So I got Fairphone 4, with /e/ os, a couple of days ago. When I connected it to my NextDNS I saw that it was trying to connect to some weird addresses, like every 5-10 minutes. I searched Internet a bit and found out that it was something with snapdragon cpu and location services. I travel a lot and use Organic Maps for navigation, so location was enabled almost all day on the phone. I turned off location services and connections stopped, and everything was fine for a couple of days.
Today I came home, checked logs in NextDNS and saw that phone started doing the same connections almost constantly even with location turned off.
Can I do something about this, other than allowing these connections? These connections are probably so numerous because they are getting blocked. If I allowed them, phone would maybe call home once in a couple of hours. I would rather not allow them, but I don’t want 20% of battery to be eaten by this.
Why so much hate towards GrapheneOS? The thing is carefully planned and executed. About Calyx… just don’t forget that you won’t get a secure boot… anyone who gets you phone can temper with your boot.
I don’t hate GrapheneOS, it is probably fine. I just don’t think I would feel comfortable running an OS on my phone when its main dev acts like this. That’s just me and completely subjective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
Yes I’m aware of his bad soft skills… either way he does good work and he’s capable of working on small details while still seeing the bigger picture - this makes him able to spot and fix stuff others would miss easily. Example that stuff you’ve reported.
Wasn’t that the guy who stepped down from development entirely because of the backlash? Louis himself is still using it afaik
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