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Aachentoday at 6:31 PM1 replyview on HN

I assume this is all technically correct, but in practice I've not noticed any speed difference between stock Pixel and GrapheneOS. Maybe their Vanadium browser when tab switching, that feels slow, but I wasn't planning on being part of the Chromium monoculture anyway so this doesn't matter to me


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jeffbeetoday at 6:39 PM

That's great and, of course, only your experience matters to the choice of which OS you use. I just don't want people to get the impression there are no tradeoffs.

Another tradeoff GrapheneOS makes is because of the way they configure the USB port makes it more possible that you will irreversibly brick your phone by accident. You could say that the USB management is the only really material difference between Android and GrapheneOS when it comes to a law enforcement search threat model, but that also comes with a tradeoff.

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