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😢 Habe heute Post bekommen. (mastodon.de)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/fairphone@lemmy.ml
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😢 Habe heute Post bekommen.

"Hallo Jill, im August diesen Jahres schicken wir das Fairphone 3(+) offiziell in den Ruhestand."

Ich finde diese Entscheidung von Fairphone ein wenig enttäuschend, werde mein FP3+ aber natürlich weiter nutzen! Es funktioniert einwandfrei und vor allem hat es noch einen echten Klinkenstecker für meine Lieblingskopfhörer. :rosahaj_headphones:

Werde mich also in nächster Zeit mit alternativen Betriebssystemen beschäftigen.🥳

🔎 Habt ihr Tipps oder Erfahrungen für mich (bevorzugt open source)?

:boost_ok: @fairphone

#Fairphone #Fairphone3 #Mobiltelefon #Mobilephone #fairphoneangels #OpenSource #OperatingSystem

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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

@Kurt @jill @fairphone Fairphone 3 has an end-of-life Linux 4.9 kernel which hasn't been receiving updates for multiple years. They weren't shipping kernel updates even while they were available. Fairphone 4 and Fairphone 5 also have end-of-life kernels. Fairphone 6 kernel isn't end-of-life yet but they're not shipping the updates. This is a massive security problem for every Fairphone and it's very easy to exploit them due to it. There are publicly available exploits usable for those kernels.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    @Kurt @jill @fairphone As you already said, using an alternative OS won't significantly improve security because it won't provide missing the many missing firmware, kernel, driver and HAL patches in practice. Using LineageOS would mostly mean continuing to get AOSP userspace patches after end-of-life. The firmware, kernel, driver and HAL patches are very important and receiving only the AOSP userspace patches doesn't really achieve all that much when many major Linux kernel holes aren't patched.

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