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we dont deserve GrapheneOS (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by not_IO to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 56 points 1 month ago
[-] cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

hey font off, font you ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[-] not_IO 8 points 1 month ago

lol i corrected it

[-] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 55 points 1 month ago

I would argue that everyone deserves privacy and freedom

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Some people don't realize they actually need those, as in some countries the concept of privacy is seen as a suggestion by even millions of people, and those people literally from which techbros like Zuck -- whose insistence people stop being anonymous -- farm their millions.

[-] okamiueru@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago

It's also what Linux should be doing in general,. It's not even the US. It's a fucking state in the US that is doing something stupid on behalf of Meta.

Any Linux distro should just put the onus on the CA legislature. Have a TOS that specifies that it does not comply with CA law, and as such isn't legal there. No need for any implementation change. Businesses in CA can take it upon themselves to comply by maintaining a fork that adds any sort of BS. But, more than likely, the dimwits who didn't know better and listened to Meta, might be surprised to find jusy how much everything runs on Linux (except a tiny number of user facing devices).

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

Many distros are run by large companies that don't care. RedHat, Canonical, etc.

[-] qaeta@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Run by, or are downstream of ones run by.

[-] bold_omi@lemmy.today 41 points 1 month ago

No, we absolutely deserve it because privacy is a fundamental right.

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Motorola will probably want to ship a compliant* device in those regions.

"So be it" may mean you'll just buy the device with stock AOSP, and a warranty condition that allows flashing GrapheneOS. Hell, you'd slip a piece of paper in the box with flashing instructions.

[-] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

That's likely exactly what it means.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

i feel like there has to be a way to have a system option that automatically installs graphene

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

Looks like the normal font to me. ;)

But anyway, they're still only gonna run on Pixel phones (and Motorola soon, apparently).

It's one thing to say "my custom firmware does X, Y, Z," but if you can't install it on any Android phone... I think it's time we stop treating Android like some kind of bastion of freedom or privacy. Android maintainers and custom firmware developers have talked about a unified base for over a decade and it still hasn't happened yet. If you buy a phone in certain regions (like the US, China, and other limited countries) you can't just install whatever you want. The goal has always been to make phones more like computers, where you can "just install Linux" if you don't like Windows. (Well, not the iPhone, that's always been locked down.) But it's never been true of Android.

The goal is open hardware you can install anything on. Even a modified version of iOS, if someone's got the balls to host it. Kind of like a hackintosh, but a phone version. Like if you had a PC that had similar specs to an Intel Mac, you could run Mac OS on it (as long as that version of Mac OS supported the Mac you were similar to) fairly easily. We need that for phones. Maybe someday.

[-] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

I mean this is a beautiful dream but currently just a dream

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

That's just typecasting.

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I hope it gets popular enough that the devs being squeezed by the latest Android stupidity will just move to a different install model tailored to GrapheneOS.

[-] Willoughby@piefed.world 5 points 1 month ago

Google: that,... isn't up to you

[-] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 5 points 1 month ago

Eh, we got Daniel Mickay and we deserve better than his shitty personality, but I’m glad he’s working on this, he’s good from a technical POV

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

Asbestos free!

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago

Just like every other FOSS ROM.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I totally deserve it.

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] 13igTyme@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

That just means no or a very big pain in the ass yes, depending on what country you're in.

[-] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

It wont last long unless they move to somewhere like the south pole, surveillance and authoritarianism is becoming normalized everywhere in the world

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

That's not how Foss works

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