Full disk encryption is an important feature for me. Many mobile Linux options lack it outright and those that have it can make it difficult to setup. FuriOS on my FLX1 not only has it but it is very easy to setup. You literally only have to go into Settings>Encryption, toggle Encryption on, choose your FDE password and the reboot. After that eevry time you boot the phone you will have to put that password in. Why every mobile Linux distro can't implement it like this I do not know.
Not a clue. I know they were forked from Droidian but form what I gather that connection is becoming less and less the further along FuriOS gets. Aside from Droidian I don't know what else they would upstream to.
@publiclewdness Well for one like I said to whatever settings application that is, I assume it comes from Phosh or GNOME.
@bart @publiclewdness but how is that useful to anyone tho is what i am wondering
this calls into a dbus service developed for the device. what is upstream going to do with a panel that calls into a service only available in FuriOS and Droidian designed for our usage tailored to our need
@fakeshell @publiclewdness Why is that service so highly device and OS specific? What's holding it back from being used on more distros? Devices aren't so different that such a feature would only work that way on one device, unless you specifically designed it to be.
@bart @publiclewdness it is made to work with our ramdisk and every other service we provide such as our battery management. anyone can make a service that does roughly the same thing, but it won't be as clean and nice to use as the author of this post mentioned since it is just throwing stuff at the wall hoping something sticks. if you want something generic perhaps some shell scripts would get it done easier and faster
@publiclewdness Coming from Postmarket OS I thought FDE would be commonplace. Setting it up is not difficult at all, though by default not as simple as it seems to be here in your example. #postmarketos
I would say PostmarketOS falls in the middle. If you are familiar with their pmbootstrap then getting FDE isn't too hard to implement. If you are someone who just downloads the preconfigured images from PostmarketOS's website then none of those have FDE and you'll miss out.
@publiclewdness It would help if they at least, like a good FOSS project would, upstream whatever is needed to the relevant projects. Is there a PR yet to whatever settings application that is to add that toggle?