juspie

I think you can only simplify things so much without making the entire thing pointless. As others have already said, install GrapheneOS yourself — it’s almost as easy as making an online purchase. And remember the phone is inherently a tracking device no matter what — especially if the cellular/radio stack is active.

I don’t think there’s any more shortcuts that can be taken if security and protection from surveillance are actually important.

Agreed!

My struggle is to not get bitter/angry at these situations. I have to keep reminding myself that there are about a billion other ways in which I am ignorant of things that are equally important. And that just a few years ago, I too, was completely on the big tech bandwagon (but only reluctantly so).

Your pain is so very relatable, pal 😢

Very insightful! Thank you for this comment @msage@programming.dev

I support the proposal to defederate.

Thank you admins for your efforts, and also for soliciting this feedback before taking the proposed action!

https://www.mumble.info/downloads/

Not really Canadian, but it may or may not have some Canadian contributors on the team.

Also https://mumla-app.gitlab.io/

Both are free (gratis) and open-source, so I think it should be okay for me to comment about them here.