My wife and I use Signal with each other. She also uses Graphene on her Pixel. Both were her choice. And now she wants to go further down the FOSS rabbit hole. I warned her it was deep. She’s totally onboard.
She was getting fed up with the direction all the tech companies were going and started researching how to take ownership of her shit. I only found out because she asked me about Graphene OS, which caught me totally off-guard because she was an apple person for so long. We talked about it at length, then she decided to ditch her iPhone for a used P9PXL, and asked me to install Graphene OS as soon as it arrived.
She is incredibly sharp and is more than happy to struggle with figuring out a whole new world of privacy and real ownership than deal with forced “upgrades” that do nothing except harvest even more data.
Nice! Yeah my wide gets irritated if I even mention hosting something. She’s still under the impression open source means poorly thrown together… I’ve self hosted things for so long, and I had a new pack of hard drives fail (4 out of 8) after moving about 50TB of data, so she sees how bad it can be to host; however, 90%of her stuff on her phone isn’t backed up bc she won’t let me install anything to help and she has no cloud storage.
She works for a big (in its industry) software company and of course is always fed the “little guys” aren’t as good, etc. I’m chipping away slowly but surely. 🤞
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My wife and I use Signal with each other. She also uses Graphene on her Pixel. Both were her choice. And now she wants to go further down the FOSS rabbit hole. I warned her it was deep. She’s totally onboard.
How did you get her on board? Can your wife talk to my wife? Over signal 😅
She was getting fed up with the direction all the tech companies were going and started researching how to take ownership of her shit. I only found out because she asked me about Graphene OS, which caught me totally off-guard because she was an apple person for so long. We talked about it at length, then she decided to ditch her iPhone for a used P9PXL, and asked me to install Graphene OS as soon as it arrived.
She is incredibly sharp and is more than happy to struggle with figuring out a whole new world of privacy and real ownership than deal with forced “upgrades” that do nothing except harvest even more data.
Nice! Yeah my wide gets irritated if I even mention hosting something. She’s still under the impression open source means poorly thrown together… I’ve self hosted things for so long, and I had a new pack of hard drives fail (4 out of 8) after moving about 50TB of data, so she sees how bad it can be to host; however, 90%of her stuff on her phone isn’t backed up bc she won’t let me install anything to help and she has no cloud storage.
She works for a big (in its industry) software company and of course is always fed the “little guys” aren’t as good, etc. I’m chipping away slowly but surely. 🤞
I don’t blame her. It’s fun. My family is not on board with it unfortunately but I hope them seeing me do it might convince them someday
I think I’m good with Delta Chat for now 😅