In hindsight, I should’ve added a few more…
Repairability/sustainability: Easy to repair, sustainably produced.
Ethics: Anti-Big Tech (no Apple, no Samsung etc.), good workers’ rights and supply chain. Preferably European.
Privacy: Speaks for itself. Privacy or anonymity, measures that foster it rather than feed data to others.
I feel like Fairphone would hit the Repairability and likely also Ethics (since it’s a certified B corporation), but for Privacy, it’d be a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS… but it’s Google, and given the CLOUD Act…
Maybe I could add accessibility there too, interface customisation (I like the iOS interface ways, but still, it’s Apple), but that’s a separate category.
the best option unfortunately is Google Pixel with GrapheneOS
Buying your hardware from evil even if running graphene on it is not suitable to ops request.
Second hand market is great for not putting more money in google’s pocket :)
Exactly what I did. 180€ for a second hand 7a and it works as it should
Or support the non-evil companies.
Really hard to find, but yes I agree this is a good option too
Google Pixel literally has Google in the name
But how do we know there’s no backdoor fuckery?
In GrapheneOS?
We don’t. We just have to trust. But that’s the same for everything.
No, in the Google Pixel itself.
GrapheneOS is FOSS though? We don’t have to trust. If you want to, you can look at the source code yourself
Yes, but will you? In reality it takes trust for most. Personally, I don’t think I could tell a sophisticated back door [pervy emoji] from a hello world! script.
[me looking at the source code] Interesting… they used words here and a few numbers too. 🔍🤔
I won’t, but the code being open makes it easy for third parties to inspect. So I suppose I’d be trusting that other people who are savvier and more paranoid than me have taken a look and made sure it’s safe.
Yeah, I mean I feel pretty confident trusting stuff like Graphene that’s 1) open source, 2) popular 3) among techy people that 4) are obsessed about privacy and security
Never reccomend that again please.