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Flashing a third party ROM is probably your best bet. I'm curious to what phones you're considering to replace your OP3 with, though. For myself, I've been lo

by tuxxy 9y ago

Flashing a third party ROM is probably your best bet. I'm curious to what phones you're considering to replace your OP3 with, though. For myself, I've been looking for something that has "much better than average" security and, unfortunately for any mobile platform, that looks like it's probably not going to happen. The closest ROM I've found is CopperheadOS, but it is only supported on a few devices.

apocalyptic0n3 9y ago
I'm probably just going to flash Lineage. I have plenty of past experience with CM so it should be fairly familiar and it apparently works extremely well on the OnePlus 3 (I've seen the OP3 labeled the perfect phone for Lineage in the past, so hopefully that is true) In terms of phones, I don't know. The Pixel 2 XL, Galaxy S8, Note 8, and LG V30 are probably the best Android devices available right now. I haven't done much research so I don't have much of an opinion right now. I'm feeling fairly jaded right now and half-considering switching to an iPhone and away from a lot of Google services because Apple seems to at least half-care about privacy. I know in the end that is likely BS but what can you do at this point short of go back to a dumb phone (which you really can't do if you are an app dev trying to stay on top of current trends)?
- pdimitar 9y ago
  > I'm feeling fairly jaded right now and half-considering switching to an iPhone and away from a lot of Google services because Apple seems to at least half-care about privacy. Exactly my stance. I am sure Apple is shady as well but it's my opinion (partially supported by numerous stories here on HN) that Google collects and sells anything they can get their hands on. I'm buying iPhone X for me and my girlfriend (when it finally comes out). We already have iPad Pros. We'll just go full Apple except the gaming PCs. We will change all passwords from inside one of the iDevices as an additional security measure. Most likely gonna use YubiKey 4 as well -- although I am still not informed enough to make the decision. Already using DuckDuckGo 95% of the time -- sadly it is not as good as Google but really, most of the time it gives me what I need. Still not sure Firefox is up to the task to replace Chrome, but I'm keeping an eye out and using the beta (Quantum). End-game is gonna be to replace Gmail with something else. I feel I can't trust Google with telling me the time these days so I am migrating away from them.

by tuxxy 9y ago

apocalyptic0n3 9y ago

I'm probably just going to flash Lineage. I have plenty of past experience with CM so it should be fairly familiar and it apparently works extremely well on the OnePlus 3 (I've seen the OP3 labeled the perfect phone for Lineage in the past, so hopefully that is true) In terms of phones, I don't know. The Pixel 2 XL, Galaxy S8, Note 8, and LG V30 are probably the best Android devices available right now. I haven't done much research so I don't have much of an opinion right now. I'm feeling fairly jaded right now and half-considering switching to an iPhone and away from a lot of Google services because Apple seems to at least half-care about privacy. I know in the end that is likely BS but what can you do at this point short of go back to a dumb phone (which you really can't do if you are an app dev trying to stay on top of current trends)?

pdimitar 9y ago
> I'm feeling fairly jaded right now and half-considering switching to an iPhone and away from a lot of Google services because Apple seems to at least half-care about privacy. Exactly my stance. I am sure Apple is shady as well but it's my opinion (partially supported by numerous stories here on HN) that Google collects and sells anything they can get their hands on. I'm buying iPhone X for me and my girlfriend (when it finally comes out). We already have iPad Pros. We'll just go full Apple except the gaming PCs. We will change all passwords from inside one of the iDevices as an additional security measure. Most likely gonna use YubiKey 4 as well -- although I am still not informed enough to make the decision. Already using DuckDuckGo 95% of the time -- sadly it is not as good as Google but really, most of the time it gives me what I need. Still not sure Firefox is up to the task to replace Chrome, but I'm keeping an eye out and using the beta (Quantum). End-game is gonna be to replace Gmail with something else. I feel I can't trust Google with telling me the time these days so I am migrating away from them.