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How is this any better than just buying a brand name android phone and putting calyxOS or some custom ROM like lineage on it?
by CountDrewku 5y ago
How is this any better than just buying a brand name android phone and putting calyxOS or some custom ROM like lineage on it?
- heavyhephaistos 5y agoThey do the work for you. You could just buy a Pixel 6 and throw GrapheneOS on it, but this is not financially viable if you count the hours needed, especially if you want to recommend a secure phone to non technical friends and not configure it for them.
- CountDrewku 5y agoFor 899 Euro? Unless you have money to blow that's financially stupid. Buy a pixel and pay someone with tech experience to configure it for you. I can't imagine anyone without tech skills wanting a phone like this anyway.
- strcat 5y agohttps://grapheneos.org/install/web https://grapheneos.org/install/web is easy to use and GrapheneOS has broad app compatibility these days via sandboxed Play services (https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-play-services https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-play-services). We're working on making the out-of-the-box experience nicer via a first party app repository and client which can be used to bootstrap installing other app stores too. There are over 6400 users in the GrapheneOS Matrix room with many experienced people always around at any time of day that are willing to spend lots of time helping new users.
- jet_32951 5y agoI use Grapheneos. The Matrix room #grapheneos:grapheneos.org is everything strcat says it is: yet get used to OpenBSD or Arch levels of "RTFM" as responses to queries. To be fair the docs at grapheneos.org are fair (nothing like OpenBSD's), but without a good grounding in infosec terms of art, they will be between strange and unintelligible. Backscroll search is vital.