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,

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      4 months 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.

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              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.”

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              Hence the controversy! 🙂

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

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          I’m honestly not quite sure, I just know people are getting riled up when it’s mentioned.

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            4 months ago

            It gets people going, (Daniel) 'Mkay?

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

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                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

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      4 months ago

      The open-source one that’s so powerful it summons an online fight with at least 50 members if mentioned. It’s kinda anomalous so it is recommended not to mention it online until further research.