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The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. (shop.fairphone.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

If these two issues are what prompts you to call a "security dumpster fire", I would say we at least have very different risk perceptions.

We do. I can't in good conscience recommend it as an alternative to friends or relatives when even stock Android has improved security. I can't speak for your social circle, but all the people I know update their phones accordingly. Maybe they delay the update for a few days, but they don't stay months with their phones like that. Fairphones improve the situation a bit since you can lock the bootloader, but the substantial delay in security updates is still a major risk.

I don't get why anyone would choose /e/OS over Graphene if they had the option. Graphene offers the highest security and privacy, it works wonderful and most banking apps support it. /e/OS just has the advantage of supporting more models, but if you can get a Pixel what's the point?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I definitely wait more than a week to update for example. The marginal security risk is completely irrelevant for me compared to the operational risk of a buggy update. N-1 is a common practice for updating software in fact, unless there is absolutely a great reason to upgrade.

Also, I want to be in your circle, because most people I know if the phone doesn't update automatically they probably won't even think of updating their phone (or their computer) at all.

For me the reason is simple, I don't care about the advanced threats that would be mitigated by GrapheneOS enough to buy a pixel and migrate. I already own a FP3 and that's what I am going to use until it breaks.

I might consider Graphene in the future, but having to buy a Google phone (even a used one) already pisses me off, compared to a FP (or similar). eOS also tries to be a "noob-friendly" distribution, that you can buy phones with and you never have to mess with the phones, which means people who don't have the skills or don't want to mess with their phones might trade the risk with ease of operation, and it might be the right choice for them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I already own a FP3 and that's what I am going to use until it breaks.

That's fair. I can get behind that.

I might consider Graphene in the future, but having to buy a Google phone (even a used one) already pisses me off, compared to a FP (or similar).

You're not the only one. I loathed that I had to go back to Google to switch to Graphene, but life's a compromise most of the time.

eOS also tries to be a "noob-friendly" distribution, that you can buy phones with and you never have to mess with the phones, which means people who don't have the skills or don't want to mess with their phones might trade the risk with ease of operation, and it might be the right choice for them.

Graphene does that well too. I've been using it for a few weeks now and I never had to look up guides like I'm doing for Linux.