I’ve hated on grapheneos in every thread they reared their ugly head in on account of their elitist disposition, positing that the only way you can feel halfway safe and secure is by spending more money. that’s not taking into account the repugnant toxicity demonstrated each and every time them fucks decide to let their feelings be known.
this motorola thing had the potential to end this. things looked good, finally we’re done with giving money to google to escape its clutches! good lineup of somewhat old but competent snapdragon tech that has wide alt-OS support.
now that we’re out of the “wishing” phase, this thing is a joke. a nothing-burger, aimed at clueless consumerism-addled folks who treat this as rooting for a sports team.
fuck poor people. fuck the truckloads of existing hardware that is more than up to task. only on premium headsets. wait a decade or so before we get around to it. and that’s ignoring the idea that everything is gonna cost a multiple of what we’re used to due to the global shortage and a coupla three wars out there.
positing that the only way you can feel halfway safe and secure is by spending more money.
Graphene is aimed to provide a secure os for people targeted by attacks which need such things. If you dont need something like this, dont use it.
I like the analogy with cars: not everyone needs an off road ford, but just because you can’t afford a humvee dosent mean that someone working at a state park won’t need it. The same way, its great that your needs are fulfilled by a golf 4, but those aren’t everyone’s needs.
Also lineage and calyx are the only real android based systems which address their actual audience. /e/, iode and whatever are worse than stock OS with their integrated subscription DNS blocker and unencrypted cloud services. Calling it anything but a google replacement, as in different name, same shit, is a lie.
because clueless influencers and their ilk are poisoning the media sphere and falsely claiming that grapheneos is the only thing possible and making uninformed people buy this crap, artificially inflating prices - a used pixel costs 4x more than a comparable handset.
if gOS went and published gOS-lite sans the hardware-backed TPM shit - and addressed the oceans of discarded tech we’re drowning in - I’d shut the fuck up about it. if the only gOS users were people liberating their pixels, I’d shut the fuck up about it. if only jason bournes were using it, I’d shut the fuck up about it.
but this glorification is boosting google’s sales. there are people discarding perfectly usable phones (as in lineageOS supported) and getting this fucking thing when the differences don’t begin to touch their threat model in the slightest.
the “new OEM” with gOS was expected like the second coming. turns out, nothing changed. still gonna cost insane amounts of money. still the old, perfectly usable shit will be left behind.
the only way you can feel halfway safe and secure is by spending more money
That’s not something the Graphene devs could change. The firmware on the existing truckload of old hardware is simply outdated and insecure. To fix that would require somebody to write completely new firmware for those devices. You’re free to take the job. Help the community, and the environment, by reviving all those old devices. Free of charge, or course ;)
I’ve hated on grapheneos in every thread they reared their ugly head in on account of their elitist disposition, positing that the only way you can feel halfway safe and secure is by spending more money. that’s not taking into account the repugnant toxicity demonstrated each and every time them fucks decide to let their feelings be known.
this motorola thing had the potential to end this. things looked good, finally we’re done with giving money to google to escape its clutches! good lineup of somewhat old but competent snapdragon tech that has wide alt-OS support.
now that we’re out of the “wishing” phase, this thing is a joke. a nothing-burger, aimed at clueless consumerism-addled folks who treat this as rooting for a sports team.
fuck poor people. fuck the truckloads of existing hardware that is more than up to task. only on premium headsets. wait a decade or so before we get around to it. and that’s ignoring the idea that everything is gonna cost a multiple of what we’re used to due to the global shortage and a coupla three wars out there.
nothing changed. fuck grapheneos.
Genuinely can’t tell whether you’re glad or upset about this new development, this read like a diary entry from a manic bipolar episode
Graphene is aimed to provide a secure os for people targeted by attacks which need such things. If you dont need something like this, dont use it.
I like the analogy with cars: not everyone needs an off road ford, but just because you can’t afford a humvee dosent mean that someone working at a state park won’t need it. The same way, its great that your needs are fulfilled by a golf 4, but those aren’t everyone’s needs.
Also lineage and calyx are the only real android based systems which address their actual audience. /e/, iode and whatever are worse than stock OS with their integrated subscription DNS blocker and unencrypted cloud services. Calling it anything but a google replacement, as in different name, same shit, is a lie.
because clueless influencers and their ilk are poisoning the media sphere and falsely claiming that grapheneos is the only thing possible and making uninformed people buy this crap, artificially inflating prices - a used pixel costs 4x more than a comparable handset.
if gOS went and published gOS-lite sans the hardware-backed TPM shit - and addressed the oceans of discarded tech we’re drowning in - I’d shut the fuck up about it. if the only gOS users were people liberating their pixels, I’d shut the fuck up about it. if only jason bournes were using it, I’d shut the fuck up about it.
but this glorification is boosting google’s sales. there are people discarding perfectly usable phones (as in lineageOS supported) and getting this fucking thing when the differences don’t begin to touch their threat model in the slightest.
the “new OEM” with gOS was expected like the second coming. turns out, nothing changed. still gonna cost insane amounts of money. still the old, perfectly usable shit will be left behind.
That’s not something the Graphene devs could change. The firmware on the existing truckload of old hardware is simply outdated and insecure. To fix that would require somebody to write completely new firmware for those devices. You’re free to take the job. Help the community, and the environment, by reviving all those old devices. Free of charge, or course ;)
how did they hurt you lmao. do you know how to properly direct your anger and frustration or do you just lash out at whomever is most convenient?