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Root it and keep finding workarounds, like I've always done.
It's a lot easier when you just drop apps/services that actively try to detect rooted devices. I don't miss any of the "Pixel exclusive" AI bullshit they keep trying to shove down our throats, because they don't allow rooted devices to run most of it. Oh no! Anyway...
Trying to import a Pixel 10 from outside of the states for the Sim slot.
Then GrapheneOS and run it into the ground.
I really hope Graphene partners with Fairphone, helps them get their security up to par, and make the Fairphone the official Graphene phone.
Then I could just use Fairphone forever.
The 10 might not get graphene due to changes in the way the hardware is done. If you want graphene now, grab a pixel 9 instead. Or at least wait till they have an official statement for it.
They have officially stated that they can support the 10 now, but it will have to wait until after the port to QPR1. https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1960792610114511190#m
Ahh right on. Hadn't seen that. Thanks for telling me!
Pray for lawsuits.
Planning to become a primary iphone user with a PostmarketOS side phone. Want I want in the future is that if I'm using Android apps, it's through Waydroid or Android Translation layer. Then hopefully in my lifetime I see non-Android Linux become popular. Or a non-commercial organization take lead on an Android fork that gets significant adoption
What phone are you planning to run postmarket os on? They have like a long list of supported devicws and honestly IDK which one to pick if I were to hypothetically go with with postmarket os
I'm thinking of buying a fairphone or test it out. I do have a pixel 7 that I can give it a go with
Might have to check their list and see what I can obtain cheaply
I'll stay on GrapheneOS as long as possible. And if it stops, I'll get a Linux phone.
chuckles nervously in GrapheneOS
gonna stop buying ARM based devices until they figure their FOSS shit out to the extent x86 had in 2022
Start watching YouTube in Firefox, I guess. I can't deal with ads and I'm not paying one of the richest companies in the world an ever increasing monthly fee for the rest of my life.
Were you not supposed to use firefox?
I've always been using firefox + unlock origin, never messed with apps because they are annoying.
I also use Firefox focus as my default browser, but it doesn't do ublock origin unfortunately. But everything is temporary for all those one off links you probably open.
Normal firefox can do the same, just set it to "delete browsing data on quit"
Ya but I don't want to do that lol. I like having Firefox for my main browsing, but when people send me Instagram links and other garbage, I will open, view, and forget.
Wait and see. The only reason for buying any hardware is to run on it the software I want to use.
I'm probably being too optimistic, but they've gotta have a switch in dev settings to disable this check, right? I really hope they're not truly, full stop, not allowing you to side load apps that don't meet this stupid requirement.
FFS they just had that awful Pixel 10 launch event where they talked about Android being open and what not.
A while back, there were rumors of Microsoft banning piracy from windows, then it turned out to be a nothing burger. I hope this is the same.
To add do your FFS:
Aren't they also adding a proper Linux Terminal with the next Android? You do this but ban installing non-store apps? Make it make sense!
I already moved back to a paper calendar in my diary, two years ago. my passwords go into firefox and also a paper contact book. recently google has started interfering with the firefox manager🥳 but mostly I have disabled it. I think it probably still captures keys but I dunno. chicken and egg - how can it ask to save the password if it didn't sniff the firefox page?
Home is now a rasberry pi/steam deck/linux combo with still one comp running windows for games but turned off most of the time. I don't take notes outside of sending to a group of myself in signal. I put all the android games on a cheap tablet and I am contemplating grapheneos for the phone, but for now using a window manager from fdroid, with cuts down on a lot of the google assistant fuckery.
overall, I am not sure. I think as long as I can use the fdroid apps, manager and clock, I am mostly ok. I leave the screen on and plugged in to keep google from killing the alarm clock, but I am keeping an eye out for a nice alarm clock in the future, which maybe chats to home assistant on the pi, because I do want accurate time.
The biggest use I make of my phone, and why I have had a pixel for so long, is taking pictures - to show what I do, how I take things apart, what I need to do, parts and serial numbers, hardware. buying/selling/banking.
The camera in my pocket and signal are my killer apps.
As long as I can turn off frickin google assistant, I will probably still use android, honestly. But I started making non-critical parts of my life not-android a while back. My utopia is a private device centered on me and my family, not a data pump for a corp.
google does not provide, even as well as a paper calendar.
I have no plans to make a shift away from Android based purely on this. I already maintain fairly platform agnostic software and service usage patterns just for these kinds of reasons. So just calling smartphones "done" as an active interest and just using whatever is the cheapest thing that gets the job done for as long as possible is not a very hard thing for me to do if it comes to that.
using whatever is the cheapest thing that gets the job done
Yeah same lol I don't feel like spending time watching 5 youtube ads back to back, and browse an ad-infested internet. I'll get like one of those $50 cheap prepaid phones, then just carry my steamdeck (that I already have) everywhere. I don't care if its a 720p display, if its good enough for gaming, its good enough for watching youtube videos on firefox + ublock origin.
If google blocks my access to Monster Strike I'm buying a Huawei probably
Unless there's an FOSS OS friendly phone these days, that would be cool to try
I use calyxos so it should be fine. but this is so fucking annoying. we need to do something. now if you want android users to install your apps they have to pay to have them on the google play store... and I doubt anyone will stop them. next year will be the year of the linux(not android) mobile.
Didn't calyx OS pause development?
I can't even get images from their website anymore
Buy my friends some real computers ig
Nokia still sell phones, better battery life too. Was curious about webOS or what ever it was that a few fairly low spec phones were using although not sure if that died off.
Realistically it would just become a device I have to have because of the stupid expectations of society, but I won't care about or respect it. Get the cheapest second hand one I can find and use until it breaks. Get a call/SMS only SIM, mine is PAYG but currently subbed to a monthly £4 bundle for unlimited minutes and texts.