Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued

• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is my currently dilemma.
  Each year Android becomes restrictive like iOS with none of the benefits, Rooting becomes harder as more apps tap into the Play Integrity API (and strong Integrity is on the way to kill most workarounds for it), iPhone got a little better but is still locked down as fuck, where the hell do I go to? 😒

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  • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    LineageOS, maybe? Still Android, but (AFAIK) more open to change than standard Android.

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    • LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve been using custom ROMs for a while now, but the reality is that they can only do so much to stop Android’s ever increasing restrictions.
      And the aforementioned Integrity API also detects unlocked bootloaders, meaning this will gradually become more of a problem.

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• can@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Realistically I have no where to go and that’s the problem. iOS is even more locked down.

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No one says you have to upgrade your phone OS to the latest Android. You can just keep using the Android (and/or Custom ROM) that works.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, but what about security? Not that I haven’t had to use outdated phones before.

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      • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Security is not a state but a scale, and is gauged against everything else.

        From the perspective of a privacy / security zealot, a smartphone is SOL as soon as they lave the factory, as not only not even OTA updates keep them safe (and you can argue that with some manufacturers such as Samsung, OTA does is the primary risk vector!) but they can eg.: ship with unfixable vulns at the hardware level that would lead to ditch the whole thing anyway.

        So long as there isn’t something like a state-funded program for citizens to renew their phones every ~2 years for fully open ones, I’d not worry much. After all, the other option would be not using a phone because current ones are a PITA and just as vulnerable from the other end.

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