So I got Fairphone 4, with /e/ os, a couple of days ago. When I connected it to my NextDNS I saw that it was trying to connect to some weird addresses, like every 5-10 minutes. I searched Internet a bit and found out that it was something with snapdragon cpu and location services. I travel a lot and use Organic Maps for navigation, so location was enabled almost all day on the phone. I turned off location services and connections stopped, and everything was fine for a couple of days.
Today I came home, checked logs in NextDNS and saw that phone started doing the same connections almost constantly even with location turned off.
Can I do something about this, other than allowing these connections? These connections are probably so numerous because they are getting blocked. If I allowed them, phone would maybe call home once in a couple of hours. I would rather not allow them, but I don’t want 20% of battery to be eaten by this.
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Banking, usable gps navigation with live traffic, workout tracker that can read and log gps and data from my Polar H10 and smartwatch.
I use online banking and Garmin smartwatch so when Linux phone becomes mainstream, I don’t be locked down
plus it looks like WhatsApp is getting interoperability and we may see a semi open source Linux client
You want a Linux phone but then use whatsapp? Just wow
yeah
everyone I know uses WhatsApp
and privacy is not an incentive for them to switch over to signal because again, everyone they know also uses WhatsApp
Everybody I know uses whatsapp, but they also use threema because every time I get asked for whatsapp I tell them that I am only on threema.
Worked out fine. Everybody that actually wants to chat with me got it. And after some privacy related whatsapp news they made their friends migrate and so on.
For other cases there is plain old calls and emails. Chat is really just a small convenience and not necessary at all. I’d never sacrifice my privacy for.