Comment by jokethrowaway
7 days ago
I really don't want to give Google money so the Pixel is off for me until GrapheneOS supports something else.
For now I consider smartphones as disposable toys that can't be trusted with anything sensitive and use a computer for privacy.
I also don't like the idea of running Android, I still hope for a real linux phone at some point.
Phones, to just give one example, at least have fine-grained run-time permission controls while on Linux apps can just access anything the user can, except if you use something like Flatpak which gives you sandboxing but the quality of that sandboxing is still worse than Android 4.4 KitKat. How can you protect your sensitive info without such permission controls that gate access to your personal data?
Note that this is just one example, there are also other problems with traditional desktop OSes and a large portion of desktop hardware.
You could buy a used Pixel.
Also, they are working with a partner to get their own phone hardware, hopefully by next year.