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LineageOS prioritizes device compatibility and maintainability over security. I do not think this is a good tradeoff to make as normal people don't care about such security until it is too late.

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I think it's wild how universal the idea that a phone is a place for secrets had become.

A device you are most likely to lose, break or get stolen by virtue of being outside of your home for much of the day.

... and where users are going to use it to do EVERYTHING in their daily digital lives, from doing financial transactions and accessing work email, to playing data-exfiltrating "free" games and surfing porn. And where the only actually viable location for backing up the data stored on it is some Big Tech conglomerate's cloud.

I agree it's pretty crazy.

Surely having some vulnerabilities patched is better than having none patched. I don't think the crowd running Lineage is doing so in lieu of the latest iPhone.

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