i’ve been using graphene os for about a decade now and my second pixel (6a) is approaching it’s end date. i am not a techy person. i am, however someone concerned with digital privacy. when enough people who i find trustworthy endorse technology like graphene, i take a leap of faith because the alternative seems so much worse.
to get to my point, i’m wondering how the fairphone compares to graphene. my understanding is that most fairphone users run lineage os. does the security compare? does the repairability of fairphone compromise its security? i’d really appreciate an expert opinion or two.
E/os is the os for fai$phone that got a few security and privacy features. Works well, I am using it because fair and repairable is more important to me than the best security/privacy. Got shelter running, in my work profile I got all the asshole apps like whatsapp and google services (thats frozen most of the time). Its not perfect but good enough for me
Just out of curiosity, can you see which Android security update /e/os is on? It should be in settings somewhere around android version or software info or something like that, it’s a date like “October 5, 2026” or similar.
https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/releases/-/releases/v4.4.1-a16
September 5, 2026 according to mine. Sometimes they’re quite quick to update, other times it seems to take a few weeks.
Nice, it’s the most recent available at the time of release as far as I can see. Android security updates are currently a bit of a mess everywhere, including on official android on pixels, because Google has been overwhelmed and there’s been layoffs etc.