• lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      Get a Sony Xperia III, update the original firmware to Android 13, unlock the bootloader then install the corresponding version of LineageOS (or any GSI ROM made for 13).

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      Well, fuck Google.

      Android isn’t at fault here. Get a non-Google version of Android and a phone runs faster, with significantly less battery consumption.

      Google services really screw the pooch, as they say. Lineage/DivestOS and Graphene are lightning fast on my 2018 flagship. I get a day out of it now, (with it’s old battery) , when it was new I got half a day…at best. Google Services consume upward of 8% per hour, depending on installed apps.

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          That’s a good point, unfortunately.

          It’s all a result of Android being a monolithic OS. I’d bet when Google bought Android (around 2000, it was still fresh), this was a “kkown issue” and Google decided they just needed to get it out there, rather than develop a standard hardware interface layer.

          I’m sure they also considered the advantage to them (and vendors) in being able to force dependence on those drivers.

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      This feels like cybersecurity cosplay

      you want a kilswitch on a camera you go for a slideable plastic covering, like most laptops have, because you can’t hack “being able to look through solid objects” into a phone camera

      why would this just be an electronic disconnect. Love to bee concerned enough about privacy to not trust google, but I do trust random kickstarter that they wire their phones up properly and also that it gets to me with no intervention

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    Good for them. The Murena One was just a rebranded OED. This one is interesting, because of the switches, but the processor isn’t exactly brand spanking new.

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    Interesting concept, but seems just like a phone with privacy switches and a non-Google OS. How is it on security, hardening? How would it compare to GrapheneOS?

    To be fair, GrapheneOS does require a Pixel, but that’s because those phones are the best in terms of security, and can be privacy as well.

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      I run their OS /e/ on my fairphone 4. As someone who just uses a phone for basic stuff its the tits, no bs, no google apps required at all. The built-in tracker blocking etc is great and I like the basic interface.

      Biggest bonus is that my phone lasts maybe 50% longer on a single charge. Was super easy to install too.

      No paying with NFC though, but I don’t mind, I always had my wallet anyway.