Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026

• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then make sure your next device is capable of running linear joes without Google Play services before you purchase it.

  These days I do not make a phone purchase without making sure it will run lineage OS first.

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  • sefra1@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I did my research before buying my current phone, but turned out all phones that could run lineage OS were too expensive, not a single affordable phone was supported. (With the exception of really super old discontinued models that are too slow to even open a webpage and battery past it’s useful life)

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    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When I purchased my device in 2023, I purchased the OnePlus Nord N200 5G, which was released in 2021, brand new in the box, because it supported Lineage OS, and I’m still using it today.

      It’s because I only charge my phone between 30 and 80%. It still has less than 400 charge cycles on the battery. And so I’m basically using a 4-year-old device as a 2-year-old device and it still works fine with lineage OS.

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      • sefra1@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Unfortunately $300 is still the double if what I’m willing to pay for a phone, I paid 150 for my spyware phone, and while I hate the lack of privacy and freedom such device provides, it does everything I need it to do with the apps from f-droid. I just don’t use it for anything that requires secrecy.

        I guess I will just stop updating when the new “feature” rolls out and see what happens.

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• eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Buy on sale and used. That’s on par with chinese hardware.

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  • sefra1@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tried, but at least in Europe the only cheap pixels I could find were old unsupported ones where the batteries where probably either dead or dying.

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    • eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Paid 335 eur for Pixel 7a new last December on Amazon Germany. Not cheap, but GOS was worth it.

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• astropenguin5@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Graphene should be able to run on anything they can run android though? Not sure what you mean

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  • sefra1@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What? Graphene OS only runs on Google Pixel devices.

    Even ROMs with wider hardware support like Lineage OS only run on expensive devices too (Or very old discontinued ones that you can’t find anywhere and have no firmware or kernel updates).

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Run? Probably. Work flawlessly? Questionable. It needs to be built (as with every OS update) for every specific device. The developers only do builds for pixel devices (faq). You can take the source and build it for your device. I have no idea how you’d even begin to do that or what that would entail, but most probably, you’d to be able to add drivers for things like fingerprint sensors or cameras unless you are ok with losing access to some functionalities.

    My understanding is that phones are hard to support with one “do all” operating system. Thats why all manufacturers take AOSP and modify it with their own code - specific to each device and make builds for each. A bit different mentality to what we do on PCs, where one build of an operating system will just work everywhere.

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