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[–] zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what is proprietary about a locked bootloader? the only android fork i can recommend is GrapheneOS. you relock the bootloader on that as well.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I though you were talking about lock out and findmydevice

[–] zwekihoyy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

find my device would be more difficult to implement without a decently sized company backing it but a lock out function wouldn't be that difficult. it just needs to be implemented into the os itself rather than rely on the trustworthiness of a third party dev.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I use a app on F-droid called findmydevice. It can use a custom server but I just opted to SMS via a password