Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

• toddestan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Interesting. I’ve not heard of FuriOS, but if it actually can be used with US carriers, makes calls and supports SMS/MMS, and can do VoLTE that’s a actually a pretty big deal.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not bad, it looks like I have to buy their phone though. Which is not cheap, or performant guessing by the specs despite what the advertising says.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I saw someone else recommending it. I only hope they take this opportunity to release the OS for everyone, but since they’re for-profit, I doubt they will.

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• tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Whenever you see a linux phone advertise both security and android app support, you should be wary, since it’s likely waydroid or a waydroid fork, and their design goal of running android in a container instead of a VM has lead to some interesting security decisions.

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  • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would be very happy if anyone could explain to me in a simple and coherent way why I, as a normal user who am aware of what I am doing on my device and am not targeted by any group that's out to get me, would need a "hardened malloc", "secure app spawning", "vanadium browser and webview", or a "hardened PDF viewer". The last of these four is the only thing that means anything to me, and it sounds dumb. Yeah, I know PDFs can be dangerous if you open random shit, but come on.

    If I run Waydroid it's only to get my banking app (trusted source) and Whatsapp (not a trusted source but not directly malware either) working. I hardly need their hardened PDF reader.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Still using Android 11? Holy hell.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You realize how many things have gotten shittier since android 11? Accubattery isn’t even allowed to monitor everything using up juice any more. You can’t customize your own charging curves, you’re locked out of accessing portions of your storage on your own phone, and a lot of great power user apks had to completely hit themselves or just stop working all together.

      What do you need from after 11 that an apk wouldn’t have allowed you to do already?

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