Hijacking as I’ve done on other posts. In my country all 3 major tellcos needed to verify phones can call emergency on VoLTE.

FP5 does this. For whatever reason the telcos cant “conform” that (its not sold here but important and DOES work) so the device is blocked at a network level.

Not blocked just for calls but even data.

Phone is now a brick. Double brick once the Android changes roll through.

Porn. Yes. Needs ID or VPN to access the sites these days.

Feels weird to access it via torrents.

Oh yeah. As another comment pointed out. Users can control this by using hidden notifications. Not a sigbal issue.

I thought this was adult (not audit).

Sooo … Anyone got a privacy friendly adult app?

What’s the recent news?

Keepass with syncthing seems to be fine for passwords.

I think email is a rabbitbhole so leave that for the pros.

Just checked LibreWolf a hardened Firefox as I thought they disable it. Turns out its just off default and “There aren’t significant downsides as Firefox Sync encrypts your data locally before transmitting it to the server.”

I thought there might be another reason to have it off (giving Mozilla your email?) but seems OK.

https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-firefox-sync-with-librewolf-is-it-safe-to-do-so

FP5 specifically. Fp3 and 6 seem to be OK. Have a look in the official forums.

Cant change Snapdragon’s IMEI, happy to if you have a guide!

Plus it’s illegal but meh.

Not shitting on the idea but I bought a FairPhone5 that includes to what this suggests. Each main component (so not chipset) can be unscrewed and replaced easily, chsrgrt port, camera, speaker, removable battery.

As of next month every major telco that owns infrastructure in the contrary will have blocked the IMEI (the first part identifies the phone and model) and will be unusable. Even unusable with a data only sim.

It will only work on WiFi.

Guess im just venting but id love to see how this concept could help in the situation.

“Synchi does not try to be real-time, automatic, or invisible.”

What would be the down side if I tried to automate the sync. Say every 5min on Linux to android.

Can I Earn Rewards: Yes! You can earn PRE tokens for your searches. These tokens can be used to stake nodes, advertise on the platform, or traded on exchanges. The more you use Presearch, the more you earn.

I do not need to earn rewards from my intent searching.

Also. Seems like it’s ads. Just “decentralized” ads. Kinda like what Brave and Honey were doing - stopping ads and inserting there own.

OP I suggest there’s a reason noone mentions this shambles of a search engine.

FP5 does support VoIP and VoLTE. It can call 000.

You mean an international sim? I don’t think so. The FP website tells users to check the phone is supported in the clintry they travel to.

And no. Aus gov did nothing BEOFRE this happend. We FP5 users found somewhere that supported us and hit it out. But seems were found.

Basically. But Optus is joining the party too.

Thread goes back to the Telstra cutoff. Optus to do the same soon. Looks like TPG might be the last stand.

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/3g-network-closure-australia/109696/160

I’ll be interested to know what happens with FP6. Of your notbwoth TPG or a reseller of there’s you should have got a message by now.

People have. Some samsungs were blocked in the first perge. There was minimal outcry. The normies just got new phones.

… Also someone did die coz they went able to call emergency services. Something to do with the phone not updated and had not been blocked properly (otherwise they would have known they couldn’t call emergency). So it seems that’s kicked off a new wave of checks.

Never used a VPN. Never got a letter. Hardly heard of anyone being actually sued over downloading one movie out of the millions that do it daily…probably more likely for die driving to work.

Torrent. Install Qbittorrent and just use any Prate bay clone site.

Or SlSk (soul seek) search and download directly from a user. They may expect to see that your sharing files. It’s OK to have nothing when your starting out.

Or Stremio installed on almost any TV or device and stream the content without downloading first. Kodi can do it too but it’s a bit of a setup and I’ve found Stremio to be easier.

The first two install without issie, the last needs a guide to get the good stuff DM me and I’ll send a recommended link.

I’ve done all three for free with no issues - beyond sometimes finding content. That said. The caviets.

The first two can get you a virus if you don’t know what your doing and clicking random things. For torrenting I hear private trackers are better but I’ve never used one.

And the last one does, unfortunately, work better with a paid service (premoumize or real debrid). Cheapest is during black friday and pay for two years. It’s the same as yearly Prime Subscription.

Search Telstra 3G shutdown. They were the first to block all in 2024 (and can confirm still blocked) Optus is now blocking on the 10th March. There’s one telco left in AU. Everyone else sells one of these three.

Much discussion in this FP5 thread. https://forum.fairphone.com/t/3g-network-closure-australia

Despite what people say the phone works and has all requirements for the network, VoLTE calling and emergency calling. The telcos tho don’t want to take a risk with “unknown” modems. So they disable network.

Wow. Two FP posts in a night. Paste of my comment.

Faiphone is being frog marched out of Australia. Each telco is shutting it down and blocking IMEIs. Sucks for the people that imported them.

Cant even use it as data only. So unless you use it as puerly on WiFi it’s going to landfill. 😔.