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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        4 months ago

        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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              4 months 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

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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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            4 months ago

            Hence the controversy! 🙂

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