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Note, GrapheneOS seems to have been able to secure partner access to Android early security releases, but this comes with the cost that the source used to make these special "01" builds is private until general availability. This might not be a tradeoff that LineageOS is willing to take; GrapheneOS has provided the option on a recommended opt-in basis.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-p...

I'd love to see a hybrid phone with an embedded stock android for banking, pay and government apps and a regular LinageOS or Linux OS that runs on a separate partition/hw/vm.

Like "gluing" two phones together - just better ;)

It would be great to run an open OS but having to carry a separate phone for banking/paying is not really a viable option.

It's great to see Android TV mentioned. Has anyone managed to build a freedom-respecting TV box with Lineage? This is a much needed alternative to "smart" TVs and streaming boxes filled with spyware and arbitrary restrictions.

If you want to check supported devices together with some sustainability criteria and other ROMs, I just updated https://www.sustaphones.com/ to reflect that LOS update.

Over recent user privacy (and security) crackdowns from Google, these OS upgrades seem to be becoming more appealing. Can anyone comment on what differs Lineage from something like GrapheneOS?

How do backups/restores work when using LineageOS and moving to a new phone?

Well, this looks nice. Tons more devices than Graphene or Postmarket supported.

Which hardware should one get to run this? Which hardware is reasonably ethical? Perhaps the Fairphone 5? There are lots of choices from Motorola and OnePlus but I know nothing about them. (Well I remember the old Moto up to Y2k.) Not sure where to buy them.

LineageOS is an open source android distribution. Can anyone comment on who might use LineageOS and why?

I'll have to do the update through my computer with ADB.

As long as it'll be the case, Lineage will never be more popular.

But thanks for the great fork. It's already enormous.

> And I heard that Google stopped pushing Pixel source?

> Yes, Google has pulled back here too. Pixel kernels are now only offered as history-stripped tarballs, available privately on request, with no device trees, HALs, or configs. Thanks to projects like CalyxOS, Pixels will likely remain well supported, but they’re no longer guaranteed “day one” devices for LineageOS. Pixel devices are now effectively no easier to support than any other OEM’s devices. In short, this just makes things harder, not impossible.

These fucking bastards. How far we have fallen in ~10 years of smartphone ubiquity. I have zero hopes that this monopolising trend will ever be reversed without top-down regulation from a big bloc like the EU.

Somewhat related:

I could never get adb in my M1 Air (Tahoe and Sonoma too) to detect any android devices.

I have an OnePlus Nord CE 2 Lite 5G.

Same cable and everything works fine on Ubuntu and Windows machines.

The phone is not getting detected in the "System Information" either.

Tried MTP, PTP, USB Debugging, OTG everything.

Anyone faced this issue?

Any way to get this to run in a VM? Or should I give up and buy a phone that can handle it and use it through remote desktop tools?

The elephant in the room in adopting LOS is the diminishing phone brands that allow custom firmware. If this obstacle is not reversed for usual brands (Samsung, Xiaomi) then you are better off get Ala Huawei which is degoogled by default.

Anyone setup a Rabbit R1 with lineage?

Well, waiting for the eBPF backport then.. still more likely to be released than AOSP 16 QPR1 :)

I just want something, anything at all, for my Redmi 14C. No luck so far.

:^)