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voxadamtoday at 11:05 AM6 repliesview on HN

While I admire GrapheneOS and its goals, I feel that until we free the proprietary baseband processors and their RTOS from the grips of Qualcomm and friends it's a pyrrhic victory, at best.


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palatatoday at 11:07 AM

When there isn't a perfect solution, the next best thing is... the next best thing :-).

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BirAdamtoday at 2:52 PM

Don't allow perfect to be the enemy of good.

nickorlowtoday at 12:17 PM

iirc Graphene is in talks with an unnamed HW vendor to make a grapheneos specific phone. They refer to the vendor as someone who makes phones and you've likely heard of, but haven't given any more info otherwise.

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dj0k3rtoday at 11:12 AM

That and blocking the query all apps feature on android

direwolf20today at 12:43 PM

Do you also need the WiFi chip to be fully free?