In hindsight, I should've added a few more..

Repairability/sustainability: Easy to repair, sustainably produced.

Ethics: Anti-Big Tech (no Apple, no Samsung etc.), good workers' rights and supply chain. Preferably European.

Privacy: Speaks for itself. Privacy or anonymity, measures that foster it rather than feed data to others.

I feel like Fairphone would hit the Repairability and likely also Ethics (since it's a certified B corporation), but for Privacy, it'd be a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS... but it's Google, and given the CLOUD Act...

Maybe I could add accessibility there too, interface customisation (I like the iOS interface ways, but still, it's Apple), but that's a separate category.

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[โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago (10 children)

the best option unfortunately is Google Pixel with GrapheneOS

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  • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    But how do we know there's no backdoor fuckery?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    In GrapheneOS?

    We don't. We just have to trust. But that's the same for everything.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    GrapheneOS is FOSS though? We donโ€™t have to trust. If you want to, you can look at the source code yourself

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, but will you? In reality it takes trust for most. Personally, I don't think I could tell a sophisticated back door [pervy emoji] from a hello world! script.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I wonโ€™t, but the code being open makes it easy for third parties to inspect. So I suppose Iโ€™d be trusting that other people who are savvier and more paranoid than me have taken a look and made sure itโ€™s safe.

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