Android

chuckles nervously in GrapheneOS

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Pray for lawsuits.

Lying.

Lucky patcher will handle it, I suppose

gonna stop buying ARM based devices until they figure their FOSS shit out to the extent x86 had in 2022

I'll stay on GrapheneOS as long as possible. And if it stops, I'll get a Linux phone.

Strongly Considering going back to a Prepaid burner style and just carrying a laptop everywhere.

I don't need to be that connected.

Stay on GrapheneOS as long as I can, then look for an alternative OS like trying Linux phones again and maybe they will be ready for prime time by then (hope springs eternal and all that).

Wait and see. The only reason for buying any hardware is to run on it the software I want to use.

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.

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 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.

Im starting to get to a point where I don’t even want to have a phone anymore. Like fuck people in general lol I don’t have many who call or text anyway. The browsing I do I can just stick to my PC.

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.

I sideload two apps and when I can't use them anymore is when I can't trust android. One of them is package disabler pro. I use it to keep androids bloat and spyware shutdown.

I'll need to see what the fuck their answer for personal installs are....my pixel 10 comes in ~~tomorrow~~ THIS WEEKEND (ugh) so by the time I run the wheels off of it, I will know if I'm staying on android or moving to iOS and doing a $99 developer cert

At least apple isn't fucking judging what you sideload

Edit: cert on android is cheaper.....if I'm forced to go that route I'll stick with Google