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And typically security is very bad, no good sandboxing, MAC (through e.g. SELinux), etc. I know that doesn't matter to everyone, but in the context of a discussion about GrapheneOS it does.
You’re going to struggle with that with most distros.
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I am patiently waiting for that one. I have been willing to move to GrapheneOS for a while, but I don't feel like buying Google hardware.
Fwiw the pixel phones are excellent hardware.
On a technical level, yea, it may be great hardware but in practice, I don't think it is. As an Android user, I wish it were but it's not. Samsung is so much more reliable as an end user (even with their own issues).
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I am patiently waiting for that one. I have been willing to move to GrapheneOS for a while, but I don't feel like buying Google hardware.
Fwiw the pixel phones are excellent hardware.
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The truly independent solution is GNU/Linux. Sent from my Librem 5.
I don't think it's going to be a savior... the same things that make Android hard to modify can happen just as easily when GNU/Linux phones become popular.
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Your post sounds like you're trying to spread FUD. Librem says the Liberty phone is the same, it just costs more because it is assembled in the U.S. for people, companies, or governments that don't want it intercepted and modified by a bad actor.
This might justify the price of Liberty Phone, but doesn't invalidate my claim that these phones are low-end by todays standards. Why no hardware upgrade after 7 years?
Also this: https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/
I bought a used Pixel 6 for cheap to try out grapheneos. Can't say I like it. UX of lineageos is much better. There is a weird russian doll kind of situation with the package managers going on. There is one builtin "App Store" with only a few basis programs, one of which is another package manager, accrescent, which offers a few more apps, but still not comprehensive at all, so another package manager is needed for w…
F droid is known to be highly insecure. It has many many bad practises that totally compromise security and they have proven to be woefully incompetent and ignorant to concepts as basic as the purpose of app signing. The all apps stemming from app stores in the builting App Store is to provide a minimalist experience by default whilst keeping google play apps accessible. GrapheneOS has a majour focus on accessibility…
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Project member here. > A distro with shady revenue sources (check for yourself) Do me a favor and tell me about our apparent shady revenue sources. We are run entirely by donations, there are large donors too. > with shady hardware restrictions that only permits to use spyware phones from google We cover this topic literally everywhere on a daily basis, with a thorough list of requirements found on our website. > aft…
I'd happily talk in detail about donors when you first make public the values and donor list for the bigger ones, which you don't for some shady reason and only reveal a few. Even from those few, your biggest public donor are the people well known to dodge real privacy in crypto faster than vampires dodging holy water. Please disclose how much money you pay to the blog/media to shill this project so frequently.
You won't do any of this. You know that, I know that, you know that I know that and still you will continue to profit on those who will never read these comments.
I bought a used Pixel 6 for cheap to try out grapheneos. Can't say I like it. UX of lineageos is much better. There is a weird russian doll kind of situation with the package managers going on. There is one builtin "App Store" with only a few basis programs, one of which is another package manager, accrescent, which offers a few more apps, but still not comprehensive at all, so another package manager is needed for w…
First of all, I would like to state that just because a piece of software is free and open source, does not mean it is inherently more secure or private. "Open source" is merely just a licensing term. GrapheneOS has the "App Store" to get the most basic apps required for general usage. Accrescent is distributed there because it follows Android's security baseline for being an actual app repository while F-Droid and A…
Developers are not geniuses at every aspect of security or app deployment. They can sell their projects. Get compromised. Or can get tricked like the xz exploit
Having an app store making any effort to prevent or correct problems, especially as transparent as F-Droid, is better
Wireguard app dev wanting to bypass the store and push an executable to your phone every day is ridiculous. No user of app/package manager expects it to be bypassed
The technical detail that makes this egregious is that the leak happens in system_server, a privileged process. Android’s own lockdown mode explicitly promises that no traffic bypasses the VPN. When the system itself sends the packet over the physical interface, that promise is broken at the kernel level, not in userspace. Calling this “not security bulletin class” is hard to defend.
I bought a used Pixel 6 for cheap to try out grapheneos. Can't say I like it. UX of lineageos is much better. There is a weird russian doll kind of situation with the package managers going on. There is one builtin "App Store" with only a few basis programs, one of which is another package manager, accrescent, which offers a few more apps, but still not comprehensive at all, so another package manager is needed for w…
> so another package manager is needed for which grapheneos people seem to favor obtainium over f-droid, which I find is another strange decision So just download f-droid yourself? Why the fixation on having a definitive, preloaded app store? >I much prefer a fully OSS package manager and there is real value in having people compile from the sources externally, maybe even reproducibly so, instead of trusting the gith…
Also Neo Store, Accrescent