Comment by pshirshov | Hacker News Reader

Comment by pshirshov | Hacker News Reader

Phone: Google Pixel 5 plus CalyxOS at the moment. Probably will switch to pure LineageOS due to call recording support. The bootloader is locked so the phone is secure and does not call home. Highly recommend. Some apps and in-app purchases doesn't work well on microG, also there are some issues with paid apps. And Android UX sucks but it's a reasonable price to pay for privacy. In fact I've been suprised - with this phone I don't feel as bad as I expected.

I really hope that Pixel 6 will have better camera and bigger screen and also would be supported by Lineage.

PC: I have an AMD desktop with Gentoo and going to buy Purism laptop later.

Watch: I don't use them. Actually was going to buy next Apple Watch but...

Apple Pay: no good replacement, though contactless cards aren't THAT bad.

Apple Carplay: phone+organic maps.

What initially drove you to Calyx vs Lineage? I'm new to the Android fork landscape. I gravitate to /e/os because I like that it's prepackaged, but have no qualms about rooting a phone myself if the OS is good. My main concern is privacy and with Lineage I didn't trust myself to set it up properly - it seems as much oriented toward people wanting to just upgrade their Android phones or add features as people interested in privacy. So I worried about defaults. Calyx looks a little more explicitly pro privacy?

> What initially drove you to Calyx vs Lineage?

The promise of locked bootloader. Later I learned that Lineage does the same job, they sign their builds for AVB. Though their documentation sucks and forums full of idiots screaming "NEVER LOCK YOUR BOOTLOADER".

Regarding "privacy" - I'm not really sure how much work is done in Calyx. Well, you may choose cloudflare dns out of the box and you have a "firewall" (just a better fronted to android permissions API). Though you can perfectly get that on Lineage. Lineage has its telemetry but you can switch it off.

Actually I'm thinking about building my own lineage-based distro (with proper call recorder built in), that's not that hard. Though for now I don't want to invest too much time into that.

Thanks and be sure to post the distribution here on HN if it ever happens, call recording sounds great (I achieve this only with a tangle of wires, adapters, and a physically separate audio recorder)

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