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I haven't looked into it much yet but grapheneOS has apparently come a far way and has an easy installer nowadays.
Only reason I've paused is I have to use a private 2fa authenticator for work and not sure if it'd work on the OS, but it looks like they've gotten most major bank apps work on it so that's one less obstacle
Unfortunately they don't support any devices besides Google's Pixel: https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support
Supporting at least major Samsung models would help adoption.
GrapheneOS puts 0 compromises on user-security in addition to privacy. They don't really have anything to gain by supporting less secure hardware to drive adoption.
Motorola seems to be cashing in on providing the alternative, though, which is a win for everyone
Unfortunately Samsung is making it more difficult to impossible to unlock the bootloaders of their recent devices, but you can reflash some of their older models at least to ROM's like crDroid - https://crdroid.net/
Buying Samsung is never the solution to anything. Plus, Motorola will have some cutting edge devices supported by GOS in about a year or so.
Or so....
I hope that means under a year, haha.
Saying the year of the Linux phone is the new year of the Linux desktop.
For me it has been the year of the Linux desktop for the last 8 years. I haven't missed anything for this long. I'm looking to get some detachable laptop, Intel 10th gen or newer to install CachyOS + GNOME on it, and make this the year of the Linux tablet for me. For the Linux phone, I'm not holding my breath, but certainly hope it isn't long before we can just choose to get rid of Android as well.
Had not idea, that really sucks. Guess im in the same boat with samsung..
which 2fa do you use for work? microsoft? authy?
Authy doesnt work so I am transferring all to Keepass Not sure about microsoft though
Its their own proprietary one, not sure what runs underneath it.
It's not an easy install if it literally can't be fucking installed on most devices.
Had no idea, no reason to get hostile about it.
Sorry, I've had a lot of assholes telling people to use GrapheneOS like it's super easy for most people to just go out and get a specific phone that is relatively low in market share (making them harder to find second hand too) like it's as easy as running to the store for a loaf of bread and they get super aggressive when called out on it and it has, in turn, been pissing me off.
GrapheneOS is legitimately great IF you have a device that can run it, which most people don't. A lot of it's fans are raging assholes. Sorry for assuming you were one of them.
No worries, I had actually assumed that with all the people suggesting it it was a bit more ubiquitous, but apparently I was mistaken.
You just won the most moronic phrase of the week. That's like saying there's no point to sd cards because there are devices that don't have a way ro use them.
If you were already talking about limited storage on devices that typically can't use SD cards, then yes, you're a fucking idiot if you say "Just use an SD card to increase your storage! It's EASY!" Which is what you're doing when people are talking about Android issues and you say the same fucking thing about GrapheneOS.
TL;DR: There's a moron here, but it isn't me.