That response was hollow.
Here are some direct questions:
For iode:
- How does iodeOS plan to provide the latest Chromium WebView when they currently depend on LineageOS for that compile and do not support out-of-band updates for it?
- You can see the LineageOS update history here: https://codeberg.org/divested-mobile/divestos-website/raw/branch/master/static/misc/ch-dates.txt
- How does iodeOS plan to provide the latest Android security patches when it is currently based on Android 15 instead of Android 16 thereby missing a years worth of patches already?
- How does iodeOS stay “Google-free” when it phones home to Google out of the box for SUPL and hardware provisioning? And when it encourages use of microG which makes many more connections to Google and all apps talking to it do so using the proprietary Google Play Services library?
- Why does iodeOS still not support IPv6 for NTP? I documented this issue years ago now.
- Why does iodeOS still call their blocker snort despite being a trademark violation against Cisco’s Snort IDS tool (which is directly in the same class)?
- What is your relationship with Brax and their Brax Phone?
For Nova:
- How does your alternative phone help the community when iodeOS is violating the licenses of the non-commercial blocklists they use by selling a subscription on top of them?
- Why do you think it is OK to manually provision settings and app installs by hand and leave the user’s phone in an inconsistent state?
- Why do you think it is OK to sell a screen protector for 29EUR? And then further upcharge another 30EUR for a polarized “privacy” one? Especially when those same screen protectors can often be had in 2-3 packs for under 10EUR.
- even SHIFT’s own protector is only 12EUR
Bonus:
- @maltfield and @rmd do you have any association with Nova or iode?
- I documented more issues with iode years ago, but I can’t be bothered to check them all to see if they’ve fixed them yet, so someone else is welcome to: https://codeberg.org/divested-mobile/divestos-website/raw/commit/c7447de50bc8fadd20a30d4cbf1dcd8cf14805a0/static/misc/i.txt
Also to Techlore forum people: please get that animation removed. Years now I visit that website in a VM and my fans go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR because it has to software render that USELESS animation.
Disclosure: I have no horse in this game and am so tired of these awful “solutions” wasting people’s time.