Why I bought a Google Pixel in my struggle against surveillance capitalism

I success relock on: 10 ii, 10 iii, 10 iv, 10 v, 1 vi, pro 2

I agree that the Advanced Privacy applet is very cool. As I said, it was fun to set a fake location when it was not needed to actually work (like in the Maps app).

Shame Sony wouldn’t allow the XA2 - it is such a lovely phone. I got it 7 years ago because I was looking to compare LOS, eOS and Sailfish. Sailfish was not available due to geographical licensing restrictions, so I went with LOS and then eOS. Now I have a Pixel running GOS as my daily.

There was a problem with the eOS cloud a couple of years ago which meant that a lot of that data was lost. Months went by with people increasingly annoyed at not being able to access their stuff. Luckily I had transitioned away from it by then so was not affected. But I had moved away because the cloud aspect was not E2EE then (it may be by now - I know that was the plan).

Sometimes the problem it is usb cable, it need a serial-usb-cable approved.
if you have a newer-and-short usb cable you may retry it.

Fancy device, still supported by sailfish-os

LOS and eOS it using proprietary linux driver like android/linux, however sailfish is using libre linux driver. So performance may vary between: meh or rufh

Sailfish is global by easter-egg