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submitted 1 year ago by Cossty@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

So I got Fairphone 4, with /e/ os, a couple of days ago. When I connected it to my NextDNS I saw that it was trying to connect to some weird addresses, like every 5-10 minutes. I searched Internet a bit and found out that it was something with snapdragon cpu and location services. I travel a lot and use Organic Maps for navigation, so location was enabled almost all day on the phone. I turned off location services and connections stopped, and everything was fine for a couple of days.

Today I came home, checked logs in NextDNS and saw that phone started doing the same connections almost constantly even with location turned off.

Can I do something about this, other than allowing these connections? These connections are probably so numerous because they are getting blocked. If I allowed them, phone would maybe call home once in a couple of hours. I would rather not allow them, but I don't want 20% of battery to be eaten by this.

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[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why so much hate towards GrapheneOS? The thing is carefully planned and executed. About Calyx... just don't forget that you won't get a secure boot... anyone who gets you phone can temper with your boot.

[-] Cossty@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't hate GrapheneOS, it is probably fine. I just don't think I would feel comfortable running an OS on my phone when its main dev acts like this. That's just me and completely subjective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yes I'm aware of his bad soft skills... either way he does good work and he's capable of working on small details while still seeing the bigger picture - this makes him able to spot and fix stuff others would miss easily. Example that stuff you've reported.

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Wasn't that the guy who stepped down from development entirely because of the backlash? Louis himself is still using it afaik

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