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Natasha Nox πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

If anyone still wonders if they should buy : No. You should not.

They've now put a hardware-based anti-rollback feature in place that, if you try to roll back (f.e. to install a custom ROM without Google spyware or because of some other issue) your device will be hard bricked, irreparably.
https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Oneplus_phone_update_introduces_hardware_anti-rollback

They're worsening for years now, this is just the newest addition of crap they pull.

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@Natanox Actually, yes, you should buy #OnePlus 6. It is very well supported phone by mainline kernel, and they are getting real cheap now. You may want to avoid anything newer than that :-).
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Natasha Nox πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

@pavel Doesn't that one also have an AMOLED? My OnePlus 7 Pro got one and by now it got the most horrible burn-ins.

Right now I'm considering a Jolla device (SailfishOS) as daily driver once my current one breaks.

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@Natanox Should be OLED, yes. But no, I did not notice any burn-in.

Sailfish is non-free, so it is not on my lists.

OnePlus 6's biggest problem is that it is ... too big :-).
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@pavel @Natanox the ui is made with a closed source library that you must use.

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@kura @pavel Aaaand my interest for their devices just went kapoof.

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@Natanox @kura @pavel I wonder why there is such a compatibility difference between sailfish and postmarket, can't they just release/upstream the drivers for a port? Afaik, there are no blackbox blobs in postmarket.
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@Natanox
Thanks. I once proudly owned a OnePlus One. Now that company is on my shitlist. And that is permanent. Samsung is on my shitlist since 2011 and I hold that up even today, 15 years later.

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@momo Keep holding that up, Samsung Smartphones are utterly awful.

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@Natanox
I can tell you stories about samsung hard disks, SSDs, printers, DVD players, TVs and laptops. Most of them from own experience. I learned that Samsung is korean for "3 Stars". Probably 3 out of 5...

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@momo @Natanox 3 out of 10 with some products. Definitely for the length of the Android update process compared to GrapheneOS or even vanilla Pixel.

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