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Coincidence that all are gaining traction?
I’m doing my part ! Mail send with help from fdroid.
Everyone is talking about getting a fairphone and whatnot but I’m concerned about the open source apk communities shutting down since the market share and interest is killed by this.
My main issue is losing YouTube ReVanced. I refuse to pay for Premium! Especially to one of the wealthiest companies in the world!
TD;DR
(FOR EVERYONE)
Here is the petition that we all need to sign:
https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-apk-file-usage
(FOR DEVELOPERS or “DEVELOPERS” 😉 )
Here is the form that we need to fill:
(Please UPVOTE this so others can see!)
The tech companies are doing a great job at making me uninterested in the hottest new phones. I used to follow the news about them and know the tech specs and stuff, because I’m a nerd and gadgets are fun and smart phones in particular are the intersection of SO much technology and engineering. Moore’s law was alive and well during all my formative years, so I am even conditioned to expect the excitement.
But lately, not only have I been ignoring what the big players are offering, I have been ignoring the phone I already have! Instead I have a PC at the end of the couch with a monitor on an arm that s swings right over my lap.
I use my phone pretty much just for music, web browser, Voyager (Lemmy on the go), and occasional texting. When I am at home I will sometimes misplace my phone for hours and just not worry about it.
I have already pushed the megacorp phone + social media experience so far out of my daily life, that if future options for open linux phones are rough around the edges and don’t have tap to pay then oh well I don’t think I care.
It’s much easier to live without the shiny new thing once you see how well your brain does when separated from it. (and you have some loved ones who are still hopelessly addicted to the scroll)
Sometimes I use my phone so little that I only need to charge it every 2-3 days. Nearly everything that it does my PC can do better and not try to lock me in to a dozen different
monthlyweekly subscriptions.PCs are the best, especially the keyboard (I don’t like using a mouse), the shortcuts, and the terminal.
I just got a Pixel 9a and put GrapheneOS on it straight away . my battery with my current usage says 4 days hahah. my old phone was 1 day maybe. I loose my phone around the house , my friends know I don’t text back for awhile.
Twinsies 👭
I’ll be frank with you. As long as my customers are captive on either Apple or Google platforms I can’t do shit.
Dear terrorists, I don’t like your actions, but if you still exist and want to cause destruction and deaths, please, do it by attacking main offices of big corporations. That will be a tragedy for whole world. Thank you!
Terrorists tend to act across borders and so they are interested mostly in global corporations. If only there was one single building that housed all of them at the same time. Some buildings where they all engaged in trade around the world, centralized.
Then that would make your scheme easy.
you mean this place?
Decentralize the world!
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You can put this on a Nothing CMF Phone 1 btw.
You can also buy it preinstalled on a fairphone through Murena’s website. And the bootloader is locked.
I understand installing e/os yourself sometimes gets you stuck with an unlocked bootloader. I have no idea if that’s true for Nothing phones, but thought I’d post up an alternative for those concerned about that.
I don’t understand why most people consider that having the bootloader locked is so important. You’ll get a terrifying warning message when you start your phone. But without a physical access to your phone and your password, no one can do anything.
Banking apps and some authenticators won’t work on a phone with an unlocked bootloader.
Depends on the bank. Root seems to be all the ones I use check for.
Remember to contribute to postmarketOS!
Fucking love postmarketOS. First OS to improve on Maemo on an N900
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Doesn’t even take that much. Most can be bought with a couple thousand.
So, does it mean that degooglized android phones will suffer as well?
This will take effect for only google “certified” phones. If you’re using a custom rom with no gapps (including play services) installed, you will most likely be not affected.
If some of your apps rely on play services, i can heavily recommend microg as replacement for it.
Do I have to install microg or graphene or whatever on my Google Pixel before that date or miss the boat?
Have been putting it off.
GrapheneOS has sandboxed play services that you can easily install to make sure apps work. my banking app only works with play store services so I installed them and set them to zero permissions. You can also make a second profile with nothing installed and switch when you need those apps. MicroG has never worked for me on any phone.
Out of the loop here. How can google lockdown an open-source operating system? I know they are involved in developing it because it benefits them, but does that mean they own it?
They are locking down “certified” phones. You don’t have to have a “certified” phone, but if it is not certified, a lot of sensitive apps (Google wallet, third-party banking apps, for example) won’t work.
So all the major manufacturers are going to push certified phones, which are going to make it difficult to use non-certified apps.
I have been thinking this for some time, why not just have a certified burner phone or tablet and then a free phone as your main?
Realistically most of us have to install shitty insecure apps to survive in this modern world, but that doesn’t mean all our personal data and stuff has to be on the same device.
For the cost of one brand new top model phone, you could probably get a low-mid certified device and a decent Fairphone or equivcalent.
Sometimes even just one phone is too much.
I only have so many pockets. I prefer to travel light and without a bag if possible
Sounds like you should invest in additional pockets. They’re pretty great.
Honestly, even if you weren’t going to use the extra space for a second phone, you should invest in less-limited pocket space.
Doesn’t matter the amount. If there’s to much weight in my pockets as a whole it just sucks. I ain’t cosplaying as an early 00s movie hacker.
Haha, fair!
This is why we should use things like GPL.
I probably just need to buy a fair phone at this point.
how does that help you
Native support for e/OS/
Had not such a good experience with mine tho. Everything worked but I had a fried camera :(
(Fried as in couldnt See shit not as in actually broken)
