PinePhone Covid Apps

[KC9UDX]

Everything has unintended consequences.

The global tyranny overload has large numbers of people coming to our once "fringe" camp of libertarianism. This is causing people with all kinds of anti-libertarian ideas to call themselves Libertarians. (I'm not going to pretend that this wasn't a problem before, mind you. But it has gotten much, much worse.)

The same thing will happen with "smartphones" that don't have Apple and Google spying capability. Eventually the majority of people with such phones will end up wanting the spy features, polluting our camp.

I want to comply with the rules here and not discuss politics. But at some point, preservation of life as we know it necessitates this. Unfortunately I think we've reached that point.

I do appreciate anyone wanting to believe the TV about the state of the world right now. More power to you. But many prominent libertarians, the kind of people who set the stage for our basic freedoms, gave stem warnings about trusting individual safety and security to government. And if you think government is in some way separate from Apple, Google, or any of the other "private sector" spy agencies, I can only beg you to consider otherwise. Unfortunately any proof I can offer is likely to be seen as "silly conspiracy theory" to anyone not already aware of this. Apple, and especially Google (as well as the vast majority of other media companies), have been very, very good about concealing their marriage to (tyrannical) government.

[kqlnut]

One very necessary use for a phone is Covid Location apps and going into the future Covid Passports.
Is the Pinephone and Pinephone Pro able to use these very necessary apps  ?
or will we have to carry around an android phone for this purpose ?

There is a tracing app for SailfishOS, although it might not work properly on the PinePhone. For Covid passports it should be enough to have the certificate handy in any form which might as well be a PDF file with the QR code and all the info. No app needed in that case. But there is also Vakzination, a KDE app which offers that functionality.

Nobody needs covaids related apps, if the authorities say "papers please" like how the gestapo did to the Jews 80 years ago, just ignore them.

Please don't start this victimization bullshit (sorry for my choice of words, I don't mean to attack you personally, but sentences like that are left uncommented far too often). Trivializing the horrors of the Nazi regime with absurd comparisons to the current and very different situation is paradoxically a very real part of spreading radical and harmful ideas. Here and here are some articles about this.

[evilbunny]

This thread has gone far to political.