Can’t stay on Android because Google is anti-privacy. Can’t get a GrapheneOS phone because they’re only compatible with non-repairable devices. Can’t get a FairPhone or Jolla because I live in America. Can’t get an HMD because the bootloader is locked.
Even e/os and LineageOS have security problems.
There is no good phone on the market, to my knowledge. You can’t have privacy, repairability, and security all at the same time.
I’m looking forward to the Motorola and Graphene partnership. I may finally upgrade the S10 in still using.
I’m cautiously optimistic for that but need to see the specs and disassembly. Either way, it’s an important step forward for the phone industry.
Why cant you repair the google phones? Most of the common repairs are not that hard to do. I recently did a battery swap on a “non repairable phone” cost $30 and was pretty easy. Going to replace the usb c port next.
Which model do you have? A lot of them have low scores of ifixit.
Samsung S10. It wasnt repair friendly but taking it apart was just applying some heat and unscrewing some things and once you got it open it was just like a computer but smaller.
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Letting my phone bill lapse just to see if I miss it.
Well yes. But gotta say, my last three phones lasted me 13 years and counting without requiring any repair. Unless you drop your phone regularly or sometging like that, I am not sure how important repairability really is.
Personally, every modern phone I’ve owned post-Blackberry has battery problems within the first year. I’d like to be able to swap out the battery when that instead of getting a new phone or dealing with bad battery life.
Understandable, though I don’t share your issue. Or rather, it has usually been a software problem (app wasting battery) rather than HW one.
I really feel like I should have bought a phone 2 years ago… Mine is now 6 years old and I hate everything that is happening to android sine version 11(i’m on 10)
This is the behaviour that brings you to pay multi billion fines in Europe
So import a phone from Europe
So I already have apps downloaded from f-droid including encrypted folder. What happens to this from September. Do i get to keep them?
If i do get to keep them are there any apps I should download while I still can?
Also if f droid is going to stop working but I already have it what does that mean? Are google going to outright takeover my phone like some IT department in a big company and delete and install everything they want on there?
So I’ll keep using F-Droid then?
it’s a nice incentive to double down on my degoogle efforts
Where u gonna go?
What in the Apple products are you trying to do Google? Guess we will just dump you like we did Windows when they put 11 out and the Linux draw became too great.
You also get AI features you never wanted. Now shut up and be happy
I’d guess 99.9% of Android users have only ever used the Google Play store.
Will graphene get fucked by this too? My plan was to switch over in September but I’m not sure if the changes mean graphene will be made useless.
My understanding is that no… not yet anyway. Phones with GrapheneOS are not “verified” Android so you can proceed to install whatever.
There will b .indirect damage with some devs likely stopping development as their userbase might get smaller still - if they refuse registering with Google.
And I guess there is a future when Google will start tightening the noose on Android itself, which will likely make alternate Android OSs harder to develop (though I know nothing about these things, I sense this is an option down the line).
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Yes, dear.
Elaborate? Surely there will still be some hidden option to allow me to sideload APK files?
I think there is a way to allow this - the way involves a 24h wait time
just look it up. google is rapidly enshittifying android.
btw devs that still develop outside of app store - going to start getting banned too.
Guess I’ll switch to graphene OS. Oh the horror!!!
I’m thinking flip phone and taking an old Microsoft surface and putting Linux on it. I don’t see any other way to be open source where Google can’t fuck around with you.
I would do GrapheneOS, but I figure Google will find a way to block it or wreck it
It was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.
I switched to graphene OS just a month ago when I first heard about it.
I’m happy to report it was easy, everything works perfectly and the user experience is better. Full control, no bloat. Should have switched way sooner but I was intimidated by never having done any installs on a phone.
