• baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    This is for security concerns, because all the firmware and driver are maintained by first party, so once the first party stopped maintaining firmware, there is no way for graphene to make the device as secure as a phone that is still in its support period.

    At that point, you can try to switch to lineage to increase the life of your device.

    That being said, graphene do offer extended support for some devices like pixel 4(XL) is still supported right now, but it made it very clear that it is “extended support”, so it cannot get any firmware update that is not provided by first party.

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      At that point, you can try to switch to lineage to increase the life of your device.

      Which basically brings me to my question, how is LineageOS for should I call it basic privacy.

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        It is okay for privacy, especially if you dont have google app installed, but it is not security and privacy focused. If you have google app installed I imagine it is probably as private as stock os on a pixel, and less secure.

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        It’s good for general computing, and if it’s off the internet it’s good for anything. But if it’s networked don’t trust it with things you’re not comfortable being at higher risk.

        So watch YouTube fine, banking maybe not

        The context here is a phone that’s no longer receiving hardware security updates, not lineage OS itself. If you put lineage on a modern phone getting updates, then I’d be comfortable using it as a standard phone doing all the standard things including online banking