• shrugs@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Damn, this phone looks and works as good as new. Sucks that it can’t be updated any longer. I hate it so fucking much that they (google) managed to make the hardware closed source enough, so that we can’t keep it running after the manufacturer dropped support. Anyway, i know that’s not your fault.

    Thanks for the reply and thanks for all the work to make android a little bit safer for all of us.

    • GrapheneOS@grapheneos.socialOP
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      19 days ago

      @shrugs@lemmy.world It has nothing to do with Pixels specifically and applies to all other hardware whether or not it runs Android. There are no devices where we wouldn’t need ongoing support for firmware updates and development of the drivers and other device support code.

      • shrugs@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        So then open source drivers and firmware should be mandatory. It’s insane that this fully working phone isn’t usable any longer just because the manufacturer wants to sell new stuff. They should at least open source the drivers or firmware if they stop supporting it. What a humongous waste of resources.

        I know this is the same for all devices. Microsoft is killing old PCs without TPM to push Windows 11. You can still use linux on those devices though, android seems to be way more short lived.

        • GrapheneOS@grapheneos.socialOP
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          19 days ago

          @shrugs@lemmy.world It would still be end-of-life from lack of development or releases for the firmware and drivers even if it was fully open source. It wouldn’t be possible for us to take over development of everything and we don’t receive the security issue reports for it. Additionally, building firmware updates requires the signing keys for that and we don’t have those so having the sources doesn’t allow us to build firmware updates in general. The signing is important for security for a lot of firmware.