Interesting article from a generalist magazine. According to it:

  • Best Preinstalled Phone: Fairphone 6 With /e/OS
  • Best for Pixel Phones: GrapheneOS
  • Best for Non-Pixel Phones: /e/OS
  • For the DIY Tinkerer: LineageOS
  • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website
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    3 days ago

    This post’s headline (not Wired’s) is a tad misleading. Even the Android without Google Services still comes from Google originally.

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        3 days ago

        You haven’t yet heard of the baseband modem thing? There is some debate about whether the baseband hardware has phone-home functionality on most major brands.

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          I thought the debate is about the baseband software having ancient unfixed vulnerabilities that can give wide access to the phone for network operator systems