• @Infomatics90@lemmy.ca
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    86 months ago

    The problem is that most phones don’t support ROM’s like Graphene or Linage, as people installing custom roms is a relic of years past. Next time you get a phone, think about if you want this option for yourself. Also, do keep in mind that some phones have HW backdoors on them, so even installing a stock rom/graphene does not save you from privacy.

    • humble peat digger
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      86 months ago

      They made it very hard to install roms.

      There is this orange warning on boot.

      Then banking apps don’t work.

    • @kirk781@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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      16 months ago

      That’s true. Graphene is majorly Pixel limited, I guess. And even Lineage has a small set of devices when one considers the nos of OEMs and variants they manufacture per year.

    • @Rykzon@discuss.tchncs.de
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      16 months ago

      Even pixel or Fairphone is fairly free of bloatware compared to Samsung and shitty Chinese brands as long as you are not privacy paranoid about Google services.

        • @Rykzon@discuss.tchncs.de
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          16 months ago

          And that’s fine, but first people like you (and me to some extent) are in the vast minority and that’s also not an issue of bloatware per se.

          • @Infomatics90@lemmy.ca
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            26 months ago

            yeah the only problem is that i have to participate in this hellhole capitalist society. Im trying to figure out what the best VPN is to use, along side if tor is worth using.