NorthernLightMountain

(aparently my display name is too long so it’ll have to live here instead)

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • It is a fair point to be honest.

    Closed source could be a bit safer due to liability I suppose?

    If they were to do something really nefarious and would get caught they’d get sued to pieces and probably lose most of the reputation?

    Sure, a shady rom would lose it’s reputation as well but that’s about it. There’d be new ones out pretty quickly.

    And for what it’s worth… I don’t think they’re doing anything shady… but still.

    I mean, I use Linux on my main machine at home. That’s open source. I do trust that though…

    This all struck me after flashing an old phone I had laying around (My main phone is supported for 2+ more years) and then feeling like… do I want to use this now? I got a slightly dirty vibe from in. :P

    Being security conscious is annoying at times…


  • Yeah but how?

    I mean, who’s going to verify the code? And then there are new nightlies every day. Sure they don’t contain that many changes, but you’d need to monitor them, for every rom on every phone. Well, maybe just for the one rom and the one phone model that interests you but that’s still not feasible if it’s not a paid full time job. If someone were to do that on their spare time they wouldn’t have much of that left :P









  • I had written a reply but the site went down and ate it!

    I read almost exclusive sci fi but when I feel like something else I really enjoy something like Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone books or Dan Brown’s Langdon books.

    I love getting sweeped away in modern day indiana jones like stories about secret societies, myths and historical facts intertwined with fiction.

    Extra credit to Berry for always ending his books by telling you what was real and what he embellished.