Read this, it is good

https://fsfe.org/activities/android/locked_down.en.html

I never paid anything online using an EC card. Does that even work?

But “Vorkasse” (bank transaction in advance) should be available. And Wero, even though my not-very-shitty bank does not support it

Thx

Cool. Now research what that even means.

(It does not include firmware, baseband firmware i.e. anything running with airplane mode off, likely the kernel)

It was apache originally and bought up by Oracle Sun -> Oracle -> Apache

Lol please add some funding for CDE (Common desktop environment) and Slackware too

But digitalization!!1!!

Including fucking DHL. I hate these companies.

DHL:

DHL and Deutsche Bahn also use Adobe for whatever they use it for. The ARD Mediathek uses Google for the account system, which is incredibly ironic (and the reason why I dont have an account)

You mostly rely on vendor kernels, that is the point. The operating system would have updated it for you if it was actually still maintained.

Good operating systems will tell you that this OS is not secure anymore (if it ever was). But many that people use dont say anything while maybe even still shipping updates, so people think it is fine.

Yeah haha I tried finding one but no success.

I know they delayed the Android 14 upgrade and skipped directly to 15, even “bricking” some devices. Probably nothing very bad (though as they allow bootloader locking even on custom Android builds… it could really mean brick).

https://endoflife.date/linux

Very longterm, support ended over 1 year ago. That kernel is 7 years old…

Android is very conservative with kernel upgrades, but this is insane.

Can you check how old your kernel is?

uname -r

Fairphone absolutely is important and may have driven the long update span of phones. But note that because they were the first, they didnt use a secure smartphone SOC in their phone but an IOT one, lacking any secure element for example. Cracking that phone is not hard for people with the knowledge.

Also their firmware and software updates are often far behind upstream, which has obvious security implications.

That is a vast oversimplifications. Custom Android builds either rely on reverse engineered drivers, or vendor kernels, or mostly undocumented drivers and custom kernel patches.

Custom “ROMs” are often very insecure, as they use the outdated stock vendor kernel of the original OS, as it is so customized. Not always, but often.

Then you have firmware, which is responsible for a ton of tasks on Android phones, way more importantly than on a PC. There is an entire separate, proprietary chip in there, connecting to sensible and insecure networks like 2G and 3G (the modem/baseband).

I found this article to explain the situation well

Uhm your phone is EOL since a very long time. I hope you never turn off airplane mode

It does for me

https://fcast.org/

https://github.com/futo-org/fcast

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41376215

They will have hardware compatible with the protocol/software listed somewhere.

Look, the internet!

FUTO does some things

Ich war auf der FOSDEM und in Brüssel ist es einfach 18 Grad wärmer, absolut krass

Ist das schon der versiegende Golfstrom??

Yes but this ignores open source which is most of the time just good, and doesnt need to be forced to it through regulation

Xmpp or matrix are good Messaging protocols, and both are international projects.