Curious what phones are more privacy-focused.
Pixel6 with grapheneOS
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A pinephone with postmarketOS and sxmo
How’s the battery life?
It’s not too good. If you’re using it a lot, don’t expect to last a full day. If you don’t do much and have it sleep in the meantime, it’ll be okay.
Oh cool. Do you like it?
Yes, I like the whole idea that gave birth to it and the great communities that are building software for it. But having said that, the hardware is fairly weak compared to what most are used to from a smartphone. It also proves quite hard to reliably make use of the modem for basic telephony features. It works… most of the time …
Pixel 6 with CalyxOS.
Fairphone 3+ with /e/OS. It has been 3 years now, still working fine, and no major problems really. It is expensive for what you get, but if it can help reducing e-waste and spare me the burden of buying a phone every 2 years, I think it’s worth.
I’m using a pixel 6a with GrapheneOs
Just ordered a 6a. Any idea how that works with the esim? I’ve never done esim or graphene, so although I’m familiar with different roms I have no idea what the setup experience is like on graphene with a pixel 6a
@theusualuser @upliftedduck using graphene OS in a pixel is a smooth experience. I have a 4a 5g and I love it… I am going to switch to a 6a in September because 4a 5g is on EOL on graphene OS in November.
Regarding esim I also would like to know about it because I wanna try it with graphene OS alsoPrivileged eSIM management can be enabled in Settings ➔ Network & Internet ➔ Privileged eSIM management. The toggle will be greyed out and unusable if sandboxed Google Play is not installed, as the functionality is reliant on it.
more info: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play-esim
hope this helps
Not using the esim, but i am interested to know as well
You may read about the esim here https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play-esim
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Fairphone with /e/OS. I also like the fair-trade and repairability aspects of it.
How’s the performance/longevity of the Fairphone in your experience?
Super happy. I’ve had mine since pre-pandemic and it’s still working perfectly. It’s even survived an accidental mud bath, I could then open it up myself and clean it.
That’s nice! Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like it’s available in the US just yet but I’ll keep my eyes peeled
You can also keep an eye on the forum in case someone wants to sell theirs.
same here, I worked on postmarket OS port for the FP3 too but I don’t have the time anymore.
Pixel 4a with GrapheneOS
Me too. We are losing support in August this year. I’m likely getting a 6a then which will be supported until July 2027.
I’m probably getting a new phone in October or November. Depends on when I have enough money.
I’m either getting the 6a or 7a. I guess the 7a is more powerful but also more expensive.
I recently got myself a Pixel 7 Pro. the preinstalled OS really tries to push all the Google stuff on you, which isn’t great.
but after a quick look around for 1 hour, I installed GrapheneOS and am very happy with italthough I’d really like to have a Linux smartphone. but there seems to be none with good hardware…
Android uses the Linux kernal, so it is technically linux
Nah, I wanna have a real Linux system, complete with userspace environment and my complete control over everything
GrapheneOS is pretty cool for now though.
I haven’t tried PostmarketOS.But I’m so in love with my Steam Deck. it’s just pure beauty to have a complete Linux system in this lovely package. I can just ssh into it :-D
so, it would be awesome to have a device, that would fit in my IT environment. Apple products work better/exclusively with Apple products, Linux stuff works better with Linux stuff.
You can flash your own mobile linux os to it. I know a guy who did. But he was very knowledgeable about that stuff. And so privacy focused he wouldn’t even show it off 😭
I haven’t checked for the Pixel for now, but for every older phone (usually OnePlus’) there was always something missing - only the OP One was well supported, which speaks for this company’s decisions…
I doubt he put actual Linux. There is no Linux distros for pixel phones above the 4a. You can put termux on your phone but that’s really not the same thing. Trust me I’ve been looking lol
Right the Linux phones seem to be more for tinkering than anything. I can’t really convince myself that’d be suitable for my every day life lol
Fairphone 3(+, well it’s only half way between plus and non-plus)
running /e/OS (ridiculous stupid name)
it’s okay - but too expensive for okay
I wish Fairphone would release a version with antennas suitable for use in NA. I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
it isn’t the phone itself but the operating system on it that makes it private.
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Moto g7 play with lineageOS 20 + microg + magisk delta I’m also running adaway and blocking all the tracker activities from my apps using app manager, and of course, using the most FOSS as possible for replacing proprietary apps. It works well, but sadly this phone won’t allow me to hide root and the locked bootloader, so no safetynet because of CTS verification.
Edit: if I use hardware attestation disabler on lsposed, it passes
Can you give a little detail how you are blocking the app tracking?
Both with adaway’s firewall and app manager to disable trackers, both applications are available on f-droid.
App manager will block most, if not all tracking activities off applications (Google ads, Google firebase Facebook ads, Amazon ads, and other nasty stuff).
If something passes through, it won’t be able to send anything to their servers as adaway’s firewall will be acting as a middleman blocking the addresses.
Microg also has a part in that, as it sends as little info as possible to google servers, so applications can’t properly use it to display ads, or track my activity, if they simply can at all.
I don’t like GrapheneOS’ creator… I’d rather use LineageOS on my Pixel 3… I also have an Android Pixel 5
GrapheneOS is a fantastic software regardless of its creator. Also didn’t Daniel Micay step down?
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That’s good… he might have only stepped down from lead développer position though
So does he still develop for the GrapheneOS project? I wasn’t sure if he stepped down from just the social spheres or development as well.
Hoping it’s just social media management because the dude is one hell of a developer, but seems to get into beef with a lot of other FOSS projects, developers, and community members. I don’t exactly blame him though, given how stressful the herculean responsibility he took on must be.
Also hope he is doing well.
He also stepped down from development I believe.
It was from all positions. you can read the post here :( https://grapheneos.social/@DanielMicay/110437191840640957
Sorry to hear that he was swatted, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone…
It makes me sad. I miss them. I wish people would be nice to them.
😥 Yes, you may read about Daniel’s departure here https://grapheneos.social/@DanielMicay/110437191840640957
😥 yes, you can read the full post here where Daniel explains
Fairphone 3+ with ungoogled lineage OS
