Edit: Replaced “Restrictions” in place of the word “Ban”
gonna stop buying ARM based devices until they figure their FOSS shit out to the extent x86 had in 2022
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.
Pray for lawsuits.
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 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
lol I didn’t even notice… well then ig I might move to lineage. at least if I don’t have updates I won’t have google’s shit for sure!
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
Wait and see. The only reason for buying any hardware is to run on it the software I want to use.
I’ll stay on GrapheneOS as long as possible. And if it stops, I’ll get a Linux phone.
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.
Buy my friends some real computers ig
Strongly Considering going back to a Prepaid burner style and just carrying a laptop everywhere.
I don’t need to be that connected.
The Punkt Mp02 would be great for that.
You get a feature phone that can still do hotspot so you can get data to your laptop
Oh my god that’s incredible
Your brain will thank you!
Honestly, last year I started a “tech reclaimation” period where I was reclaiming my time from corporate social media to free myself from the (as arctic monkeys put it) “endless stream of great tv”.
I’ve moved to selfhosting almost all my services and have gone back to physical media (except my digital backup library) for most games and movies.
The detox has been nice, I enjoy games again, I can experience boredom and all the inspiration that comes with it. Life is good. Disconnection is bliss.
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).
I’ll need to see what the fuck their answer for personal installs are…my pixel 10 comes in
tomorrowTHIS 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 certAt 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
At least apple isn’t fucking judging what you sideload
Um no lol. Fuck Google, Fuck Apple. Big corp always suck.
But lets compare both of their stores.
Apple App Store has zero usable torrent clients.
Lets take a look at Google Play Store. Yep, there’s like 5 of them.
Also, Google Play Store only charges you a $25 one time fee for a developer account. You need $99 per year for apple.
Fuck this sideloading restriction bullshit, but even with the autocratization taken into account, Android would probably still be better (for the near future at least, I can’t predict what Google would do in 10+ years, but torrent clients have been on the Play Store for like a decade now).
Also, Android allows real browsers. Firefox and browser extensions. Again, idk what Google is gonna do in 10 years, but extensions have been on the official Play Store version of Firefox for a while.
If that’s the case I’ll stick with Google if I have to have a developer account to sideload with impunity…thanks for this info
WebKit is shit. I forgot about my uBlock origin Firefox combo
Also, Android allows real browsers. Firefox and browser extensions.
iOS has allowed non-Safari browsers for close to a decade, now. Otherwise I mostly agree
iOS browsers are just mostly reskinned Safari btw
Probably just register as a hobby developer and in worst case scenario sign apps I build from source with my own key and install them on my own devices, in case the original developer is not registered. None of the information I give google is new, they know all of that probably long time ago, and I don’t plan to distribute apps, just install them myself.
This seems like a macOS system where you can install apps from outside of Apple Store, but it still needs to be a registered developer. It’s not THAT bad, as it may initially look like. Just remember the old Android Marketplace with tons of shady fart and flashlight apps.
But, I bet there will be a root workaround for that so… no worries. Root, disable, hide root, enjoy like nothing happened.
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.
