drengbarazi

@drengbarazi@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best indie games you've ever played?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hämis 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This should be fun⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is your favorite color?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay wutelgi, have a good day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if you use a relatively new device. Or you make sure your device is encrypted.

  Big chunk of old android phones (pre 2016) came unencrypted by default. They could be encrypted if the user wished/knew how.

  I remember having a motorola (moto g4 I think) that after flashing twrp it didn’t ever asked for my pin. It was officially supported by LineageOS for a long time too. Still, damn fine phone lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you might cover some vulnerabilities that were discovered after the manufacturer stopped updating your device, which is nice. But only time will tell what new vulnerabilies will be uncovered next; but be sure, they will.

  Only a frequently updated device will have constant state-of-the-art vulnerability protection. That is, until the maintaner (someone with the know-how to make stable lineage-os builds and mess with the device’s vendor tree doing all this work for free) decides to stop updating that device. Which sounds bad but that doesn’t stop another maintainer from rising up to the task eventually.

  Anyhow, with lineage and, generally, any custom OS aimed at phones that can’t relock their bootloader safely you’ll always lose device integrity (can be circumvented with things like magisk) and very likely IMS features (VoLTE and the like).

  Another thing to consider is if your device ends up in the hands of a malicious party. If its bootloader is unlocked, you can be sure they’ll have easy access to any personal data inside it.

  If you wanna be safe for a looong time I’d consider a pixel phone from this list and flashing grapheneos and then relocking the bootloader.

  In any case, good luck and all the best to you! :)

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  Sidenote: if you are on a Linux system and do intend to flash a custom recovery (necessary step before flashing a custom OS) on a samsung phone, take a look at the Heimdall tool. It’s an open source alternative to Odin that runs natively on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like Samsung Galaxy S9 is [still receiving updates}(wiki.lineageos.org/devices/starlte/). Last build (nightly) was like today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it doesn’t matter what you use when the operating system already comes with a built-in keylogger enabled by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys might really kill passwords⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this is the way

  you can even tweak folders to either send or receive only on some devices

  plus if you really want to be safe you can set file versioning and ignore deletes on a folder to make it strictly backup on more than one device

  no internet connection required, you can set it all on lan

  I think it is my favorite open-source project after Torvalds’ creations