This is also a good perspective. One thing I was thinking just now: at some point, side loading on iOS will be a thing. I wonder at that time we can truly use an iPhone without an account at all (not even to install stuff), but my guess is, considering their track record, they will do the wildest malicious compliance possible…

The comment is no longer there, but claimed that FP did have a graphene image, which I found weird, and so I checked the website. I still ask if there was a chance was an unofficial image somewhere, since those things can actually exist

I did hear about the extended warranty because of this issue, but I was completely unaware of the check boxes stuff. Thanks for the heads up! Also… Clearly there are issues and stiil try to pull some shit with dark patterns. Classy

For the reasons you mention, I really REALLY hope pinephone goes far and we have something else viable on the long run

Haven’t touched other phones in a while, so there is a chance this is not correct. However, I do remember trying to have my old s10e to have anything else that is not Samsung ROM. Its a nightmare.

I did check their page, do not see it there https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices

Is it an unofficial image that works on FP 4 and 5?

I do understand where you’re coming from. I never buy a phone without a somewhat good discount (which I got on this one). As for the risk flashing, quite frankly the cases of breaking are so far and few in between that for the odds given nowadays, I am OK in doing this on a brand new pixel (for other phones that require unlock first and all that jazz I do not try it on brand new).

As for the lineage os bit: lots of devices, but the lack of unlock for me is a no no. If it was an older device without important stuff such as banking sure, I would totally go for it.

EDIT: where you read unlock I actually meant root. Most phones cannot be unlocked unless you have root

I did check their list just now. I am surprised some one plus devices are there, shame is the old ones only. I will for sure have a closer look to this list and see how it goes.

That could be. And also, this is 2024. Why is this even an issue with something basic as static? Surely is not the first time this problem was dealt with before shipping this stuff out.

And I will. Still does not mean I will go after something else immediately after warranty is over (or even before if issues happen in difficult times, like traveling).

That was my first thinking. But then again, no relocking makes things a lot harder

Last time I heard, fairphone did support calyx, but no dice on the relocking. A shame really, since I do believe the people at fairphone are doing quite an important mission on the phone world.

This is what I feared. Either I deal with the shoddiness of the pixels and get mad from time to time but at least is safe, or no relocking. sigh Thanks for the answer though

That is for sure a good question, although I would say it would present limitations.

Let’s put it this way: Id photos are very standard. Front facing, until the neck, white lights, white background. Now lets say everyone’s photo got leaked (or used) and the only source of photos for a certain photo is the Id one only. I didn’t study the matching algorithms, but I will say that variation for a certain subject under different circumstances increase the matching possibilities. If by any chance you try to match someone live and the only source would be id photos, my guess is it would present a big error rate. Possibility could be fine tuned, not sure up to how much.

Now lets consider what we have today. For a single person, I will bet there are on average more than 15 photos of themselves somewhere available (for those chronically attached to stuff such as IG of fb) and a lot of the times tagged as well (and manually as well, there was a time on fb this was a big thing). With this amount of comparison points, I would say the matching for sure works a lot better

There is a detail that makes it possible: the absurd over sharing everywhere. If only everyone did not think to plaster everywhere their face with their selfies and decide to share everything everywhere, then maybe something like this would be a lot harder to implement (if possible on certain cases)

Quite frankly, considering the daily routine of a lot of people, this is probably the best thing to do. REST! Nobody will do it for you

I still prefer this version of the meme (which one day I will totally print it and put it on the back of my work laptop)