• Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What a terrible approach to security.

    You wouldn’t need hardware switches if you could trust your software not to try and fuck you.

    Fuck android and fuck Google.

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      1 year ago

      Well, fuck Google.

      Android isn’t at fault here. Get a non-Google version of Android and a phone runs faster, with significantly less battery consumption.

      Google services really screw the pooch, as they say. Lineage/DivestOS and Graphene are lightning fast on my 2018 flagship. I get a day out of it now, (with it’s old battery) , when it was new I got half a day…at best. Google Services consume upward of 8% per hour, depending on installed apps.

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        1 year ago

        I’m talking about the fact that if you need to rely on physical switches, your security is already compromised. Correct me if I am wrong but the AOSP forks are still using binary blobs for the modem, which means even if you’re running those forks, you still cannot reasonably trust the software.

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          1 year ago

          That’s a good point, unfortunately.

          It’s all a result of Android being a monolithic OS. I’d bet when Google bought Android (around 2000, it was still fresh), this was a “kkown issue” and Google decided they just needed to get it out there, rather than develop a standard hardware interface layer.

          I’m sure they also considered the advantage to them (and vendors) in being able to force dependence on those drivers.