contrast to Google-certified Android, Play Services will run inside a sandbox like any other app, severely impeding data collection that Google can do.
Potayto, potahto. If you monitor an iPhone (e.g. with a DNS blocking service), iPhones continously talk to Apple as well. Also they choose weak defaults to undermine privacy and security, such as not enabling ADP by default, causing iPhone iCloud backups to be encrypted at rest only.
If you are already using Linux and Android, the best thing you can probably do is to move to GrapheneOS on the phone. GrapheneOS is the most secure general purpose smartphone OS and by default it does not ship with any proprietary Google stuff except for device firmware. If you need Play Services for certain apps, then you can install it through the GrapheneOS app store. In contrast to Google-certified Android, Play Services will run inside a sandbox like any other app, severely impeding data collection that Google can do.