Chinese spyware company Lenovo

I'd much rather give my data to a Chinese company than a USian one.

If you don't know all of your accounts made with this account, you might want to wait for 2-3 years to get mails about accounts you forgot about. I think it's safe after that point. I did this before I finally delete my Google account and actually got some mails like these.

I'm still using Pixel 6a bought 3 years ago and only had battery replaced mostly due to "security concern" on pixel phones, but now it holds up to 2 full days without charging when not heavy used.

I'm using average 4,5 out of 6GB of ram, phone runs perfectly smooth with no clutters and is reasonably sized to hold and use comfortably.

If not upcoming EOL, I wouldn't change it for another 3 years or even more. I really dont understand why people need those pumped up 7" bricks with computing power of older PC and price of an used car.

I heard keepass was going hard on the AI. Is that true? I can’t find much about it tbh.

I can't tell you much about that, other than

• I've never heard about that
• they haven't got an agents.md or similar giveaway files in their Github repo that suggest they do
• they do have a short paragraph about GenAI in their Github that reads:

  Generative AI is fast becoming a first-party feature in most development environments, including GitHub itself. If the majority of a code submission is made using Generative AI (e.g., agent-based or vibe coding) then we will document that in the pull request. All code submissions go through a rigorous review process regardless of the development workflow or submitter.

Personally, I don't mind devs using GenAI if it's used in a responsible fashion, i.e.

• it is used to support software engineering, not replace it: any actual creative / design work is done by humans, GenAI is only there to help with simple, but tedious tasks (writing smaller, easy-to-review code snippets, unit testing, etc.).
• there's a human at the helm, meaning: every line of code is human-reviewed.

Also, I tend to trust projects more whose code base started long before GenAI was a thing. Typically, these have a large base of maintainers and contributors, and the people contributing code know what they're doing. This is certainly true of Keepass.

Don't. The signup procedure requires a smartphone now, so it might be useful to have another gmail id if you need it, without further compromising your privacy.

So, I have a non Google, non Microsoft, and non apple email account.

1. Main alias is only used to login.
2. 2nd alias is my main for family & friends if needed (no SM so this is for invites, etc)
3. Next alias is used for forwards from anything from my old hotmail (mostly for Xbox), gmail, etc. This way I know it's not important, but it's "accessible". Plus, not MS nor Screwgle know my real email address.
4. My junk aliases (3) is for any Sign ups, accts, etc. Mostly 1 for financial stuff, 1 for utilities, bills, insurance, one for anything else.

Yes, in total, I have at least 6 email account aliases, but it helps to mitigate companies building data profiles on me, and also helps to know who sold what data if spam picks up.

Edit: OHHH Don't lemme forget, I have an old Classic Outlook setup from an old computer. Before I quit using these old email accounts, I configured as IMAP in Outlook and them exported to a .pst file. Now all my old email is in an archive file if I ever need to refer back to it.

But you aren't boycotting Motorola Solutions.
You're boycotting Motorola Mobility.

They're two seperate and unrelated companies.

As i said earlier nothing i would say will matter to you if you think boycotting a UN blacklisted corporate is debatable

I heard keepass was going hard on the AI. Is that true? I can't find much about it tbh.

If so, that'd make me nervous for a pw manager. If not, then it seems like a legit option.

Two legal entities doesn't mean they're washing their corporate name, both are still called Motorola. It's completely normal to have subsidiaries for countries you have employees or do a lot of business in, it greatly simplifies accounting. It's even normal to have subsidiaries for your different business activities. I suspect Motorola is actually quite proud of their work in Israel, it's an American company after all.

Buying a phone from Motorola Mobility, a completely unrelated company owned by the Chinese spyware company Lenovo, gives money to neither of those companies.

Instead, you'd want to avoid using telecoms that use Motorola tech. In North America that includes Verizon, AT&T, Bell, Rogers and Telus, possibly others. Europe has too many to even find.

Yes I understand all of that. I also understand that Motorola is a large conglomerate with several separate corporate divisions that are largely unrelated, so the buisness of one division has no effect on another.

But if you feel comfortable with mearly performic symbols of ineffective action, nothing I can say will matter to you.

What I want to know is whether all anti-privacy money is subsidizing other brands' phones.

Is this the real price of a good phone hardware if the end user's data isn't the product being sold?

Thanks :)

I don't think I've seen anyone say to avoid tuta before, can I ask why you include them in that section?

if you feel comfortable giving your hard earned money to a company that is blacklisted by the United Nations for participation of a genocide of kids,— yes israel is literally killing children and Motorola is actively participating in that.

Then nothing i say as an answer to your question will matter.

Note: you can see the UN listed two motorolla entities, one is an israel subsidiary that was created to wash the corporate name, but then further investigation clearly established that the mother corporation is still supplying IDF with technology to continue performing terrorist state activity.

Holy shirt sauce that's more than twice a pixel

Here you go

Scroll down to those two sections

no one is forcing you to care.

it just when you scream that you don’t care about children being bombed to pieces in schools and hospitals, this shows who you really are on a human level.

I was hoping for something cheaper, but with the price of everything these days I can't say I'm surprised. I'll probably start saving up while I wait for more news.

I don't even know that we can take it for granted that the phone will work with all carriers in the US. We've got some basic specs and that's literally it so far.

Average .zip / zio user

You can believe in whatever you want

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence

Why not retain it? It won't cost anything, and you might find a use for it eventually (I use my GMail account for automated testing of my email server).

And if you don't trust Google to safeguard your data, delete just the data.

There is probably a way migrate or at least export your contacts and email history so that you save any important conversations or contacts for future reference.

In my experience, most places have been understanding and updated my contact when I said I was registered with an old email address that I no longer have access to. If it’s a government service they’ll have other information of yours that you can verify yourself with. Make a note of deleted account names in case they are needed for verification.

If you’re really uncertain, you could set up forwarding to your new email address and retain the old one for some time without using it before you delete.

My Pixel 6 with Graphene OS was acting very weird like overheating out of nowhere, disconnecting vpn over and over. I stopped using it