I Installed a Graphene-Based OS on Non-Pixel Phones… Here’s the Catch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjGjqBAAgQ
"I was watching youtube(Invidious) and notied RestlessOS . Have you heard of this and are there people actually tried this on non-pixel phone?
“RestlessOS is an unofficial, unaffiliated fork of GrapheneOS packaged as a Generic System Image (GSI) for Project Treble devices. It is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any way connected to the GrapheneOS project or its developers.”
https://github.com/cawilliamson/treble_restlessos
I’m very hesitant to give money to Google pixel so I’m going to experiment on this one."
Basically, it tries to port everything from Graphene that can be ported to a standard phone, but some of the more stringent security measures (like the enhanced memory attestation) could not be ported as they rely on hardware available only on Pixels at the moment (and this is why the original developers of Graphene were unwilling to create such a version, as it could give a false sensation of security on unsupported devices)
They could have named such a version “CharcoalOS” to avoid excessive association. It could have been better for security than the popular option /e/OS based on LineageOS.
Fun fact: the project was called Graphite, before being renamed to avoid association with Graphene
It would still be less secure than the stock roms, not only does GOS not sacrifice security but they would absolutely not make something worse than stock just so custom rom users could have something more secure.
What’s to stop one from buying a used Pixel? No money goes to Google.
Pumping up the used market does propagate to new device prices. “This seems expensive but has good resale value.”
The guy who bought it at first paid for it right. You’re keeping the the flow of money intact.
By that same logic, how will not buying it used cause Google to make any less money then?
I don’t see how. More often than not, people selling a phone already have a new phone. You’re not prompting them to pay Google again when you buy from them. I’m sure there are a few who buy just to resell, but then it’s a matter of looking into the seller or going for an older model that doesn’t have the best resale value.
Maybe if you couldn’t sell your pixel you might want to not buy one again. At least those who have to get a new phone every year.
Still better than buying one yourself.
Could be, but I’d still rather put my money on a company who I’d like to support instead of using a Google device and not really supporting any hardware alternative.
Now, that is a fair point of view. I don’t really agree with it, because I will pay Google to degoogle and being secure by moving to GrapheneOS, but I can totally see your point there, and respect that. At the end of the day, we all have to decide what trade-offs we’re willing to live with.
