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.
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.