But the walled garden is so beautifully trimmed and everything just works…
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Just admitting you can't take care of your own garden.
Security vs convenience is always a trade off in tech. I 100% use apple with the family so I have less tech support phone calls. My time is scarcer than bitcoin.
Brother. My family is 100% Android. I don't play tech support with my parents, or my wife, or my kids. Again it's not 10 years ago. Don't believe Apple's BS marketing. Get a Pixel. đź«‚
It's not 10 years ago. You should try a Google Pixel phone. Don't use Samsung.
Samsungs bloatware was the worst.
Might fuck around with GrapheneOS.
Absolutely. Samsung has great hardware crippled by shitty software. Always has been this way.
Graphene is nice, though it's been several years since I've ran it.
I ran custom ROMs on the daily for the better part of a decade. I don't have time for that any longer.
Uses closed source firmware blobs. Could be a honey trap.
“Surprisingly, the deGoogled phone's first connection is to google.com. According to Google, the host android.clients.google.com serves the Google Play Store for periodical device registration, location, search for apps and many other functions. This is strange because we have a deGoogled phone without the Google Play Store. Later we found out that this request originates from microG, an open source re-implementation of Google's proprietary core libraries and applications.
Then it connects to connectivity.ecloud.global which, according to /e/OS, replaces Android's Google server connectivity check connectivitycheck.gstatic.com.
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GrapheneOS has addressed this and called microG out. But still they are uses Google hardware and firmware. As far as I know, no devices can be trusted, even with the most privacy focussed OS running on them.
Any specific pixel version you recommend? Does it matter?