You’re not talking about growing up, you’re talking about giving up.

It ensures that non-power users stay in the clutches of Google.

Yrs, you need to update.

I mean… Depends on your threat model. Hetzner is a very reputable German hoster. The only way someone is going to try and read and puzzle together memory dumps is if you’re under investigation for something seriously heinous.

Shutting the VPS down also solves this.

But really, this is a general problem with every “someone else’s computer” solution.

E2EE still nice though, wish Immich had it.

LUKS isn’t cumbersome, you should really enable it on nearly every Linux system.

Anyways, what do you mean “allowed”?

I have a Hetzner root server set up this way btw, have to ssh in to decrypt the zfs pool before boot.

Do note though, this does not protect from an attacker with physical access reading memory.

Graphene explicitly says the 400k are worldwide. You cannot then go ahead and use the US numbers for your comparison. From your own source, Google shipped 10 million Pixel 9 devices in 2023 alone. This does not account for other/older pixel models, or the sum total of sales before that point, or since.

Why not just share the actual number: worldwide, there’s 400k users.

A substantial amount of open source devs will probably just give up working on their projects if they can no longer be installed by most users.

That will also affect Graphene users.

Graphene will also only work until Google one day says “You know what… No!” and stops allowing it on their (new) hardware. I don’t think that’s far in the future.

Thanks for sharing! Sounds about as good/bad as I was expecting. How’s the browser experience? Also, are there any features/tweaks you are aware of that you could not get through Nix, that the more “commercial” Linux device manufacturers have developed for their devices?

Holy crap! A NixOS-on-phone user in the wild! You are rocking my dream setup. How’s your experience been with it? Is it remotely daily drivable for phone things?

Just waiting for the pain to be enough to switch to Linux on a phone.

Main drawbacks right now:

• I have one health-related (open source) app that I NEED to work flawlessly
• Navigating the various UIs seems incredibly awkward and inconsistent