Because you make it that. Its political for you but for me, no.

I’ve always got help, and the moderators are really nice.

This is unrelated. You want to familiarize yourself with the concept of OS integrity and how it is different from data encryption. You can have a passphrase that encrypts your data alongside having access to these hardware features.

It has very minimal code and its implemented in a robust manner. Unlike UEFI and the desktop implementation of secure boot, it does work well and it has not yet been exploited on pixels. Its way better to have any kind of OS integrity check than none.

Yes.

None. This person doesn’t know what they are talking about and they try to discredit the project based on their personal views and demonize the dev team.

Again, you demonstrate that you don’t have the sufficient knowledge. There is no commerical device with open-source firmware. “Security Requirements” are not some kind of marketing bullshit as you seem to think. Graphene’s can be found here: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

I doubt you understand what any of them mean, since you seemingly think Windows 11 requirements are just random things that are just there to hurt you.

You thinking that Stock Google devices are more secure than GOS simply shows that you fundamentally lack the understanding of how things work. They are built on the same core but Graphene has massively reduced attack surface and fewer ways to exploit remotely. And then we didn’t even talk about the hardened kernel and such.

I wouldn’t try to discredit projects I don’t know anything about if I were you.

It does not “ship” them. They are available at your option. Other solutions to solve the google problem such as MicroG have/had several security issues. My favourite was when they leaked user passwords.

By this logic rpiOS sucks because its only supported on Raspberry PIs. Only Pixel hardware meets the security requirements of Graphene.

You really have 0 understanding on how all this works 😭

Name only one reason that is relevant from a technical standpoint.

Not the only one but its factually the best one. Questionable to me is your expertise on this topic when you deter people from using the best option, based on your unrelated, subjective, non-technical views.

You can read their own privacy policy, in which they admit to everything: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww

Ignore their bullshit marketing as for “why” they collect it and when they try to justify it. Look at the facts laid out.

Can you read their source-code? Nope. And they falsely advertise their phones as Privacy alternatives when they collect just as much data as Google.

Sorry to hear that.

Firstly, they did not push anything on you. And this is the internet and a discussion focused site at that. You should either accept that people can reply to you without you granting them the right to do so, or reconsider participating within public discourse, for your own wellbeing.

Skill issue. Get real friends who don’t do this shit.

I was talking reverse, sorry.

No reason to use this insead of Undiscord. Edit: Clear up missunderstanding.

Additionally, relockable bootloader ≠ full verified boot, but i doubt you even know what that means.

Would you be comfortable with using an unencrypted device? If yes then then you have a brain issue.

your personal experience from 20 years ago is irrelevant. its not possible today. tell me a phone where it is.

Without relockable bootloader you might as well disable encryption, as its possible for any attacker even for a thief to unlock your “secure” device by flashing any cracker zip.

Okay. Show me another secure android OEM.

Pixels have the most secure hardware features and they are the only ones that allow for bootloader relocking with custom os. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about.

Thas like saying “Tor users are easily fingerprinted because they are using Tor.” GrapheneOS has more than 200,000 users not including the other people on the outside who also have black wallpaper (a lot).

PopOS is shit. Use anything else.