@roamer_1
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@thackney Yeah - I was already over here reading the article. Here's the thing...
This would be a fun little hack. Maybe I will sacrifice my old J7Skypro and mess around a bit.
The problem I am going to have with it is the portability of the phone. If I am messing with a pooter and throw something together that is promiscuous, I soon find that out - The box is basically sand-boxed behind the router so long as I a paying attention to outgoing packets (which I am).
But that phone is everywhere... It is literally in the wild. That, just in principle, with likely broken updating and unlikely app updating is enough to make me wary. And in the midst of that, services that make the phone useful will also likely be a kludge or may be absent altogether....
For instance, Navigation. It is one of the real, and super critical things that phone does. what nav is available and updated enough to be valid outside of google maps? And to use Google Maps, well now Google is on the phone, ain't it? It is useless without knowing where you are, so poof! Tracking. Too bad, there it is. Replacing that and retaining privacy is likely not going to happen. So either Nav+Google tracking, or no nav at all, rendering something like 30% of the real utility moot.
And without nav and a couple other bits, you may as well just go get a flip phone and haul a lightweight notebook around
See where I am going here?
