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Could be a prod ready engineering sample. They get around more than you may think.

Thank you for the heads up!

heck. I’ve not had it so far in Firefox. Will keep an eye on it I guess

Is this with Firefox + ublock origin? Things are still fine on my side.

suse is neat 🥰

habibi I’m afraid I’ve not had good experiences with manjaro, I may need to defer to someone else in this thread. tumbleweed is cool as heck though.

I’d personally stick to fedora?

This may be at odds with stability somewhat being rolling release, but you may want to check out SUSE tumbleweed or EndeavourOS. You already have a solid pick based on your established requirements.

Couldn’t hurt to poke around other offerings in a VM, though

well, at least they provided some rationale for switching browsers. still, it’s good thing we have bazzite.

I feel that, I just wanted to set your expectations. I prefer and will continue to use CalyxOS but I have no expectation that they will deliver the same level of protections/mitigations at the OS side as Graphene given their project scope is different.

CalyxOS aims for a private, yet simple (attainable) Android experience, and I align more closely with their ideology on having a FOSS replacement for Google Play Services in MicroG.

I suppose one thing you could levarage is work profiles on Calyx to “jail” apps you do not trust, though I’m not sure that meaningfully builds upon Android 15s own application sandboxing.

Perhaps as a long term goal you could look into making a custom fork of CalyxOS for your device and incorporating parts of Graphene’s hardening but this will be a lot of work.

As a calyxOS user, if your key concerns are security and device hardening, I’d recommend you just make a seedvault backup and switch to graphene.

The two projects have somewhat different scopes and I don’t think you’ll achieve the same degree of sw security on calyx.

Here’s an interesting excerpt:

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

E: fwiw, Firefox built from source is exempt from these terms of use. Forks are also a great option but I wonder if Linux distros will approach this accordingly.

E2: apparently these ToU only apply when using their chatbot.

E3: I think I misunderstood some conversations surrounding the topic for E2