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GrapheneOS user and community member here. TLDR: The blog post that this thread links is full of misrepresentations and falsehoods about what GrapheneOS offers and also is heavy mi…

KiwiFarms is a platform created for the purpose of cyber bullying, harassment and encouraging self-harm. This is very different from a general purpose social media platform that ha…

Rossman leaked private messages without properly giving background information about preceding private conversations that they had and about the circumstances that occured just bef…

> Even if it improves accessibility, it must be rejected out of hand GrapheneOS has many exploit mitigations and those that would break compatability with too much apps are opt-in …

Phones, to just give one example, at least have fine-grained run-time permission controls while on Linux apps can just access anything the user can, except if you use something lik…

That's not at all what Google announced. It has nothing to do with devices. It has to do with OSes, most notably OSes certified by Google, which GrapheneOS isn't. Also, it will be …

This is a production grade OS, it's made by professionals, it's not hobbyist. It keeps up with updates of upstream Android and Linux kernel. It has a ton of good security and priva…

ChromeOS (most secure OS), MacOS (most secure firmware and still much more secure OS compared to non-ChromeOS competitors)

What do you think the major practical downsides are? Maybe you are not aware of how many things perfectly work or how easy some workaround are, so I am wondering.

It works but you need to install the Google Fi app from the Google Play Store.

That's not at all a similar approach so it doesn't quality as "if anyone wants *this*). The GrapheneOS feature pretends the network is down and local host is also inaccessible. Thi…

Leaving USB dubbing enabled just exposes a lot of attack surface. And if you use USB debugging you are placing a lot of trust in the computer you are connecting to. You don't need …

It doesn't make it more possible to irreversibly brick your phone. Even if you set it to the most strict setting the port still works when you are in the bootloader and recovery mo…

> /e/OS focuses on privacy (i.e. reducing data leakage to adtech) /e/OS literally sends STT data straight to OpenAI... /e/OS uses priviliged MicroG, which connects to Google for so…

You can perfectly fine use it without, many people do. If you can tell us what issues you exactly bump into when trying to use the phone without Play, feel free to share, we might …

> They deliberately conflate security with privacy (you even write "secure/private" as though they're the same thing) in a way that does a disservice to users. That's not really tr…

Regarding location, please see my comment higher in the thread about the location rerouting through GrapheneOS. Also, it's not a better option to use MicroG. MicroG is in most OSes…

Communication between apps using IPC happens on mutual consent and is explicit. You can't just throw data to Play Services and expect it to accept it and process it well, that's no…

> recommend you install proprietary apps GApps in their sandbox They don't recommend you to do that. They tell people that if people want to install apps, Google Play Store is a se…

https://mastodon.social/@gael/115067300718940033 https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/1996683131358007487#m here you go

The founder of /e/OS regularly comments on posts about GrapheneOS on social media, almost always unsubstantive and of a low level.

There are some problems with this, often if a microSD card is used the storage on that SD card isn't encrypted because of the portability goal of it. It would be a bad fit for the …

They for sure control the direction of the development but it's not really that problematic given that things downstream projects take issue with can just be removed from the sourc…

If your criterium for choosing an OS is tinkering and hackability freedom to do modify almost anything to your liking (even if it will compeltely break your system or poke extra se…

It's more common in banking apps than in other apps to implement Play Integrity but it's cetainly not "most banks" that do it. It's still only a small subset. Sucks of course if it…