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Freedom-respecting Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
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Joining the Wave: Murena & /e/OS 2026 Roadmap
This first half of the year has been intense, maybe one of the most intense periods I’ve lived since the beginning of the project. Many new opportunities are rising for Murena that will potentially turn our “privacy niche project” into something very big… We’re close to 100,000 Murena and /e/OS regular users.
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Purism ☛ Google’s Lock Down Policy
For years, Android marketed itself as the antidote to Apple’s walled garden. Open. Flexible and developer friendly. That promise is now eroding—fast.
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Purism ☛ Smartphone Study
The recent National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) study on effectiveness of school phone bans has reignited debate over whether restricting smartphones in schools actually helps students. Its headline result—that strict bans show “close to zero” immediate impact on test scores—has been interpreted by some as evidence that regulation doesn’t work.
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New York Times ☛ Their Phones Were Stolen in London. Then the Threats Started.
All of the messages wanted her to do one thing: unlink her son’s Apple ID from his stolen phone.
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Android Police ☛ If you didn't have a cellphone in the early 2000s, you'll never know these pains
As much as I look back and feel that sweet nostalgia for a simpler phone, I definitely do not miss the shortcomings.
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Android Police ☛ Why I'm using a 5-year-old phone to run my entire home network
I'd been meaning to recycle an old Google Pixel for about two years. The screen was cracked and not worth enough to sell, so it just sat on a top shelf.
Then I fell down a rabbit hole reading about people using spare phones as smart home helpers, and as an amateur tech hacker, I got ideas for a project.
That Pixel now feeds sensor data into my smart home, doubles as a security camera, and handles a couple of network tasks. The best part? None of it needed new hardware.