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CalyxOS is back (calyxos.org)
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CalyxOS, the Android-based, privacy-focused operating system, is back after nearly a year-long pause following the founder and tech lead’s departure.

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[–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

But the jump to 7.2.2.0 is not an OTA jump. Meaning it'll factory reset as it installs. That part's a huge bummer.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    That was expected from the moment they announced the whole situation last year. It's a signing key change.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh, I know. They were fully transparent about the whole thing from the beginning, and vowed to put safeguards in place to prevent this similar thing from ever happening again. I'm not knocking them for this release at all.

    It's still hard for me to transfer my things from one phone to another, and having only one device now makes it that much harder. I'm open to suggestions, though.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'm in the same boat. They suggest Seedvault, which I haven't tried yet. I'll do the factory reset when I don't crucially need my phone, I'll take it as an opportunity to declutter a bit. I don't need much for a functional setup. The painful part will be manually re-entering the config for my WebDAV server. Definitely not ideal, though.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I've never had any luck with SeedVault, but I'm sure it's me. If a dumbphone is able to support Signal, that would really be all I would need.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Sounds like Punkt MP02 which has its own Signal client, but I’ve never seen any real feedback on it

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Thank! I actually saw that when it first came out, but Signal doesn't officially support it, which means the app could stop working at any point. That's an unfortunate dealbreaker for me. The lack of a QWERTZ or QWERTY keyboard is a bummer, but not a dealbreaker.

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