Looking at options to degoogle etc., and these look like two valid options. I mainly use a phone for maps and authenticator, and the occasional text or call.
Also, any other good options or considerations I am missing?
2 completely different propositions :
- gOS is all about security - do you live in a Surveillance State? (The answer today is most probably yes)
- e/OS is all about🖕google - do you think google is a nefarious entity part of today’s world problems? (I think absolutely yes)
So your choice isn’t one because it’s apples and oranges. I can’t go for gOS because they don’t care about google, and it means I’d be waving around a pixel, I’d be a mobile billboard for google - and also if “someone” wants to get into my phone, they will anyway. A fairphone is another statement entirely, and with an alternate OS from a small French business it’s the most political choice I can make. Also, fuck google.
[edit] e/OS is built on LineageOS which runs on many many phones.
Fairphone 6 with E/os has been good to me. It might not be perfect, but anything that’s 🖕 Google is better than all the surveillance before. Any competition at this point is a win.
👊 With you here now, F6 and /e/OS 👊
I’d sooner use Lineage than /e/
/e/ is another walled garden. Not as high-walled as Apple, but they want to be your everything.
Why do you say that?I thought they made the basic system only modifiable with hacks just because they probably can’t afford to respond to all the tickets otherwise. People delete things and subsequently have trouble with aime if those packages. The only thing that bothered me was Magic Earth due to closed code and that they don’t allow easy deletion. I’ll probably just replace it with CoMaps but I rarely use maps so…
Used Pixels with Graphene will be your cheapest option. The concept of Fairphone is awesome, but for Americans they’re pretty expensive. Morally the Fairphone is the better option from a hardware standpoint.
I bought a new Samsung 25 Ultra and it lasted a few days before the screen went black after dropping it one time on carpet. Spent around $300 gettimg the new screen fixed on a new $1200-$1400 phone. Damn thing fell a few feet off a table and went black again.
I’d say Fairphone 6 is well worth the money. Especially with a modular and easily repairable design.
