It is easier to break something than to reverse engineer drivers and firmware and maintain yourself XD

Also, firmware updates need to be signed so it is impossible to update, unless there is a really bad vulnerability

And you can buy phones used, my most expensive one was under 400€

Dont buy anything older than an 8 currently. Think about support lifespan, the Pixel 6 will be EOL in one month!

https://endoflife.date/pixel

https://resist.berlin/pixel-preise

Well, their requirements increased since Pixels got arm memory tagging in the 8 generation. The 11 would be more secure than a 7 for example but they are still uncertain about supporting them, because it is a clear security downgrade

Douch-e-bag

I understood this like porting Android to some other chip? But yeah no idea what that means

True. For this specific case dont expect low used prices.

Experts take care and dont sell their devices.

Dumb people buy the new phone and then sell it because they switched to an iPhone or something… dumb. That is why there are so many low-spec Pixels on the used market. Try finding a 500gb Pixel pro used!

Same will be the case with used top tier Motorola phones. Lower userbase and those people are less likely to sell them.

A Pixel 9/10 is kinda premium but the normal one. The a is the lower tier but also runs GrapheneOS. But the a is not the generally advertized model for cheaper, it is released separately and has obvious downsides because you always have a direct comparison. It is simply way less likely for people to buy “the regular Pixel” (which is kinda premium) than for people to buy the top tier Motorola

Yeah and they are insecure and probably have very short and incomplete software updates

Phones are sadly not general purpose computers

Tbh I wouldnt call a Pixel 10 camera “just fine”, it is pretty damn impressive

It is an Android problem but with GrapheneOS specifically simply being supported is not enough for the devs.

Funny how ugly his case is, he could just have gotten one custom made with a camera protection slider

Also people always forget microphones and sensors

Yeah XD so it should be Clam-GTK-rs or something lol

https://www.inventati.org/

185.218.207.228 currently

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LOL their new domain is https://www.inventati.org/

Also .org

Also Tk stands for the crazy old GUI toolkit used

Does the rust rewrite also use Tk???

First only their flagship models. Economy of scale, it is likely that other models might adopt the same chips.

Though as we see from Pixels you can still buy top tier chips without MTE, or with shorter firmware updates. The EU mandates 5 years afaik but that is less than the 7 or so that Pixels have.

I am happy I got a Pixel 10, even though it still has bugs due to missing drivers and configurations I suppose.

It is likely that Motorola will still not produce secure enough lower end phones in the future.

There is a microG compatibility table, it is only a limited subset but by far less invasive than google play services

To be honest they also kinda suck for not promoting coreboot at all.

They gave some coreboot devs a few laptops, didnt like the result and gave up. Meanwhile people are still working on that in their free time, apparently it isnt even that complicated and kinda just works?

I would generally not recommend running official google apps at all. MicroG works quite well for the things you actually need. I would research on how to flash microG with adb and add the correct elevated privileges.

Or if you need to flash gapps, use this file to only flash the needed apps like playstore and play services and nothing else.

Then afaik you can still disable them on the main profile and only use them in work profile (shelter, island), which would be a big privacy advantage

uBlue also has other variants like Aurora or Bluefin