 Hi, okay, so anyway today we're gonna just talk about Opinions versus backs, I guess So let's just talk about this. This is a conversation. I've had many time mostly with people who don't know much about computers Which is a choice? I think it's silly to not educate yourself on something that you use daily It's kind of like I have a car. I'm not a mechanic But I try to understand how an injury works and how things are done. I may not change my own tires I have done it before Well, I've rotated my tires. I haven't changed my tires new tires on there I mean, you know, but at least I learn I try to learn at least how things work even if I'm going to still pay someone else to do it and I feel like Computers are kind of the same way. It's like we use them so much But people just choose to to not understand it's like I people know why you put oil on a car But people just when it comes to softwares like I don't even want to know sometimes So anyway, this conversation this argument I've had with people is they compare software to art type things and some ways It does make sense But the thing is art is a is an opinion I mean literally I can sit here and go And you can take that little sound clip and loop it over again and say it's your favorite song and you would be Right, you can say it's a great song and you would be right because it's a matter of opinion That sounds good to you. You think that's good. You know, someone else can argue with you, but you can't argue opinions I don't think that sounds good. I do think that sounds good. Those are opinions You can't really argue them or you're just gonna go in circles thing is software has functionality and functionality can be compared So if one program does something better than another or in some cases Maybe this one has some functionality like you have a music player One plays only mp3's and yellow pay mp3's and odd audio files Well, this one plays more formats. So directly, it's a better software But you can also look at different aspects of stuff. For example, let's say, you know I like using the shell for as much as I can There are certain things that using a shell isn't good for but with the shell I can argue, you know It's lighter weight, you know, it runs faster I can do things I can do most things faster on a keyboard in the shell Than I could with a mouse and a GUI but on my cell phone. That may not be the case I do have a full shell, you know on a keyboard, but slower to type stuff So in on my phone in many cases icons are a better route to go And I can make icons that actually run my shell scripts that automates stuff So I don't have to type out the commands or yeah, even sometimes still use the shell I just have short aliases two to three characters But in most cases on a small little device where you don't have a physical keyboard Where you're doing on-screen touch stuff, GUI interface is usually a better interface So I can still argue that a shell is lighter weight and maybe runs faster But and is more usable on a desktop with a keyboard But in other cases at GUI interface even though it might take need a little more overhead and be able more bloated The usage of it on a small screen like better So there are different ways to argue that out, but at least you can argue that out and you can come to a clear winner You know depending on what aspects you're looking at and again To me it might be more important to have lightweight stuff where you might want more functionality And it just all depends on that is an opinion, but when you compare them, yes This one runs faster. This one Has some other functionality that may be important for what you're doing so art and Software there's some overlap, but for the most part there is a Distinguished winner when you're looking at a particular subject for those softwares certain category for those softwares Softwares for that software for those programs Anyway, let's move on to a similar subject because it's kind of kind of combines in most the conversations when it comes to phone and privacy so You know first of all, you know, there there are lots of different operating since they're at least a handful operating systems out there four different phones different phone formats and you know, I Can argue, you know, let's just look at Android versus iOS functionality wise Android wins hands down iOS cannot do a fraction of the things that the standard Android system can do And and this is just a very basic example I've used before Go on to an iOS device Go to a website that has a link for an mp3 or an mp4 some sort of media file and try to download it It might it might let you stream that file, but it will not let you download it at least last I checked Which was pretty recent You know to get those on you got to go through Apple software and sometimes even have to hook up a wire to a computer transfer it over we're not an Android device You just you know click download as and save as you know And as I said before you can go back in time 20 30 years, you know Windows 95 or even earlier and You get a web browser and you can click on a link and download any file. There's no restrictions. So functionality wise Android beats out of iOS But that's that's that's only part of the issue so Let's go to another part of this conversation. We're talking about privacy a lot of people go Oh, but Android Android is is Google and Google tracks you and they look at all you do Apple does the same thing Google might do it a little better, but Apple's doing the same thing But here's the big difference if you have an Apple device you have an iPhone You're pretty much stuck with what you've got you've got the iOS There have been previous older versions of the hardware where you might be able to get some version of links We're on there with some of the hardware working But pretty much you're stuck with iOS and even rooting that is difficult in many cases where Android on the other hand people equate it Android Google which is not not really true Google makes a version of Android that a lot, you know hardware manufacturers use but Android is a free and open source program released under the mainly the GPL and the Apache license and It's a community thing you can take the source code and you can compile your own and There are people out there their projects out there like linear Joe S back in the day. We had signage and mod I think linear Joe S is probably the biggest one now and in most cases You can download that and saw on your device without Google services now Google is some of the source code they made me again there But it doesn't necessarily link to their services and as far as source code goes You can look at the source code and see what it's doing you can very easily on many devices Install Android without the Google services. In fact most time when you do go with an alternate Android install them what comes from the manufacturer. It's not going to have the Android services on there by default and you have to side load them So you can definitely take most phones install Android without Google services and I say most because some manufacturers lock down their devices, but many don't Motorola is very good about allowing you to unlock the bootloader and unlocking rooting and then unlocking from a cell phone You carry unlocking the bootloader unlocking from a cell phone carrier and rooting are all different things But once you unlock the bootloader you can then up you know change the the operating system that's on there to your liking pretty much and Like I said some companies like Motorola or even the devices you get from Google Like if you have a Nexus or a pixel device They allow you to unlock it and you can just wipe out all the all the Default stuff or at least back it up in case you want to put it back on there and load a version of Android that doesn't use the Google services now That's a good thing Doesn't you know cell phones in general Or just by their nature There's going to be some tracking that is obvious Because no matter whether you you get an old flip phone You're still connecting to a cell phone tower somewhere and they know that that device connected the tower So they know you're within a couple of miles of that tower and it's pinging other towers, too So they can they can somewhat try and like and find it within range where you are now you can say well I can buy a phone with cash, you know, this is how you know how deep you want to get with this It's like okay, so you can get yourself an old flip phone That doesn't have any software on it other than you know, then then then embedded firmware You can get that but and you bought it cash. So now it's not linked to you But do they have cameras in the store? I mean if you really want to get paranoid about it and and I'm not saying paranoid is a bad thing that might be a good thing That you're being paranoid They're gonna see your face all these stores target Walmart. They all have cameras, you know, it wasn't that long ago that the Amazon started opening up their You know grocery stores and people are like, oh no envision a privacy. They have cameras everywhere and they're tracking your phone and blah blah blah You know what? Every store has cameras. They may have more cameras But every store has cameras and just because you're going to 7-eleven and they're not doing facial recognition stuff now Doesn't mean they're not saving the security video and later on they can take those years and years worth of security footage and Run it through facial recognition and now even though before they weren't tracking you now I know you know every time you've gone to a 7-eleven in the last 10 years, you know You're being looked at you're being watched and you know, if you have a phone that has Wi-Fi And that Wi-Fi is on in some cases even if it's off It's for for like a few dollars really like like under $10 easily I can make a device that logs Every Wi-Fi device that comes into range So I can stick one of these devices and log every MAC address Which is like a serial number for your Wi-Fi device that comes into range So even if you cover up your face, if you have a phone that has Wi-Fi Or even a tablet that has Wi-Fi I can log when you come near my store and I'll know you know How often you come makes me think of Cars so my I'm pointing over there because my cars are over there your car has four tires on it and a lot of new cars My last three cars all had Pressure gauges on them so let you know if a tire gets low a little light comes out of my dash You know how those work there. There's a guy who did a project on this you can find the source code on github I wish I can remember his name It's been a couple of years since I watched it but with and a little dongle a little $10 SDR radio dongle You can said to a friend could see and Log the wireless signals from someone's tires So you have four tires and those little devices they they turn on when the tires start spinning They have a little gyro or some sort of thing that turns them out so they're not all the time That's why the batteries don't die and on average each tire once per minute will send out a signal wirelessly That you can pick up and you can say once per minute, but in theory there are four tires so I mean if You assume that they're all spread out In their signaling which they're probably not but you could assume that once every 15 seconds I'm gonna signal from your car and each one has sends out its own You know a little serial number or some sort of MAC address some sort of identifier so if I know The the four numbers on your four tires. I can set up a sensor somewhere and know When you come by I can put it on intersection. Oh, so so and so Tom over there I know he drives by that intersection every day at three o'clock because I have the logs anytime you have a wireless device on you You have the possibility of being tracked and your phone has Bluetooth It has Wi-Fi and it has a cell signal. Maybe even more, you know So think about that actually I think there was even a thing so your camera your phone has a little IR sensor out So that when you answer the phone, it's a little range detector. It detects. Well, I think it's IR pretty sure It's IR they used to be IR on the phones and so we detect like whether that lights bouncing back or not and turn off the screen I'm pretty sure I saw a project once where someone with a camera was able to log that and I guess each phone might have a Different flicker rates so you can with some sort of accuracy Determine whose phone is what based on the little flicker coming from that IR if you have a camera point out Then when they're talking on their phone, so There is no perfect scenario You can get a phone that's completely free and open source and you read every line of code You understand every line of code all the drivers are free But just the nature of it you have a cell phone It's sending out wireless signals and if there's radio signals coming out of you it can be tracked now I'm not trying to be all paranoid about I'm just saying there is no perfect solution but if you have a choice between something that gives you mostly freedom and Something you know you can say well mostly freedom is not freedom. Yeah. Well true freedom in the aspect We're talking about is impossible in the current world right now. Maybe someday things will change probably not as I said there's there's wireless signals flying out from you all the time, but If you have something like an Apple phone Not even talking about functionality again, I can say pretty much anything the software on iOS does Andra can do that and more I've never seen a situation where it can't and One of the arguments for iOS or Apple devices is oh, they all work great together. Well, they work great with other Apple products But most computer good programmers write stuff that's compatible with everything, you know as much as possible For for example, it's like lots of times if people Here's here's an example FaceTime FaceTime is great, but you need an Apple device There are many many other video chat programs out there both closed and open that doesn't matter what operating system you're on How is that easier? Oh because it works with it. It's like no, it's like here's a link there there There are video chat programs where I send you a link and that's it. You don't even have to stall anything It doesn't write in the browser How much easier can you get as long as you have a browser built in the last five years? We can video chat without you having to install anything again. That's functionality. That's not Necessarily privacy. Obviously if you're linking through a server to video chat, who knows what's going on? So functionality and ease of use Apple products they lose. I mean that's you can argue all you want, but those are provable facts you know and there's gonna be a lot of comments arguing otherwise and it's just not true and Thing is you can argue all you want give examples and most times your examples are gonna fail when actually put up to the test And I'm not you know Spound off that how great Android is in general. I think Android sucks. Let me say that again I think Android sucks, but it's a hundred times better than iOS. Why does it suck? Well, yeah, as far as an interface for a small device It's actually pretty good the interface, you know, but as far as the underlining OS It's it's it's using a list channel, which is great But the way they have their file system setup is just funky and weird and and the way their apps work is is just disgustingly everywhere and And as far as their security and I say security because I think most security is fake security make you feel well the whole You know permissions for app. I think is just ridiculous. I am a user I should have permissions as this user and if I have permissions to do that My app should have permission to my program should have permission to do that And if I want something more advanced, I should have to type in some sort of security key not just be like Yes, okay forever from now on this program can use my my camera You know, it's like either I can use the camera or I can't and if I don't want Programs using the camera without my knowledge. I should have some sort of password to put in anyway. I Think Android is horrible, but a hundred times thousand times better than iOS just because there are no restrictions Once you have rooted an Android device and Android by default is rooted It's going to give you that root possibility if you don't have root It's because your vendor locked your device down It's not because Android is necessarily locked down and again if they allow you to unlock your bootloader. You've got root Basically, it's it's it's one one leads to the other Where iOS Apple does everything they can anytime. There's a new way to root the device They stop it and they'll call it security again that fake security. We're doing it for you. It's security No, you're doing it for you to stop me from doing things You don't want me to do because you want to control over me and that's what it comes down to it's all about control You're trying to control me You don't want me downloading MP3s because you want me buying them from you Don't you don't want me downloading movies because you want me buying them from you And even if you're giving them to me free you want me using your services So you can see what I'm doing and decide what I'm gonna watch what I'm gonna listen to and that's what it's all about It's about control. Don't let people don't let companies. You don't know control you. You know what don't let Google control you Don't let Apple control you. Don't let Amazon control you You should be in control of yourself. You should be in control of your device Nobody else should if you don't have root on your device every device has some sort of root or admin Level and if it's not you it's somebody else if it's not you then it's a company somewhere else and they're in control Of your device you're not in control of your device You should be in control of your device if you don't have root and you can't get root Well, then someone else is controlling your device, which is for most people a big portion of their life again your phone Logs everything it knows more about you than you do You know as it's said, you know, it's like they know not just what story you go to but how long you spent On what part of an aisle so they know what you've been looking at It's like I know I went to the store the other day Do I remember exactly what time do I remember how long I was there? Do I remember how long I was a certain aisle and I'm sounding like I think is what I'm saying right now Brian Lunduk said but basically it knows more about you than you do based on stuff like that and You're gonna give that control to somebody else Get a device that you have root access on Whether it be an Android device that you've unlocked and got root access on and you want even if you don't unlock it and Don't get yourself root access just having a device that you know that you can that's another thing It's it's like okay. Maybe I don't you know, I'm not an advanced user I don't have any need to root my device for whatever reason and I also get Security on phones is ridiculous on my desktop. I want to do something as root or administrator I've got to type in a password in most cases unless I disable that which is as ridiculous But on an Android device once you install root it's a matter of I want to run route, okay? Okay, no password required and that's one of those they Try to make it more secure, but it's less secure if you're not typing a password to get root access well then It's not really secure Anybody can click that it's kind of like on a Windows machine when Windows started doing this program is trying to run Is that okay? Yes or no or okay or cancel or whatever their options are it's like a second What well first of all yeah that programs trying to run because I tried running it of course I want to run That's why I tried running it, you know and if I didn't start it. How is it okay or a cancel button? Secure, that's not security. That's not security Your phone is not secure in that case So so maybe you don't want to have it rooted all the time But just knowing that you can when you buy a device see can I root this can I change the operating system on it? You know you don't have to but just knowing that you can in fact I was just talking to a friend recently he has an old iPad and it's running real slow And he's thinking about getting Android device and I said well I haven't been shopping one so I can't really recommend one But I said go to lineage OS or one of these you know community projects for Android and look at their list of Devices that if the device is on that list that means you can unlock it and you can change the software because this concern was Hey years from now well, I still get updates and most manufacturers two to three years after devices release They stop updates, but if you can unlock it and it's listed on one of these community projects That means you'll probably well you definitely can but depending on You can definitely always upgrade it yourself, but hopefully there will be a community around that Device where if you can't unlock it well then it will eventually die out because you won't be able to get updates for anymore For example, I have a Samsung tablet which I was able to unlock and stuff But I had to jump through all these groups because Samsung does not like you unlocking their devices And that's why I won't buy a Samsung device anymore I like that tablet as far as the hardware goes, but the jumping through hoops to unlock it because I didn't look before I bought it But now I always look whenever I'm buying a device I look is it on this list of devices for one of these community projects like lineage OS if it's on there good I don't even have to root it or unlock it because I know that I can Although if you don't unlock it now They might somehow pull that later on but usually if it's one of those devices It's because the company you'll void your warranty and that seems to concern some people Have you ever actually really used a warranty on a phone, you know after? 30 days or 60 days. I don't expect a warranty to do anything for me if it's within 60 30 to 60 days I'm just gonna bring it back and exchange it the store. I bought it from So anyway, I've been rambling for over 20 minutes now, and I'm sure I'm gonna get a lot of hateful comments right below Go ahead. Go ahead. Tell me how great iOS is Or tell me how you agree with me. I don't care either way Again, it's not a matter of opinion. It's matter of fact and when it comes to software Either can do it or can't do it. Let me give another example though. So sometimes You can argue that a piece of software is better, but the difference is Minimal so it doesn't really matter so for example if you ever whack work back if you ever worked with Apple desktop or laptop computers, you know and Ubuntu at least at one point was like this. I don't know if it still is where they have One toolbar at the top of the screen for all programs So when you click on a program, it's got the file the edit the whatever other options are up there For that program when you click on each program it goes to that part and I hate that and I can prove that that's less efficient than having each a bar on each one Say I have two windows I'm working in this one now. I want to go up to file open on this one I've got a click on this window and then go up To the bar up here click file where if it was in that program as go over and click file open It's one less step and a lot less Mouse movement said that once to a guy at an Apple store that worked there and his response was I Use shortcut keys so it doesn't bother me and I'm around the same page So it's not a big deal because I use shortcut keys and even if I was using the mouse most people It does make a difference, but they don't really care I really don't see the advantage of just one bar It just seems like a bad idea to me But if you like that the functionality difference is minimal so it's Partially opinion partially Fact but the fact is to go to have to go click click Click instead of just click click That's one extra click in one bigger movement. It's not as as functional or efficient I should say anyway. I do. Thank you for watching again Below and I hope you have a great day