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PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• cabbage@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I realize I’m not entirely free yet, but I sleep better ever since I changed to a non-Google Android ROM. Also because the path to proper mobile Linux feels shorter now.

  Anyone still on Google Android: Look into making the change. It’s worth it.

  And if not, at least start getting your apps from F-droid whenever possible.

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  • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep, switching as many apps as you can to foss apps, and moving to non Gmail based email services will make future switching way easier.

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  • michaelalf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’d love to make the switch. I was looking into custom roms for my S24U and finally decided I’m okay with tripping Knox, so I’d give it a go… Nope! Samsung has removed the ability to unlock the bootloader in OneUI 8, with no path to downgrade. So I’m stuck with an excellent piece of hardware, running software that collects and sells my data.

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  • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Does “play integrity” work on non Google android? I’m rooted and system wide adblocking, but I still use things like streaming apps.

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      MicroG makes most things work, so it’s not much compromise in my experience. :)

      I use /e/OS which has access to apps from the Play Store, so that I still have my banking apps and stuff. I think streaming apps should work just fine.

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      • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Thank you for letting me know!

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• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Its why I have linux PC / laptops, and GrapheneOS on my phone (may get a fairphone next time)

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Me too, but the lords of Technofeudalism, backed by government, won’t allow that forever. Maybe on PCs, but not phones. No “side loading” what they don’t approve. Banks and co, only allowing their apps on approved OSs. No satnav traffic data unless you use an approved satnav, rendering them useless.

    The problem isn’t technological, it’s political. We need decent government protecting citizens and enforcing competition laws. The problem is the population don’t understand what is being done to them, so don’t vote against it.

    None of it is new. Liberty vs security, monopoly, etc, aren’t new, but wrapping it in technology blinds most people to it.

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fairphone is independent and you can swap the default android to Ubuntu touch OS

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      • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Same problems though. If you run something odd ball like Ubuntu, the banking apps won’t work and you may struggle to have a satnav with traffic info. If you run stock Android, you will soon only be able to install, sorry, “side load”, apps Google approves.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m sorry to say it, but neither Linux nor the hardware you use it on fit under “create your own”.

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well you can build Linux from scratch if you want to create your own. And RISC hardware is opensource, and gaining adoption.

      But at least with Fairphone they have built it so that you don’t need google android or derivatives, you can install Ubuntu Touch OS.

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      • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well you can build Linux from scratch if you want to create your own.

        Building a project is not creating your own.

        And RISC hardware is opensource, and gaining adoption.

        RISC-V, and what’s gaining adoption is not what’s opensource.

        I don’t think you are getting my point. When you depend on one humongous project, open or not, you depend on what those having influence in it decide.

        That’s why they make autonomies, checks and balances, minority quotas, proportional systems and so on in democracies. Because deciding everything through a simple majority vote with no limitations and nuance, with winner taking all, doesn’t make things good.

        In this case it’s a weight of work vote, not majority vote, but the results are not too much different. Similar to how Bitcoin turned out.

        So-o - in Linux most of work is now being done by a set of the same big corporations. It’s not the magic freedom tool someone would want it to be, sorry.

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• ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Time to smash the looms.

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• WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Or start breaking things.

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