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?

  • 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.