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How is that better than having a dedicated headphones port?
I didn't claim it is better
Fair enough.
How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
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Re: How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
#272Reminder that Android is not Linux. The Linux phone experience is completely different from Android. People who utilize distro's like Ubuntu touch or postmarketOS demand that even firmware level binaries are open sourced. GrapheneOS is great, but it's not Linux, and not even close. If we start to confuse the two, we're confronted with the question about Unix, which is shared among both Android and iOS, so you could e…
> demand that even firmware level binaries are open sourced. The hardware and firmware for those devices is closed source. It's strange to claim users demand something which is not the case. GrapheneOS users want open source hardware and firmware too, but it isn't for any of these projects.
Another more important angle: GrapheneOS creates an appliance, where the user has no freedoms, in that freedom aspect not better than stock Android: The users cannot realistically change any aspect of the OS. Sure, technically they could edit the source, but then they need to compile the whole system, reset their device and lose all data, be cut off from easy updates, and additionally lose remote attestation (which GrapheneOS devs call anti-competitive when used against them, but then gladly provide a variant that inevitably will be used against users.) Users cannot wield any more power over their apps than the apps admit. They cannot patch a binary app that misbehaves. They cannot reroute the environment of that app. And so on.
With AOSPs and Graphenes "security model" there is nothing in-between "dumbest user" and "full-blown developer who cannot even be a proper user of that development system". The user to "advanced user" to "power user" to "tinkerer" to dev pipeline is kept dry. Most of power-user's potential self-defense mechanisms against abusive and monopolist app and service providers are intentionally neutered by Android as well as GrapheneOS.
And hopefully less so by "Linux Phones"
Re: How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
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That's different setting. Typical "legitimate interest" section is about sharing data with 40 "trusted partners".
That's just plainly false.
Have you actually looked at one?
I opened Google News. First site I've seen is t3.com - some review of pebble wearable.
I was greeted by cookie dialog. I clicked "more info" -> "partners" -> "legitimate interest".
131 vendors, including among other "Adform - agentic advertising" who wishes to store laundry list of my data for 10 years.
Re: How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
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That's a lot, I usually use old phones from family members, most of them have 4 years of use by the time I get them and I get a whole day of usage from the battery.
Honestly, not sure. I use Firefox Mobile pretty heavily during the day and I suspect it's part of the drain. I'm not too concerned by it and I just try to replace the battery every ~1-1.5 years.
Me too. But I always have the screen on the lowest brightness possible and use ublock. I mostly read text based pages.