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1. Peter Kotrčka (peterk@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 07:19:20 UTC Peter Kotrčka

   • Benoit
   • Bernie
   • janči

   @janci maybe a little bit more expensive, but a completely different approach, having such a repairable, sustainable device.

   @benoit @codewiz

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 07:17:46 UTC Bernie

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     • janči

     @peterk @janci @benoit The Fairphone 4 has a Snapdragon 750G, released in 2020.

     I was going to comment that this device is likely stuck with an old LTS kernel that won't be supported by Android 5 years from now, but then I found that Fairphone has been doing heroic work to mainline kernel support for their hardware:
     https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fairphone-4-Linux-Patches

     Kudos! 👍

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 07:32:04 UTC Bernie

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     • janči

     @peterk @janci @benoit But are Fairphones being updated to Android 13 anytime soon? The website still talks about Android 11, which is a bit worrying...

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 07:40:05 UTC Bernie

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     • janči

     I also can't find any public development site aside for this out-of-date thing:
     https://code.fairphone.com/projects/fairphone-4/kernel.html

     LineageOS has Android 12 support for the FP2 and FP3, but not the FP4:
     https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#fairphone

     This isn't looking too good...

     @peterk @janci @benoit

   • Benoit (benoit@toots.benpro.fr)'s status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 08:11:32 UTC Benoit

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     @codewiz @peterk @janci in the meantime I received September security update before stock. I mean at this point, if you care about security and privacy, there is no other choice than #GrapheneOS.

     Others are not really taking security seriously.

     https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/1567257488751214594#m