GrapheneOS (@grapheneos.org)
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Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. Duval and his organizations have consistently taken a stance against protecting users from exploits. In this video, he once again claims protecting against exploits is for only useful pedophiles and spies.

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However, we don’t have a “hardened security” approach, we aren’t developing a phone for pedo(censored) so they can evade justice.

  • Anaeijon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    61·
    16 hours ago

    I’m running e/OS in my old Poco F3 right now.

    I switched from LineageOS because I though, e/OS would be easier to ungoogle.

    In the end, it just defaults to way more compromises than I would have made on LineageOS.

    Over all, it’s actually just LineageOS with MicroG preinstalled, a really bad launcher, an ugly 2015-ish iPhone icon theme, and a few mediocre apps preinstalled, that use these ‘Murena’ services that claim to be an alternative to Google services, but they are neither more secure/foss nor reliable.

    Their appstore is rather Bad. Yes, it essentially combines something like APKMirror and F-Droid in one app, but it requests a Google account to access PlayStore Apps.

    Imho, LineageOS with MicroG, no GApps, F-Droid and APKMirror and a few foss apps is the better solution.

    I have my sync services selfhosted through a NAS and simply use WebDAV (backups), CardDAV and CalDAV. This was harder to set up in e/OS than in basic LineageOS, because e/OS is trying to push their own Murena services for that. And if I didn’t have all of these selfhosted, I’d rather use Proton services instead of Murena.

    Over all, really sketchy. It’s like a custom Rom that claims privacy but actually just wants you to möge to their own service.

    • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      This was pretty much my impression of /e/ as well. Used it only briefly. It ran poorly, had a bunch of crap I didn’t want. Bad launcher. Things didn’t work properly.

      Overall impression I got was that the people who make /e/ do not know what they are doing.

      While the GrapheneOS dev comes across as sus and toxic to me, part of me would like to give it a try. But between Pixel phones still having black screen of death problems, and newer ones lacking a headphone jack - I found a Moto G100 plus LineageOS with MicroG is a great option.

      I only run open software on it, and keep everything proprietary on my old un-degooglable phone that only gets turned on when necessary.