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by darkwater 399 days ago
Waiting for the nitpicker crowd "you can install AOSP and/or sideload APKs easily, so there is no incumbent abuse here!", just like we had them for IE (you can install another browser) and iPhone (you can buy another brand).

Edit: oh we already have them in the other submission
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raverbashing 399 days ago
Yeah it's the "less space than a Nomad" people

I know, I used to be one of those

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geff82 399 days ago
Just use e/os ! ;)
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subscribed 399 days ago
Maybe something else instead. e/os famously leaves the bootloader gaping open after the installation (looks like relocking is only supported on Fairphones), is very late to release anything (their most recent ROM is still based on AOSP 14!), inc.securty updates.

Doesn't sound like a serious project.

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em-bee 399 days ago
what else?

i'd rather have secure, stable and slow. i don't know about locking the bootloader (do you have a reference to that? i'd like to read up on it). but i don't care that their rom is always the most recent one.

what matters is that e/OS is the only rom i am aware of that combines usability with security. graphene OS doesn't count because it is only available on pixel phones and therefore very limited in applicability. others i don't know.

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