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Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS will cost €1.900 (www.heise.de)
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[–] 3 points 4 days ago* (6 children)

Grapheme runs tests on googles firmware regularly.

If it was actively doing something it shouldnt, they'd notice.

You could argue there could be something hidden in the firmware for use by the state when they REALLY REALLY REALLY want to get into something, and are willing to blow a good backdoor on it. But that's also something you deal with on any modern PC, unless you wanna party like its 2011 and run an old FX-Series AMD chip, or a librebooted machine with ME Cleaner. (See Intel ME/AMD PSP)

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  • [–] 11 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    The pixel is still a product of Google that Google benefits from when you purchase it. Some if us want to avoid contributing to their power as much as we can. Not purchasing a Pixel one of those choices.

    Android needs to be replaced as well. I still hold hope for mobile Linux.

    Google doesn't own the PC market.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I usually buy a refurbished Pixel a generation or so behind the current. At least it doesn't directly support Google. Not perfect, but it's what I can afford.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    I understand that logic. But it's the very fact of even owning something that they produced is enough for me to reject it. if for nothing more than I don't want people seeing that i use a pixel phone because then, I benefit Google by acting as free advertising for their devices. Is my view extreme? Maybe, but i really hate the tech oligarchs. They have ruined so much in this world.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago*

    Oh no I'm not saying I like the situation, I'm just saying its currently the only good option if you want something that works this instant.

    I love the idea of desktop Linux in my pocket, I daily drove an OG Pine Phone for a year. After a year for daily driving a Cosmo communicator.

    The support just isn't there and I really really wish it was. I honestly think the federal government needs to step in and fund FLOSS development, but lmao good luck, they don't even pay for cancer treatments.

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