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waitmarks@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoHave you looked at grapheneOS? Its essentially a fork of the android open source project with extra privacy features. So, regular android apps still work for the most part, but you dont have google spyware built in.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That may be the best option right now, but it’s still a far cry from an upstreamed device
They aren’t able to support devices longer than Qualcomm and Google maintain the random out-of-tree drivers for a chipset, and even state such in their “legacy support” for harm reduction