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[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Or any pixel and putting grapheneos on it.

I think the advantage is that you get to pay $20/mo for some software after the 1st year.

Wtf.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Right. Like, why would anyone pay a subscription for that?

Edit: I think I get it now:

Those who buy the MC02 get a year for free, after which they’ll pay around $20/€15/£13 each month (discounted if paid annually) to access a handful of services, including email, a VPN (dubbed “Digital Nomad”), online synchronization for calendar and contacts, secure storage on Punkt’s own Swiss servers and the express promise that there will be no ads or third-party crawlers.

So you can access cloud services without being tied to Google, I suppose. Still, the value proposition is questionable.

[–] PoorPocketsMcNewHold@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

And even that advantage can be minimized by getting any bundle of privacy products, like Proton which offer all of those (Mail, VPN, Drive, Calendar) or even with your self-hosted VPS (Some VPS seller even allow you to prepare it with Nextcloud and a VPN relay for near no extra paiement).

I see the "pay once to one company", but you also need to trust them entirely, for EVERYTHING.

Also, there's already plenty of companies doing such thing (regardless of how practical/private/secure they are)

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

/e/OS is extremely insecure.

Iodé is just LineageOS which is also not better

Purism (librem) is a scam company not delivering any phones to paying customers, while pretending to do well.

GrapheneOS is the only one that makes sense, and they use it as Base, so if you for some reason dont want GrapheneOS this may be the next best thing