Bring on support for more devices, and I'll likely switch with my next phone.
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As an alternative, if you wanted something less secure, and more ethical, consider buying a Fairphone. However GrapheneOS does not support Fairphone at this moment.
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What do you compromise these days going to something like graphene versus a stock pixel? I know the advantages obviously, just wanting clarity on trade offs. Features that become unusable, vulnerabilities, etc.
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Ok, a few things :
- I dislike her pronunciation of GrapheneOS really emphasizing the "ene" part
- For anyone not wanting to be stuck buying a Pixel, new or used (still kind of pricey), look into LineageOS /e/, or CalyxOS (though CalyxOS is paused for an interal audit or something)
- What about other data being sent over your carrier network outside of just Google? You're better off buying a plan for a mobile hotspot so it limits data that IDs you with your IMSI and IMEI info. Carriers otherwise still monetize your data, even though Google isn't getting it.
My next phone will be whatever I want that'll run LineageOS (sure, no "Titan chip") but will run F-Droid store, and only run on a hotspot I'll have with me (for work, goes in my work bag), anywhere else can sit in my car or pocket, etc. It'll help as I use private/FOSS apps, randomized MAC for WiFi, VPN services, etc. Hushed or done 2nd phone nine for WiFi calling, etc
I also have been social media free for over a decade now. No Amazon, no streaming services, and self-host anything I can
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I have a Galaxy S22. How do I do that?
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Hey! Avoid Google by buying a phone from... GOOGLE!
Seriously. I wish the devs would work on bringing the OS to Samsung phones instead. They're just as popular, if not more than Google Pixel phones.
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first of all, posting this here is kinda pointless, ain't a soul here that doesn't know about this thing. second, no ill feelings about madame V., the world is better with her work in it, but this ain't the audience for it as her work is kinda superficial and, again, directed at a different audience.
third and final, fuck grapheneos. fuck the pixel. and fuck google. and fuck the premise that the only way you can escape their clutches is buying new shit.
if you think this thing is a good idea, that'd be as if linux can run only on a couple of the most recent thinkpads and nothing else. would you still be into it? I know I wouldn't be.
gOS is the easiest to get onto hardware and that's why this thing dominates the youtube slop sphere. you try to make flashing lineageOS into a coherent video, you'd lose all of your audience, presto.
for the 99,9% of us that ain't a buncha jason bournes on the run from 5eyes and friends, lineageOS is plenty fine and secure as is.
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Yea... Sure. You think Google doesn't have hardware level telemetry? Ok buddy.
I got beach front property to sell you in Kansas.
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I ran graphene on a Pixel 4A 5G for a while until that phone inexplicably died.
I now have a Pixel 8 Pro, and I haven't installed Graphene on it. Why? Google wallet.
That shit is so convenient. That I can leave my own wallet at home and tap to get on transit, tap my work's virtual credit card, etc is holding me back from a second install.
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