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GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back
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Can they please make it work for Samsungs? I made the mistake of getting an S23 and I didn't realize it was incompatible with all non-standard OSes.
Samsung phones blow e-fuses when you unlock their bootloaders, so there's no going back. I think this would prevent a proper GrapheneOS installation.
Perhaps Samsung could start shipping phones with GrapheneOS natively installed, but since the phone's owner would not have control of the OS, that would arguably not be GrapheneOS as we know it today. Or maybe Samsung could change their chain of trust implementation to be more like Google's, allowing the bootloader to be re-locked.
Wow. That is some grade A bullshit!
that reminds me, samsung has been advertising knox on their TVs now. samsung really likes permanently self damaging electronics
Samsung would never. Their customized OS is this nested egg of vendor lock-in, with your data at the center. They would rather harvest data from 99.5% of their customer base than see the 0.5% of us that actually like their equipment buy it and do anything other than sink into their ecosystem.
I got a z flip 4 the other week for 90 quid off ebay. Was in perfect condition, and it felt nice in the hand. Liked the big screen, all that stuff. They I started running into the Samsung customised OS. It took less than a day to piss me off so much I gave it away.
Samsung make really nice phones, but then ruin them with their custom OS and bloat.