People are leaving Google Pixel and I finally understand why
www.howtogeek.com
It’s not us, Google. It’s you.

I still love my Pixel 6 and I am thinking of grabbing a used Pixel 8 to run GrapheneOS.

I am not one to chase the latest benchmarks. Any phone made in the past five years or so is perfectly capable once you take the bloat out.

  • EastofEdson@piefed.caOPEnglish
    111·
    4 hours ago

    I don’t trust really Google anymore but I think GrapheneOS without Google services should take care of any risk.

    If GrapheneOS was available for other devices I might switch but that is not the case. Maybe this Motorola deal will produce something but that’s still a ways out if it ever happens.

    • unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      8 minutes ago

      I’m running LineageOS on a One+ and it’s really good. I get close to 4-5 day usage with regular use just because ask the bullshit isn’t running in the background from Screwgle

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      I’m on GrapheneOS too, but I think hardware backdoors are a genuine concern. There’s not much an OS can do to fight a hardware backdoor. So I don’t entirely trust it but it’s better than not trying for privacy. In any case, the risk of hardware backdoors is present on pretty much every device we compute on. There’s not a lot of fully open hardware out there, especially for phones.