Here's what you'll need to bypass it:
>2 RISC-V MilkV Jupiter's
>MilkV Mars (a bunch of them) - you want to stack these ontop of your Jupiter SBC w/ an individual ASIC computer running a USB flash drive that you can find on eBay for bitmining
>Hardened Gentoo w/ refused proprietary packages upon setup along with any needed patchwork, and set nftables to exclude any proprietary packages from being downloaded
>instead, you can use Rocket Chip by UC Berkeley, VexRiscV or CVA6 (formerly Ariane) like for example the Linux on LiteX VexRiscV project on Github:https://github.com/litex-hub/linux-on-litex-vexriscv
>install firejail, kvm/qemu, auditd, fail2ban, pyshark, your web browser being either GNU Icecat w/ LibreJS, ELinks (a terminal browser used for scouring neocities and wiby.me), or GNUNet (for example, you can flash GNUNet node software in that each SBC is hosting a separate GNUNet FS (File Sharing) with one of them being the HTTP gateway so that way you can run a mini-cloud for a custom LLM (like Llama or Dolphin 3). This'll make for a better network-based AI acceleration as opposed to running on the device directly. And GNUNet is transport agnostic, you could do this on HAM radio/GNU radio w/ custom PHY on a TI calypso running OsmocomBB (like an old Motorola C123). So you could make a transport-free 2G network on some FPGAs (ULX3S), painfully programmed over months of hard work and scripting. Now you can run IP over GSM (2G/3G) over GNUNet using a LMS7002M/AD9361 to avoid proprietary Wifi modems for something that is open source and implementable via tower and custom network infrastructure or even a lab network for local LLM acceleration only over GNUNet mini-cloud from MilkV Mars computing stack.
>sell homemade TI Calypso chipset analog display w/ 2G antenna and bare circuit boards for a homemade hustle to sell these phones in places where people lack infrastructure, like Afghanistan.
>then take an extra MilkV Jupiter running custom drivers, snap an ath9k PCIe to it, then hook it up to your default ISP router, then hook your open 802.11 IP over DHCP router into your main MilkV Jupiter SBC proproetary GPU-free board and use ethernet for all connections.-so now you can provide for a local area GSM (2G/3G) service and provide LLM acceleration over GNUNet!
-then use a Modos paper display and Keyboardio keyboard/Ploopy mouse for the i/o controllers. All Linux drivers. All open source.
-run Sway (Wayland) over your custom Gentoo profile (openrc/init, not systemd).
-use self-hosted emails (VPS only; do NOT use your homeserver for this!). Use Mozilla Thunderbird or Roundcube for the webmail client, use IMAP/POP3/SMTP/PGP/E2E encryption for all connections. ipserver.su is a good place to start. Then register on Gandi a .su, .to, .rw, .in, or .st ccTLD. Use a personal website to host the emails off of. Give it a domain name (
[email protected]). Then install Anti-DDoS Flood Protection and Firewall by Conor McKnight on Github or haproxy-protection + alonz22/haproxy-dashboard for DDOS + firewall protection on your network that's FLOSS.
Also, you're gonna need a lot of these Ovrdrive USB flash drives. Fully open and documented hardware. Store KeePassXC, BitWarden or masterpassword.app on these USBs, and use it to unlock the computer, using LUKS for encryption protocols. Use a custom SOCKS5 proxy written in Python w/ X25519, Poly1305, ChaCha20 and Kyber for post-quantum cryptographic protection (WARNING: high maintenance, but states like Michigan and Wisconsin want to ban VPN providers like WireGuard; only use if you absolutely know what you're doing, and if you know how to use Gentoo already, chances are you already do).
You can even use GNU Icecat w/ LibreJS and a MilkV Jupiter turned into an open 802.11 IP over DHCP router w/ ath9k PCIe snapped to it and custom drivers running on the board. Use GNU radio as the glue layer software interface. Use custom PHY running on a cheap ulx3s w/ development board/FPGA debuggers. Then use SDR to carry the signal instead of relying on ISPs.
All I would have to do next is simply take a sysmousim, flashed with the compatible Linux capable software and firmwares to connect to SDR mesh for IP over GPRS connections to a custom BBS network that runs in, say, Afghanistan where infrastructure is limited so you can connect the country to a private, local-first, resilient, self-owned network.
But, that is, if you have a BTS tower first.
Okay, so what if you made a modified phone w/ 3D printed pkastic display case w/ analog display just like a regular old Motorola or Nokia. But with modified extensions as a general purpose modem to UART interface for debugging. You say SD/eMMC but I'd stick w/ LiteX and ECP5 NAND along with NOR for data storage on the phone itself. Will require soldering equipment, PCBway for computer class printed circuit boards (PCBs). All open hardware.
You can still use this network backbone for running bitmining experiments w/ ASIC USB flash drive computers to plug into each MilkV Mars SBC w/ Ovrdrive USB w/ each individual password for each individual computer encrypted behind LUKS and other tools in Linux, w/ each USB flash drive marked as for which computer it's supposed to decrypt using KeePassXC stored decryption passwords (not to mention LiteX and USBguard). If you had a cellular modem and SDR equipment in a shack inventory, you could build your base station tower (BTS) for a 2G/3G IP over GPRS GSM network for specific chipsets marketed as bare boards with screens and serial modems at the bottom of the phone w/ ULX3S to allow network connectivity once plugged into a PC as a sort of "plug-and-play". You now act as your own ISP for calls, SMS and BBS style communication over computer w/ preinstalled source code on the modem firmware that connects you to the GNUNet port automatically.
So it goes radio > 2G/3G > internet. Also, you can host FTP over GPRS. Use passive mode (pasv), very small files, resume support (rest), them when configuring your server, use low timeout values, limited connections and small buffer sizes. So file sharing definitely works over GSM, even if limited.
But in the MilkV board running the custom drivers that's hooked up to the default ISP router and main workstation board, it has custom firmware on it that lets you bridge access to the internet with your GSM module.
Yeah, if you used ELinks it can connect to the conventional web. GNU Icecat might work if you only accessed neocities and wiby.me type sites and weaned yourself off the modern web. You can also run IRC client over GSM. Also, for email you can use Mutt / Alpine + IMAP/SMTP.