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So fair ๐
I don't really blame fairphone for this. They would probably have to make their own chips, if they wanted control over that. Almost nobody has money for that.
Naa that's not something with "snapdragon cpu and location services" it's something with snapdragon + the OS allowing it and most likely profiting from it. Fairphone guys have been petitioned multiples times to open their platform and/or collaborate with projects such as GrapheneOS and CalyxOS so user can have private and secure phones but they don't care.
CalyxOS does support the Fairphone 4 however that's only due to the persistence and reverse engineering efforts of the CalyxOS project / community. If you decide to use it you won't have a secure bootloader anymore due to a bug in Fairphone's firmware that they choose not to fix. That's how "fair" the "Fairphone" really is.
Here is more relevant information for you from here:
Before you say this is the CPU's fault, it isn't, at least on its own. GrapheneOS also deals with this kind of stuff and has patches and options so you can block it.
After looking into it more, I don't think I would use Graphene OS even if it was supported on FP4, main dev seems like a lying man baby.
On the other hand, I didn't know Calyx OS has support for FP4, I might try it out.
I don't really remember strcat "lying", yet there are some evidence of him being... Let's say unstable. GrapheneOS, tho, is another story as it's trying to improve the android's privacy/security model instead of simply not making things worse. For example, they are behind hardened malloc - for security, and have storage & contact scopes (i.e. letting the user choose which files/directories exactly an app can access) - for privacy. While the former feature has been adopted by a few other roms and even desktop Linux distributions, the latter I've seen only on graphene so far, which is quite a shame. Same goes for sandboxing play services
Why so much hate towards GrapheneOS? The thing is carefully planned and executed. About Calyx... just don't forget that you won't get a secure boot... anyone who gets you phone can temper with your boot.
I don't hate GrapheneOS, it is probably fine. I just don't think I would feel comfortable running an OS on my phone when its main dev acts like this. That's just me and completely subjective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
Yes I'm aware of his bad soft skills... either way he does good work and he's capable of working on small details while still seeing the bigger picture - this makes him able to spot and fix stuff others would miss easily. Example that stuff you've reported.
Wasn't that the guy who stepped down from development entirely because of the backlash? Louis himself is still using it afaik
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
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Thanks, that was interesting and eye opening read. Do you know if he is still working on graphene os or is he out? Because some users mentioned that he left.
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