How good is /e/ privacy based LineageOS fork?

[tritonium@midwest.social]

You're an imbecile

[tuxenthusiast@sopuli.xyz]

After my fairphone 3 died, I bought a Fairphone 4 via murena.

wait you didn't buy a replacement battery? 🤨

[nudenewt@lemm.ee]

Damn. That's such a shame, I was considering the fairphone with /e/ os but it's looking less and less appealing. I guess flashing it with CalyxOS and removing/replacing microg might be the better option. Either that or bite the bullet and get a pixel n' flash GrapheneOS to it.

I deeply aplreciate your expansion on the matter

[chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de]

GrapheneOS is the best option we have today.

Don't forget to donate to the project.

https://grapheneos.org/donate

[imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Good call deleting that trash comment.

[imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I do. I think its a bit overblown as none of these operating systems are completely degoogled.

I think its much better to focus on things like not having apps with privileged access this includes, a lot of peoples go to play services replacement, MicroG.

[nudenewt@lemm.ee]

Even at the cost of using a Google phone? In any case if I decide to go with it I'll be sure to donate match the price of whichever pixel I end up with ty

[daytonah@lemmy.ml]

I kinda took out my old phone (Sony) and flashed on that.... And running parallel while I degoogle myself.... Takes some time to change all email registrations from govt. And tax authorities to other external services like docs, banks and stuff....so doing dual phone for a fee weeks and then dropped main phone (fairphone5) to fully shift on e/os phone (sony).. And then will reset the ex-main phone (ff5) when degoogle is complete... I am too busy these days so it's taking very long. (Also clean up Google inboxes and then back up vs. Backup and then clean up old inboxes is a struggle for me). Once fully complete I will flash ex-mainphone FF5 with e/os as well and switch to it And then use the 2nd phone to shift my partner and kids slowly. And in a year or next upgrades I think I might buy my family older pixel phones and flash e/os on them.

Maybe you should also get a side phone to start the project.

[actionschnils@feddit.org]

It wasnt the battery, sadly. Some Fairphone3 have the issue, that their mainboard(?) is breaking down after a couple of years without any clear reason - and I was the lucky one. Its the only "unreplaceble" part and kind of phone breaker. Sure, you can replace this too, but it would somheow be like buying a new phone.
At this point, the fairphone 4 was alreasy released, so I took the upgrade.
Fairphone 4 and 5 have now a waranty of 5 instead of 2 years. So at least on this point ill be save for 3 years more

[lumiluz@slrpnk.net]

I think it supports Galaxy S9

[fredselfish@lemmy.world]

Not bad idea.

[skarn@discuss.tchncs.de]

I can empirically say, that just switching from stock to a degoogled ROM gave me a significant battery boost. I have no idea what that thing was doing in the background, but it's already doing a lot less of that.

For microG... Until UnifiedPush becomes more widespread the choice between having your notifications go through FCM and halving your battery life is going to be a tricky one.

[tuxenthusiast@sopuli.xyz]

Oh ok

[hiro8811@lemmy.world]

It's hard to compare the security of systems. Also how is IOS number2!? Theres a lot of research put into finding holes in hardware and software since they are so popular, also they have backdoors for the government baked in along their walled garden.

Speaking about privacy, there are alot of gains from passing from a closed source ROM to a open sourced one. Or even better to an open sourced phone running Linux(yes I know very few can daily drive them).

On security it's complicated and depends on many factors.

[asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev]

So more security equals more privacy?
Is that why iOS is second in your rankings?

[imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Not necessarily, there are tons of things that are very secure but not at all private.

But.. having a massive attack surface and known security issues and thinking your data is somehow private because you use a FOSS application is silly.

[asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev]

You do have a good point. However, I can’t consider a proprietary operating system like iOS truly private. It may be secure (certainly more so than stock Android and some random custom Android based ones) but if I can’t be sure that my operating system isn’t spying on me, then security alone doesn’t matter much for me tbh. Apple’s operating systems are no exception to this.

So, in a ranking that considers both security AND privacy, iOS being the second one is questionable. However, if the ranking is based solely on security, then I have no issue with it.

[imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I think a lot of your reasoning there is actually FUD and you might want to take a more evidence based approach.

[galacticgrapefruit@lemmy.world]

Came here literally to comment this. Hooooly fuck, I would not trust /e/ as far as I can throw a Fairphone. Good thing they're compostable, becauze that's the only up they have on a Graphene flash.

Until I can take a basic actionable step to ensuring my information is safe like LOCKING MY BOOTLOADER... I am good over here.

[galacticgrapefruit@lemmy.world]

$150 for a refurb Unlocked Pixel 6 from eBay. That's both cheaper, more ecologically friendly, and better for your privacy than /e/ can ever hope for.