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Unfortunately these tiny side projects are not the answer. They'll never get traction because they're not better devices. The answer is to either hack Android/
by sub7 6y ago
Unfortunately these tiny side projects are not the answer. They'll never get traction because they're not better devices.
The answer is to either hack Android/iOS so you can patch out all the bundled bs or to regulate them and force them to offer a "clean" OS version.
- coronadisaster 6y ago"luckily", that is not the truth
- mondoshawan 6y agoI think this is the third time I've seen this kind of comment on HN about this. Seems like an uptick, but these aren't side projects.
- ta17711771 6y agoThis is why, after years of pining over Librem phone and similar, and learning a lot about security along the way, I've settled on GrapheneOS.
- AsyncAwait 6y agoUnfortunately, by doing so you'll always rely on proprietary hardware blobs and hostile vendors who will make it harder to patch whatever you want to patch with each release in the name of "security" and will never offer anything close to an actual GNU/Linux experience on a phone. I also don't see how a process that requires rooting, patching etc, is any more prone to mainstream adoption than an actual Linux phone. The thing is, if one wants to move a cause somewhere, it may require some inconveniencing at the start for the long-term vision to pan out. Working with GCC was surely a bit painful at the start of the 90s, but it was worth it for the goal of having a free software stack on the desktop and now it's time to do the same for the phone.