Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Pointless, any gsm or cdma phone made in the past 15 years can be tracked off tower data to 50ft. Unless you never txt or call you are trackable
And anything older is 2g or 3g brick.
Buy used nice android from someone locally cssh for $100, like a lg v40 or pixel 6a
Use dummy gmail account
Enjoy modern convenience no privacy issue
That paranoid, tape over selfie notch/lens, disable nfc, use prepaid service like mint or visible paid with prepaid debit cards and an alias
Current era being able to record encounters is crucial..no idea why any anon would risk a social or legal situation unable to record their own footage
Do the old Motorola flip phones qualify - from 15 Yrs ago?
I use a Nokia 100.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_100
Have done for years.
This is not privacy oriented with respect to voice and SMS but it has no internet or GPS.
There are a few bugs and disadvantages, but I put up with them.
Sometimes if you drop the phone it will not receive calls or texts until you restart it. It fails silently so you don't know there is a problem until you restart the phone and the voicemails and texts start to come in.
It only holds a few hundred texts before it gets full and you have to start deleting them. When it gets full it silently rejects new texts until you deal with the inbox. This can be a real nuisance because you miss messages. When it gets nearly full sometimes it will give you the wrong text. Person a texts you and it gives you an out of date previous text by the same person and you have to delete a few texts and ask them to re-send.
They do wear out over a couple of years, the screen connectors fail and the SIM card socket goes slack with everyday knocks.
When you get them second hand, they can be hard to unlock from the old network. Only get the right network or an unlocked handset.
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I don't know about privacy oriented, but we have Gabb Wireless phones for our teens. They can call and text. That's it. Looks like a smart phone.