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LineageOS probably isn’t a great example. It uses black box firmware blobs that don’t receive updates and essentially just makes the latest Android work with th
by highwaylights 3y ago
LineageOS probably isn’t a great example. It uses black box firmware blobs that don’t receive updates and essentially just makes the latest Android work with those.
It’s certainly better than just running an old Android on an unsupported device, but there are still large parts of the system that can be subject to critical vulnerabilities that can never be patched.
- toastal 3y agoCompared to many alternatives, it is better. The devices with longer support don’t have the basic features I need like a headphone jack & too many thing require a mobile device to function anymore, like Signal which doesn’t work without an Android/iOS primary device.
- fsflover 3y agoMy Librem 5 with a lifetime support has all that. Signal can run with Waydroid.
- toastal 3y agoBy coincidence I had to get an old device running last night because current device is broken. I was able to flash 2023-09-05 Android security updates atop a 2014 phone whose last firmware update was 2016-09-01. Is the device not safe? To some extent yes, but I was able to keep an old emergency device running with security patches from last month which is better than having to buy a new temporary device or being stuck on the matching official 2016 ROM.