> of people who actually appreciate the threat model enough to keep spending extra effort

The "product" is already successful. Some spent effort, others spent money.

Those who did the latter include defense contractor or other government backgrounds, ""conservative"" (aka normal people) moms who were censored on Facebook and Twitter as early as 2019 and had enough pattern recognition to know the unlawful censorship reached all the way up into the federal government, journalists, and some are in the category of politician.

Think of what Tucker Carlson shared with the public "the NSA got into my Signal account, which I didn't know they could do". I don't expect our solution to stand up to NSA, but unlike a retail device the starting point of the digital playing field on my camp's solution doesn't let digital intrusion be a cakewalk for "glowies" like retail devices do. Glowies have to work significantly harder to compromise what we have.

Some of the "Instagram famous" gen Z stereotypical "hot girls" who are computer illiterate and generally aloof (vapid on the surface) were immediately willing to tolerate the overhead of "touchscreen cabled to a backpack" when they were told "when you do a call with mom or dad, that call does actually stay protected". Trashy aka "low socioeconomic status" people don't give a shit about family privacy/autonomy, but these people do give a shit about it.

All aforementioned categories of users have already experienced suffering abuse, or anticipate being abused, or they simply have enough dignity in their life that they're not going to just give it away like typical retards do ; they are not going to "eventually move on" from "this computer I carry on my person every day is not designed for me to get fucked over" and then downgrade to a retail device that is by design (in one way or another) positioned to fuck them over. Sans a "burner" device for some specific narrow purpose (Instagram presence) that has had its internal mic gutted and has hardware shutters on its cameras.

The technical concept is what I am allowed to post about so that's what I did. As I already wrote earlier (and also then later cited I had written), something cohesive will be posted later this year, and if the person I expect to do it doesn't then I'll do it myself. Or, one of the other existing players in the space will, or someone else entirely (and I'd be perfectly happy with that).

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> You're not sitting on some super special idea here

I appreciate you acknowledging this point, a point that I had emphasized, and I feel I had done so rather clearly, several times above. Many Qubes users have been doing this since 2018.

The essential thing my camp did that was "special" was package it professionally in a way that "normie" users can succeed with it out-of-the-box.

Like with any specific operating system and hardware combination there are implementation specific bugs here and there, but nothing major.

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> how far I could get without a proper voice plan.

Some use "2FA mule", like this https://kozubik.com/items/2famule/ ; though we advise to physically remove the microphone of the 2FA mule and presume any WiFi/Bluetooth traffic from it is hostile.

Those who need PSTN (legacy phone network) voice or 911 can use another device for that.

No one using our mini-backpack is missing out on any functionality they actually need.

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> eg what specific dev boards straightforwardly run Graphene? I don't see any listed on the website

I do appreciate you bothering to look. I actually do. There are boards that can run with zero blobs, they are intended for production use as sold, so long as they can run a Linux kernel and have a GPU that Android can use, they can run GrapheneOS.

Our solution is not supported nor known about by the GrapheneOS project, we have our own branch and cicd and all that.

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> Which is probably how I ended up skipping over some actual details.

Yeah, the performance (or lack thereof) of your reading comprehension has been rather noticeable.

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> the polar opposite of the trash elitist attitude you're pushing.

Okay but no matter what happens, I will always get more money and more pussy than you.