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[โ€“] NGram@piefed.ca 28 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

GrapheneOS has some very strict requirements which basically means they will refuse to support anything except Pixel phones. Fairphone isn't in the business of making their own (security) chips so I doubt the Graphene team will ever consider them.

CalyxOS, arguably the next best thing, did have support for earlier Fairphones but that project is sort of in limbo now.

[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 28 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

The Graphene team has also been very outspoken about how much they dislike Fairphone for this very reason.

I use /e/OS on my Fairphone 5. It's not a Graphene alternative as it's not a hardened OS, it's just Android without Google. Good enough for me, I'm not afraid of secret agents stealing my phone to extract data or whatever, I just don't want American big tech anywhere near my phone.

[โ€“] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

to be fair I don't think they like anything besides Google Pixel.

[โ€“] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Same. Like, I can tolerate hackers more than big tech. What is the deal with the security chips? I don't want some shitty fuse or anything in my phone.

[โ€“] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, I ran Calyx for a while - it was... not a great user experience. If I am forced to change at some point, I'll reconsider it. That said, Graphene's trying to move off of the Pixel platform. I just haven't looked to see if there are any updates since that piece of info reached me.