Hi,

A friend wants to degoogle his phone, so I suggested the OS I’m currently using. The one we can’t talk about… He wants a small/compact phone, so I suggested pixel 4a (not buying second hand though), but I’m afraid that planned obsolescence may kill the phone rather soon. What’s your opinion?

Cheers and thank you for your help,

  • @Grippler@feddit.dk
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    1 year ago

    To be more helpful than the joke comments you’ve received so far, it’s graphene OS that’s causing a lot of controversy.

      • lemmyvore
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        51 year ago

        They claim their security measures are better then other custom ROMs.

          • @FutileRecipe@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            Do they all really? I know GrapheneOS does, and I think DivestOS even says “use my OS to stay as up to date as possible, but if you have a current/supported Pixel, use GrapheneOS instead for superior security.” But I don’t recall other OSes really going “we’re more secure than GrapheneOS and here’s why.”

          • lemmyvore
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            41 year ago

            Hence the controversy! 🙂

            Also, Graphene tend to act superior about it and it pisses people off.

            • TwinTusks
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              91 year ago

              That doesnt sound like a controversy, its bascially “btw, I use arch”

        • @fossphi@lemm.ee
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          41 year ago

          It gets people going, (Daniel) 'Mkay?

          I stole this from another lemmy comment, please don’t come after me

            • @fossphi@lemm.ee
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              11 year ago

              Can’t really remember right now. I think it was a thread on which phone to buy and people were talking about graphene os on pixels.

              Someone commented something along the lines of “m’lady” but with Daniel Micay’s name as a pun