Vyram Kraven on Nostr: As a person who has bought many devices. I would say having the latest device because ...
As a person who has bought many devices. I would say having the latest device because of it's long-term support isn't worth it. Sure you get security updates but lets face it most security updates are really just to ensure you have a double backdoor for google, samsung, microsoft, meta & whoever to get in. The whole it's to protect from 0 day hacks is such a vague broad explanation you have to question it really.
If you want a phone just to be privacy free it's better to go for a older phone over a newer one. First ask yourself what are you getting this phone for do you need the extra ram are you really going to play games on it? How much space do you need are you really gunna fill it all up or will you be transferring things to pc more because if you are you don't need much space unless you want to fill your phone with music.
Newer devices are getting more hoops to unlock the bootloader I just recently got a unlocked Moto G Plus 2024. Motorola did this slick shit that I had to keep the phone on & connected to wifi for 7 days straight just to get the OEM Unlock option in developer options to ungray. After that I had to adb my phone run this command motorola instructs to get your bootloader lock code then I had to go to the motorola website & sign up just to go to their bootloader unlock page where I have to paste that lock code.
Then I waited for an email from them to get my unlock code which I have to run in adb to actually unlock the bootloader. It was not worth all those hoops just because the phones newer. If motorola can do that whats to stop samsung & google from implementing that into newer phones. On my older devices changing os was easy cakes none of those hoops just oem unlock & ready to tinker.
I owned a google pixel 6a & putting calyxos on that was easy. It was automated so all I had to do was bootloader unlock & usb debug mode when plugged into my pc the calyxos install page did everything else automatically & I am free.
If you want a phone just to be privacy free it's better to go for a older phone over a newer one. First ask yourself what are you getting this phone for do you need the extra ram are you really going to play games on it? How much space do you need are you really gunna fill it all up or will you be transferring things to pc more because if you are you don't need much space unless you want to fill your phone with music.
Newer devices are getting more hoops to unlock the bootloader I just recently got a unlocked Moto G Plus 2024. Motorola did this slick shit that I had to keep the phone on & connected to wifi for 7 days straight just to get the OEM Unlock option in developer options to ungray. After that I had to adb my phone run this command motorola instructs to get your bootloader lock code then I had to go to the motorola website & sign up just to go to their bootloader unlock page where I have to paste that lock code.
Then I waited for an email from them to get my unlock code which I have to run in adb to actually unlock the bootloader. It was not worth all those hoops just because the phones newer. If motorola can do that whats to stop samsung & google from implementing that into newer phones. On my older devices changing os was easy cakes none of those hoops just oem unlock & ready to tinker.
I owned a google pixel 6a & putting calyxos on that was easy. It was automated so all I had to do was bootloader unlock & usb debug mode when plugged into my pc the calyxos install page did everything else automatically & I am free.