Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades

• bobdowl@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s honorable that you struggle through 2013 Android, but using an internet enabled device that hasn’t received security updates in at least 7 years is a horrible idea.

  Upgrade to a Fairphone at least, so you can keep replacing parts while also maintaining a base level of security.

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  • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He could be using a ROM with up to date security patches, I believe since phones from that era still have active custom ROM communities.

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    • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re correct, I’m running Lineage Os 17 (android 11)

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    • bobdowl@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was considering that, seems unlikely to me, though.

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      • Cupcake1972@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hell you can run Android 11 on a Galaxy S2.

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  • Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I run Lineage Os on it. (Android 11) with the latest security patch being from august 2023, so it’s pretty much up to date.

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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wish I had heard of fairphone before I bought a pixel. I have to decline Google assistant popups every fucking day

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    • Guildo@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is google pixel so bad? I thought those are solid phones…

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      • bobdowl@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, it’s just that on Lemmy anything that isn’t open source or self hosted is basically the devil.

        Google Pixels are great phones, but they come loaded with Google Services and this is what this commenter complains about.

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      • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No it’s a very good phone, but I prefer to leave assistant off, and damned if it doesn’t pop up about once a day to ask if I’m it really really sure I don’t want to turn it on. Gets annoying

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    • hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pixels are the best phones to use for Graphene OS. You could also install some other degoogled Android distro, like LineageOS.

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    • GeneralVincent@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you mean a pop up from accidentally summoning Google assistant from holding the home button? I’ve had that issue on a couple Android phones and have had good luck going into settings and disabling it.

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      • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No I disabled the assistant. I tend to always do that, because in the past I’ve found them to be nuisances. This is the first phone where I’ll fart and it pops up “want to turn Google Assistant on?”

        Pain in the ass.

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    • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can put a rom on it. Like grafino West, or calix OS. That’ll get rid of the assistant pop-ups.

      I realize the names are wrong, but this is Google voice to text. I’m going to stand by Google’s decision. This is clearly how they should be spelled

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