Submitted 15 hours ago by Broiled_Tofu@lemmy.zip to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
I assume everyone on Lemmy uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 or LineageOS flashed onto a LG Tribute with zero Google apps, and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?
I’m just a scrub using stock Android. Am I the only one?
Galaxy S24 ultra here
Motorola G73 because I can’t afford anything more expensive :(
I removed all the Google apps, but I can’t install a custom ROM as none support this device
you can install a treble GSI version of LineageOS, some hardware features may not work though.
You should look for a used Pixel. New phones under $200 are all rip offs.
Pixel 6a stock
Stock pixel 10a
Nothing phone 2a. I like the lights on the back :)
Phone? I largely use my tablet while I’m at home. Don’t ask what phone, it’s about a joke of a thing that barely works and probably isn’t even worth $5 as is, working.
Anyways, my tablet is a Maxwest Astro 8R. Also not all that much to brag on, but it’s powerful enough to emulate a PSP almost seamlessly. Camera sucks though and doesn’t have all that many sensors, not even a compass sensor.
Its running stock Android 11 that came with it, but I’ve never signed into Google and ive disabled practically all Google apps, including specifically Google Play and related services. F-Droid and sideloaded apps for me, I don’t even use the GBoard keyboard, Futo Keyboard for the win!
Fold 7, love it for blending OSRS and YouTube.
Agnostic, for development. iOS and Android.
Daily driver is iPhone, but keep a Pixel for staying uptodate with services and latest updates.
Xiaomi 17 pro with Hyperos.
GrapheneOS on Pixel 7.
Love GrapheneOS, not so impressed with the HW quality of the Pixel for the price I paid. I feel my previous Huawei P20 was more durable, and it was a good 200€ cheaper at time of purchase.
Stock? Nah.
I have something like a dozen tablets and phones stacked on my desk. I get new ones, but the old ones have enough life in them that I don’t just count them as ewaste and wash my hands of them. Only two of those have current lineage available, and I can’t be arsed to update what amounts to a picture frame that isn’t connected to Wi-Fi. The rest get used as security cameras for very short term use.
Most of them still have the os they came with as, again, I can’t be arsed to fiddle with the ones that I could dig up a rom for, or they couldn’t be unlocked to do it in the first place. But none of them were ever stock Android. Since when I got them, I favored Samsung and LG tablets, the ui was highly altered from regular AOSP.
Now, my main phone? My absolutely amazing friend gifted me a pixel with graphene ready to go as soon s it reached me. But I do still use some play store apps on it, when I can’t find something good enough that isn’t (nothing touches poweramp, and I haven’t had the budget to put towards a licence for it from the dev, yet. Higher priorities).
Never touched a pi unless it was a pie being shoved down my throat.
Ngl though, if I wasn’t lazy as fuck, I’d likely swap to lineage on my older oneplus that’s my backup phone. Just don’t feel like dealing with the time it would take. So it’s as stock as it was when I got it a few years ago. I doubt I’ll ever do it unless I get a newer graphene device and it gets retired to the desk for infrequent uses. That’s how I end up with a still working Galaxytab 2 lol. Barely still working tbh.
Remarkable! So you have been using graphene OS for a long-term? How would you rate it overall? Do you ever get frustrated by some of the limitations or jankiness that can come up with various apps?
No bullshit, I’ve yet to run into jank. My bank is a credit union that isn’t a bunch of assholes, so their app works fine.
I don’t need any authentication apps, so no worries there. Ifi ever do, there’s some known to work with graphene.
I’m happier with graphene than I have been in years with android overall. Last time I was really happy with android, we were still in single digits. The ever increasing limitations Google was applying broke my joy of it s an enthusiast.
But graphene at least returns me being able to use my device without the layers of Google bullshit unless I just want to.
So no frustrations at all just easy to use handled computing.
I’ve had this phone since early last year. I think? Might have been june? Damned if I can remember without digging up old messages lol.
Whe I got it, my plan was to use the pixel for my second line in case I couldn’t make the transition. I switched sims out two days later and haven’t looked back since. If I could put graphene on my second phone, I would.
iPhone 16 Pro Max
GrapheneOS is a “someday” that will rely on degoogling ither aspects of my digital life and setting up self hosted solutions for others.
Not had it for long, but a fairphone 6 (the version thats sold in the US that comes with /e/OS instead of regular android).
How do you like it?
Its worked out fine for me thus far, but given that one of the selling points for how expensive it is is reparability, and I’ve only had it a few months, I don’t think I can yet give a useful review beyond that it works as a phone, at least for the hardware.
A handful of quirks from the operating system (most annoying being that the option to paste stuff has a visual bug that makes the little popup button for it not appear, though it still works if I just tap where it should be), but nothing I’ve not been able to figure out with at most a quick internet search. Might not work out for everyone though as some apps (only a small handful of the ones ive tried, but still) dont fully work, so how viable the OS is will depend on if one absolutely needs one of the ones that doesn’t or not.
/e/-OS on Fairphone 5.
I am not worthy 🥹
I thought it would be a Fairphone with a Stallman-approved FSF app set.
CrDroid on 8 pro.
I’d never use an iPhone if my phone were my main device—but I just want a phone/camera that I don’t have to think about beyond those specific functions, and for that an iPhone works fine.
www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-star ? Its form factor sort of makes worrying about anything else impossible.
homologous@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
I’m on a Z Flip 😅 so nah you’re not the only one on stock Android. I want to grab a Pixel and switch to GrapheneOS, but I’ll have to wait until I can afford a new phone and when this one bites the dust since I only got it about a year ago. I unfortunately only found out about Android ROMs and got into cybersecurity shortly after I bought it
Broiled_Tofu@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Honestly dude there are allot of compromises that come with it. You right with the system constantly at times and lose it on RCS of you rock it purely de-Google
homologous@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Well I already fight with my computer constantly having switched to Linux lmao so it’s nothing new. But RCS is the one thing I’m worried about since my phone SIM is fucked up and SMS doesn’t work at all so I have to resort to Google Messages to text at all. I wonder if it’s to do with it being a virtual SIM? Or my phone being unlocked and not from the carrier? idk