Heavily torn on whether to buy a Fairphone with debloated Android or Pixel with GrapheneOS

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@Ignacio

Do not consider FP6 if you want to remove the battery often as it requires a screwdriver to remove it.

I’m considering more 4 or 5. That is annoying for the 6 tho.

@janweiss

I think it depends a little how serious you are about security and privacy.

I’m more your average joe, but I don’t really like it when my location is broadcasted to telephone towers and location tracking, which I heard Graphene you can control the permissions so that should reduce that significantly.

@janweiss

you will probably hear a lot of hate about Fairphone and especially about /e/ at the Graphene forum

Yea I’ve been told “OH BUT E OS HAS 2 MUCH HECKIN’ TRACKIN’ STUFF! (insert soyjak face here)” and that the fairphone is ‘subpar’ on the privacy guides. Seems really biased towards pixel, and they kept trying to argue against repairability as something that doesn’t matter (considering I don’t use the phone often). Interesting.

@janweiss

Try to listen to the calm voices there

Yea I’ll do that. People seem to really want to convince me to use Graphene, which feels a little biased imo. But I’ll consider their arguments.