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I want to donate to a linux phone. I believe in linux and I want a linux phone. Maybe we can use one in very few years as a normal daily driver. It's getting closer and closer every month.

I want to donate that we get there sooner. But which project? I'm following postmarket but I'm not sure if they are the most promising. What's your stance on this? To which project would you give your money to accellerate it?

Edit: I don't want to buy a phone. I want to support the phone os devs. Sorry for the bad wording.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

6a is good. The 7 is said to be bad.

[–] dragnet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have a 6a, which I tolerate for GrapheneOS. The battery life is absolutely terrible.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

For me its 2 days when I use it rarely.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

6a, the one with a hackable fingerprint sensor, is good... this is the level of security GrapheneOS people enjoy. Rather have a debloated $50 BLU phone. These people know zilch about security and instead are just interested in inventing gospel to circlejerk their stock Android hobby.

[–] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

These people know zilch about security

Agreed, now your mission is OpenBSD

Let's watch if your shit got cared, you can only attacks small projects with peoples who don't want to write portable code (amd64 and aarch64 only) for "security"

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

you can only attacks small projects

I do not do that. Pretty sure most said in your thread that you write weird stuff, and I also tried talking to you to no avail.

Your OpenBSD fandom sounds like TempleOS meme. Weird. Pass.

[–] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 months ago

I do not do that. Pretty sure most said in your thread that you write weird stuff, and I also tried talking to you to no avail.

You are doing that. You dispose contributions like hardened_malloc. Why don't you spread more misinformation about it? Maybe when hardened_malloc have a bug you will.

You can only laugh on some security bugs of Pixel. You thought "debloat" is enough. This is insufficient. (And using adb to debloat can be considered overkill. Your software recommendation is insane and overkill. Being both insufficient and overkill are the current infamous attitude of current privacy communities, including privacy guides, privsec.dev, grapheneos community and other "degoogled" android communities)

Your OpenBSD fandom sounds like TempleOS meme. Weird. Pass.

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[–] inverted_deflector@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The 6 series was when google introduced the tensor which is where the stereotype for worse battery life, worse performance, and less efficient radio come from.

I have a 6a too and for the price it's fine, and I think a lot of the battery concerns are overblown, and for a budget phone competing with other budget phone devices tensor was great. That said the things that would make the tensor in the 7 bad are as present in if not more so in the 6a.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

I dont know. I had a 7pro and that thing got hot and was like a tablet. I 100% cannot reproduce this on a 6a. Its battery life is better than my 4a and before my Nokia 7plus.