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          LineageOS with microg works for most devices

          Issue is that it is no secure. People should be buying pixels flashing calyx or graphene going forwaed in ther next upgrade IMHO

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            Issue is that it is no secure.

            Explain. I’m tired of hearing this boogeyman, tell me exactly how Lineage is “not secure” but Graphene is?

            Then maybe give me some examples of cases where that difference has actually been a problem.

            Because it feels like a lot of these “unsecure” things people hand-wring over are really just user freedoms they may user to hurt themselves, not actual vulnerabilities that can’t be avoided with common sense.

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              Primarily because bootloader is not lockable, plus delayed updates.

              Also, they do some weird thing with how it is developed. I think it is always in some weird “developer” state but I don’t remember details.

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      If a phone can’t be flashed to a different OS, then it can be degoogled with adb via pc, or Shizuku + Canta directly on the phone. There are other apps besides Canta that also work, but Canta is the easiest for non-techies to use.

      Never buy an Apple product if you value sovereignty. Androids can be tweaked to cut out big brother.

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          Google is overreaching, yet again. That’s the gist of it. They want to be a monopoly. Better to get out now, than to wait until they’re so engrained in our lives that they become a shadow government. Our best short-term fix is to break up the company like we did to AT&T. Our best long-term fix is to erraticate money and corporate influence from politics entirely.

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              2 months ago

              There are more options, you just have to look. GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS, DivestOS, /e/OS… Android is not synonymous with Google. Android is open source. All the OSs I’ve listed are based off of Android, and are open source. Google has their own version of Android, which is closed source. But it’s just another OS based off of AOSP.