Daniël

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2026-04-06 19:28:57 CEST

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Moreover, what is better for longevity, a phone that gets nearly all updates on day 1 and has an SoC that is fast enough for years to come or a phone that is a security risk from day 1 and had a pretty mediocre SoC even when it was released?
E.g. Fairphone promised at least five years of updates for the Fairphone 4. However, in 2026 it still running a Linux patch release (4.19.197) from 2021.

2026-04-06 19:22:25 CEST

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Conflict-free minerals are a good point, but you save a lot more minerals (and thus labor extracting these minerals) by buying a second-hand phone, or ensuring that your phone gets a good second life by e.g. selling it.

2026-04-06 17:17:56 CEST

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maybe buying a second-hand Pixel is an option? Re-using a phone is a great way of reducing the impact of phone production.
Fairphone is bad when it comes to security. It doesn't have a secure element like the Titan M2 in the Pixel (only TrustZone) and their kernels, firmware blobs etc. are way outdated. Even on the FP6 they are still shipping firmware blobs from June last year, even though Qualcomm does monthly security bulletins.

2026-03-06 11:20:46 CET

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So instead you pick a phone developed by a UAE company, with parts of the software maintained by the same UAE company?
At least you could do yourself a favor and get equivalent Volla Phone Quintus hardware for 500 Euro off: https://www.amazon.ae/Android-Smartphone-Storage-Octa-Core-Monetization/dp/B0DDYDZC4V?th=1
That's currently 164 Euro.
Of course, that's just in jest... just pick up a second-hand Pixel and install @npub1kwa…e0nj and get an actually secure phone with as much or little Google as you want (degoogled by default).

2026-02-20 13:12:03 CET

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Most Linux phone OSes have *far worse* security than Android.
Why not just use an AOSP-based OS like @npub1kwa…e0nj ? You get all of the upsides and very few to none of the downsides.
Even if you do not like Google's decisions, just ditching the engineering marvel that is AOSP does not make much sense at all.