Hi,

A friend wants to degoogle his phone, so I suggested the OS I’m currently using. The one we can’t talk about… He wants a small/compact phone, so I suggested pixel 4a (not buying second hand though), but I’m afraid that planned obsolescence may kill the phone rather soon. What’s your opinion?

Cheers and thank you for your help,

  • ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Wouldn’t those be typically handled at an OS level? If you’re using an OS that actually gets updates, you’re only vulnerable to attacks at the kernel or driver level

    • tty5@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      If you are on stock software on EOL device you are not getting os updates either.

      Also a bunch of recent vulns were in SoC specific stuff - outside os.