Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ll use the ugliest command line only smartphone over fully walled garden android

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  • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Real talk, are there ones like that?

    Ive seen things like https://www.tindie.com/products/zitaotech/hackberrypi5-with-9900-keyboard/ and I REALLY want one....but they are always sold out.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That looks simple enough to build yourself.

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    • sexy_peach@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know, sorry

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• Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dumbphone with tethering

  A mini laptop/cyberdeck

  A modern mp3 player

  A small, modern point and click camera

  hey gramps, where’d you get that gear, 2007?

  flips shades

  “nah, sonny. 1988”

  continues walking with a lean

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  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It's not a cyberdeck unless I have trodes and a halo, chummer. But some kind of netbook would be great.

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• themadcodger@kbin.earth ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I'll probably go with one of the other roms on an older phone or possibly one of the Linux phones. It won't be exactly what I want, but it'll be better than their walled garden bullshit. That's precisely why I left Apple way back when.

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  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or we just… ignore them?

    LineageOS and GrapheneOS could just be like “well, go on, then.”

    There’s a market for everything and the FOSS and maker markets would eat up an open Android phone, even if the only apps you could install were community-created.

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    • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Those would be great if they worked on cheap handsets. TracFone users should have better security too

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