I want a Computer that I Own

• universal-android-debloater

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Universal Android Debloater can remove them without root, using ADB (Android Debug Bridge): https://gitlab.com/W1nst0n/universal-android-debloater/

In case you do want to install a custom Android distribution (ROM) to clean out the Samsung bloat more thoroughly, the risk of hard-bricking your phone is almost non-existent nowadays. The worst that can happen is usually a soft-brick which can be fixed by reinstalling the original OS. As for Play Store, most custom ROMs either include or support installing Google services and Play Store with full functionality.

(disclaimer: I work on custom kernels and ROMs)

• GmsCore

  429 7,043 9.5 Java

  Free implementation of Play Services

  

Well I have completely degoogled mine [1], but it comes with problems like reversing banking application as it uses safetynet. Luckily I am quite profound at that.

Bottom line, it is doable, but I want a working linux phone, where camera and calls/sms/mms work and I dont use any newage communication software, so I dont care.

I hoped Cosmo Communicator[2] would be it but they didn't support the camera and since I am using it for taking notes, it is vital for me. Actually I even went into making degoogled rom for CC but I got stuck at selinux blatantly abused to prevent modifications and maybe some day I will recompile the kernel to kick it out.

[1] https://microg.org/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• thepyphone

  2 7 0.0 Python

  Voice and SMS/MMS on a Raspberry Pi 3B+

>> Modern smartphones however, seem like walled gardens in which I have no control at all.

By design, I think.

>> I am locked into a single OS on my smartphone, which either spies on you or is locked down even more. Every iteration a bit more control is taken away from the user.

I got so fed up with this, I abandoned the whole mobile infrastructure and built my own phone with a Raspberry Pi 3B+. The Raspberry Pi is pretty open hardware (yes, I'm aware it's not perfect). For software I used Python 3, C and GTK. It does voice and SMS/MMS only, but that is enough for me.

I built it for myself. It's stable enough that I use it as my daily driver.

I am in the process of open sourcing the code and putting" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/another2020githubuser/thepyphone">putting it out on github.

I truly hope an open hardware smart phone becomes available soon. Until then, I'll use my home grown PyPhone to get by.

• me_cleaner

  97 4,352 0.0 Python

  Tool for partial deblobbing of Intel ME/TXE firmware images

The Intel Core 2 Duo was the last CPU where the "Management Engine" could be completely wiped and disabled.

This is my experience in removing the ARC firmware code from two different HP desktops:

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/233

These PCs are quite inexpensive. I run OpenBSD with hardened Chrome on one of them, for all of my finances.

• AltStore

  823 11,021 9.4 Swift

  AltStore is an alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices.

  

You can use AltStore to easily sideload apps to your iPhone without a developer account[0]. You only need to be on the same WiFi network as your computer once every 7 days to "refresh" the sideloaded app.

[0] https://altstore.io/

• hardened_malloc

  652 1,158 7.7 C

  Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability / integration over time.

  

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