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You can update your phone with custom ROMs, but it won't update the closed source components of it(device drivers, bootloader, etc...). If a vulnerability is found in one of those components, it's unlikely that it will get parched

I guess he means that raspberry pi doesn't run a mainline kernel

Am I naïve for thinking that manufacturers stopping support for devices, then claiming it affects your safety, is just to sell more phones?

Yes you are.

Vulnerabilities are constantly being found in the software stack used by Android, if you are running vulnerable software you're increasing the likelihood of some malicious app (or website, file, etc...) taking advantage of the vulnerability. The consequences of vulnerability vary from being able to fingerprint your device when it's not supposed, to escalateling privileges to root or even kernel mode. Although the later are significantly rarer.

and had zero security issues in a dozen years

That you know of... If the vulnerability is successfully exploited, the likelihood of you noticing are close to zero.

You could always flash a custom ROM to install the latest security patches, but you would still be missing the security updates for all the closed source components (such as the bootloader, device drivers, etc...). Not to mention all the security implications (good or bad) that comes with installing custom ROMs.

Not for me and my friend on our own instance, 0.17.4 used to return me to where the feed previously was. In 0.18.0 when I get back from the post, it causes a full refresh of the home page/feed

I think those kind of vulnerabilities are pretty rare, though.

Not really... If you go read the security bulletin from google, you will see every month that there are a couple of issues fixed on closed source components https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2023-07-01

Also vulnerabilities related to kernel code, I highly doubt most ROM "developers" are actually backporting security fixes for that specific device's kernel branch/source.

The latest pixel devices (since 6 I think?) already provide accees to a /dev/kvm device, so maybe you could even run a normal Ubuntu server VM on your phone for hosting these services.

I ran GrapheneOS on a pixel 5 but ultimately went back to stock.

GrapheneOS was considerably slower on my phone. Apps took a bit longer to loader, but the worst was installing APKs, it takes so much longer compared to stock. Some apps (e.g. revolut) took more than 5 minutes to install, it was crazy.

In Europe I would say debit cards are way more common than credit cards. It's very rare to see someone paying with a credit card.

Made my own for myself and some friends. We couldn't be bothered creating account on the larger instances and have power tripping admins de-federating instances over trivial issues.

I’d know if someone had any access to my phone

This is really a bold claim. How or why makes you so sure of that?

If the attacker/app manages to get some application running in the background as root, how would you know that they had access to your phone?

GrapheneOS uses exec spawning by default, but it’s pretty trivial to disable and it does speed things up (at a slight cost to security).

Even with that option disabled the slow down was significant enough. Maybe the mid-range chip used in the Pixel 5 wasn't helping, but still... Overall the phone felt significantly quicker when switching back to stock.

I think using AOT rather than JIT compiling might be the cause of the slow installs, but I’m not sure (and I’ve not really noticed a problem myself).

That's it, I remember reading in their forums one of the mods(or devs?) mentioning this.

I think bitwarden fills all of your requirements.

If you use over@lemmy.dbzer0.com to link a user, lemmy will instead create a link for the instance you are currently using.

The code is still accessible, you just can't use the code search function in the web, which normal git doesn't have anyway.

Are you sure the content is gone? I assume the communities had users from other servers, if so isn't the content replicated on other servers?

Wouldn't unlocking the bootloader and installing a custom ROM be easier, more stable and cheaper than buying a niche product that's unlikely to work properly?

It's probably something to do with the tablet interface. It works fine on my S23, but immediately crashes on my Xiaomi pad 4

My only requirements were:

• released within the last year
• high refresh rate screen
• relatively small (similar in size to my pixel 5)

That meant there were only two phones I could buy, the galaxy S23 and the iPhone 14 Pro. I ended up buying the S23 because it was half the price, and I was "afraid" I wouldn't like iOS.

So far the S23 has been a great update compared to the pixel 5, with the exception of the cameras which were a clear downgrade imo.

1000/400 mbps down/up for 40€ /month. Portugal

I think the admin of c/selfhosted is the admin of Lemmy.world

What exactly are you looking for? Android IS Linux, do you want to try a different "distribution" just for fun?