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,

    • 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