Hi,

A friend wants to degoogle his phone, so I suggested the OS I’m currently using. The one we can’t talk about… He wants a small/compact phone, so I suggested pixel 4a (not buying second hand though), but I’m afraid that planned obsolescence may kill the phone rather soon. What’s your opinion?

Cheers and thank you for your help,

  • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    6 months ago

    Things like gapps are closed source, have full permissions, and cannot be installed only on some profiles.

    Qubes is safer and better compartmentalization.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Things like gapps are closed source, have full permissions, and cannot be installed only on some profiles.

      Except in stock AOSP or grapheneos.

      Agree that qubes is the gold standard. But not to let perfect be the enemy of good, the vast majority of people, the vast majority of people, the VAST majority, are going to be unable to run qubes, either by technical ability, availability of appropriate hardware, or portability reasons.

      Mobile phones for all of their faults, are the most secure piece of general computing hardware most people have in their lives