A letter to the CalyxOS community

Sad news - I have been very happy with CalyxOS, and not sure if I would want to continue using it without security updates or move to another ROM on my Fairphone 4. It seems perhaps that I would anyway need to reflash when they get to the point of resuming updates? Anyone get a clearer reading on that than me?

I have been contemplating trying out Ubuntu Touch which has according to their site 100% compatability with Fairphone 4 now, but there are some functionality that I think would struggle without, and if I can’t get it working as I want, I wouldn’t be able to reflash CalyxOS now. Getting a new phone to install GrapheneOS is not an option for me.

What are other people here using CalyxOS going to do to maintain a modicum of privacy on their mobile devices?

  • Ilandar@lemmy.today
    221·
    5 days ago

    The way that was going, I thought they were going to announce the end of the project. Glad to see it’s just a temporary pause on updates!

    The best Android alternative from a privacy standpoint forr the Fairphone 4 is iodéOS, which is a privacy-focused fork of LineageOS that fully supports the device (including re-locking of the bootloader). LineageOS isn’t really a privacy-focused project, but it would also come with some improvements over stock. You can also get a version of LineageOS with microG here.

    • 211@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      5 days ago

      I didn’t realise iodé supported relocking on FP4. I don’t suppose it’d also happen to support microG in work profile only, deleted from the personal profile?

      Because I’d love to return to ethical hardware from Graphene/Pixel, and the lack of FDE on Ubuntu Touch really rubs me the wrong way.

      • Ilandar@lemmy.today
        3·
        4 days ago

        I’m not sure, but you can always try asking on their forums or in their Matrix chat. It’s a friendly community.

        • 211@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          4 days ago

          Yup! Even just LUKSing a partition is hacky. And I lose things often, so it’s an important thing to me.

    • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      5 days ago

      Why iodeOS over GrapheneOS?

      Edit: oh you said for the FairPhone, not Android in general. GraphenOS is Pixel only at the moment, at least until they launch their own device

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      5 days ago

      It’s probably the death of the project. Just read the letter the project is dead. Who is going to send the time to move to another ROM and then come back after they’re done? And who knows when they’ll do it again.