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> buying nicer feature phones

That's a thing? I grudgingly switched to a persistent surveillance device two years ago when the buttons fell off of my last feature phone and the new feature phones were enough worse that they were basically unusable.

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isn't a feature phone a smartphone that doesn't get updates + a fixed set of bloatware?

I would love a feature phone with Facebook Messenger, rudimentary Google Maps, and no other features.

Honestly, if there's one that works I'd buy it tonight.

If your feature phone has FB messenger then it (probably) isn't more private than a regular smart phone.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/25/nokia-8110-reloaded-hand...

Might be something to watch. feature phones are making a bit of a comeback.

And for Sailfish as well:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/26/sailfish-v3-sets-its-sight...

I keep looking for a smartphone in a feature phone's body.

I don't care about a big screen or zippy processor. But there's all those handy little apps on Android that I'd have no replacement for.

There is nothing stopping you from using only these three options now. Your problems are in your head.

You're basically telling an alcoholic to just have a little alcohol.

Google Authenticator is the only app I actually need, it's required to authenticate for a whole bunch of services at work. My employer paid my iPhone, and future upgrades, so it's their call, but I'd be just as happy with something like Nokia 104. Assuming that I could get an Google Authenticator app for it, my employer could save $1000+ every 18 to 24 month.

You can write a Google Authenticator script that works on your PC you know. It's about 20 lines of code. Also there are many freeware apps available for PCs.

Or you could use a Yubikey to store the secrets, and https://github.com/Yubico/yubioath-desktop on your desktop. That way you would still have a portable second factor, and it would be very very hard to extract the secrets.

you could replace google authenticator with a yubikey

There is always Windows Phone ducks

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