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We should push other phone OEM's such as Fairphone and Samsung to work with PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, and Ubuntu Touch (www.extremetech.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Its always good to try!

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[–] 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (13 children)

I remember the GrapheneOS team saying that they won't bring their OS to Fairphone, because the Fairphones doesn't bring hardware support for security measures the GrapheneOS team doesn't want to compromise on.

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  • [–] -3 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Take anything the lead dev of GrapheneOS says with a grain of salt. He's a little... Um, special.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    While his perceptions of other people's motives and meanings may be suspect, his technical analysis seems pretty spot on.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    His technical chops are without question. However he has been so over the top obnoxious to MANY other leaders in the privacy space. He really hurts his own cause by refusing to acknowledge there are other threat models that can be solved with other answers.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (5 children)

    Let's call a spade a spade: He is a raging asshole with severe clinical paranoia. I'm literally certain that if he saw this post he'd accuse me of being a shill for calyxos and to never fucking again interact with any grapheneos account. Both have happened to me before (Hence I refuse to ever interact with his troupe again, even though I use graphene and agree with the vast majority of its technical decisions; I have also stopped actively recommending it to anyone, the social media experience is simply way too attrocious).

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    So just to verify you still use it because you realize and know its the most secure option.

    Idk maybe our threat models are different but I could care less if someone is an asshole or a paranoid schizophrenic - as long as I am having the most private and security conscious user experience available then who cares?

    You could still recommend it, since you already seem to know it is the most secure or else you most likely would have switched by now, but just explain that the social media side of it can be disheartening.

    I will say, I've never had a single problem in any of the GOS forum pages on there website. Not a single one.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    I cannot, in good conscience, recommend a project with a lead that is as verbally abusive and utterly unable to appreciate even highly constructive criticism as Micay, technical merits notwithstanding. I am fine when others recommend it though.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child)

    He stepped down as lead in 2023 but I do think he is still one of the directors or something like that. He doesn't use social media anymore either because most people feel like you did about it and he was a dick I'll admit that.

    But man small price to pay for the most proven security on phones in my opinion.

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