- cross-posted to:
- alfmir_ai
- cross-posted to:
- alfmir_ai
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I’m on GrapheneOS on tablet and phone running mostly/exclusively open source, so not affected.
We all love grapheneOS, but please stop buying Google Pixels to do it. It’s such a contradicting action to first stuff googles pocket with even more money, and then be like “I am privacy conscious.” Please spend your money on alternatives that will put the money to actually developing good alternatives like FairPhone.
Second hand and refurbished is a thing
Just don’t buy them new, and it becomes far more ethical.
This is a nice list I’d consider for new phones.
- Murena (France) with /e/OS (France) on:
- Fairphone (Netherlands)
- Hiroh (USA)
- SHIFTphone (Germany)
- Teracube (USA)
- Punkt MC03 (Switzerland)
- Volla (Germany) with Volla OS or Ubuntu Touch (Germany)
- Jolla (Finland) with Sailfish OS (Finland)
- Purism Librem (USA, manufactured in the USA)
Purism is a grift, should be removed.
Many people are still waiting on phones they ordered years ago.
- Murena (France) with /e/OS (France) on:
Will it effect free custom ROMs like lineage?
Not directly, but they’ve been making other moves to make life difficult for such users — such as significantly delaying releasing the open source parts they’re supposed to, potentially leaving users on insecure versions for far longer.
Also things like trusted computing preventing things like banking apps from running on rooted OS
So, do I finally need to learn about GrapheneOS? What are other people doing?
Graphene is by far the best. I highly recommend it.
Right now you need a Pixel to run it but soon you can get a Motorola that works with it.
Graphene is only of help (today) if you buy some shit from Google namely a Pixel. If you have another phone, step numero uno is always to learn what custom ROMs are available for your make and model.
Used Pixels are cheap and the money doesn’t go to Google again.
Used Pixels are often pretty misused and refurbished ones cost the same or even more than a new Pixel in my country… which is actually insane. Hopefully the new Graphene collab phone will be good.
Spoiler: it will also be massively expensive
So what is the next fork here? I’ve been handcuffed to android/Google (phones/ tablets) for decades. I have a couple of iPads but they don’t have cellular and don’t fit in your pocket.
Graphene OS
