- cross-posted to:
- android@lemdro.id
- hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
- cross-posted to:
- android@lemdro.id
- hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
This is wild because I had never heard of this news anywhere. R.I.P. DivestOS, my favorite mobile OS. Anyone know of a project with a similiar goal of deblobbing android?
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Yup! I didn’t use much of their software but I did like Mull. I’m currently mull-ing over what browser to use next.
I didn’t see a reason. Did Tavi give one and I missed it?
I posted this comment elsewhere:
In case anyone is curious as to why, here’s a direct quote from them (Tavi) in Fairphone forum:
As mentioned, it is the 10 year anniversary. That is a long time and I need to move onto other projects in life.
They also have this for those looking to replace Mull: https://divestos.org/pages/browsers
Check out calyxOS, only tricky part is that it’s mostly for pixels.
So, I’ve been using their Mull browser for a good while now. What’s a good replacement now that it’s dead?
Fennec or Icefox.
Thanks, I’ll have a look.
EDiT: The following is eroneous, Tavi isn’t the only dev and the project is mainly maintained by two others as the replies to this comment say.
Fennec on fdroid is dead too, same dev…
Fennec is not maintained by Divested, but who they actually are maintained by is a mystery. I hear a mix of Mozilla themselves and that it’s just firefox with different build scripts. The F-droid page links to everything firefox except the issue tracker, which links to here.
GrapheneOS is a similar philosophy as divest, remove as much risk surface as possible. Only pixel phones getting security firmware updates are supported though
yeah for ancient pixel users like me it’s impossible to get modern android… I’m using lineage for now and i’ll wait to see how this plays out.
Did you know that not everyone on Lemmy has or wants a Google Pixel?
No one said they do
