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You can tell the day I installed lineage os(with microg) on my dad's phone. (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 145 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

I'm too scared to start calculating it myself, but I sometimes wonder how much electricity, drive space, and bandwidth we'd save if we cut all this nonsense analytics and forced ads

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    • [–] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    I wonder how much electricity and bandwith is used by all that spyware...

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Since switching my FP6 to /e/OS i get at least double the battery life (not heavily using it, just messaging, listening to podcasts, outertune and some browsing). Especially when the screen is off, there is almost no battery usage.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Crazy...also, you made me remember how i had this cheap ass phone who battery life was like 2 days with screen off, i removed the google stuff and it became a full week (and i was hosting a discord bot on that guy btw)

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    • [–] 28 points 11 months ago

    my mom would call the fire department if I tried to change the default wallpaper of her 2010 iphone

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    [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    Sure it's not that he no longer is able to use his phone? (Just kidding)

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    [–] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Wow! That's much more that I would have thought. Can't wait to liberate my dad's phone over the holidays, he's on board with me getting GrapheneOS on it. Will have to see what I can do to their home network as well though since mom's stuck on a carrier-locked phone.

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    • [–] 13 points 11 months ago

    I wonder how much is just due to the default phone launcher and keyboard.

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    [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Part of that is probably all his apps got nuked?

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    [–] 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    My pihole reports similar after blocking millions of sites

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The problem with that is it is going to retry again and again. I wish there was a way to make them think they connected so there would be less tries.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Depends on both what the adblocker responds and how a given program handles failures.

    Pi-Hole and similar adblockers can pretend that the domain is on the device itself (A 127.0.0.1), is an invalid IP (A 0.0.0.0) or that the domain doesn't exist at all (NXDOMAIN). Each one has its own implications, with the latter (usually the default afaik) being the most likely to have software generate a hard error and give up.

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    • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    He just used his phone less in general?

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