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- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 days ago:
GrapheneOS comes enirely Google free out of the box, including telemetry. It is also a reasonably secure mobile OS. You don’t get all that by just changing the launcher.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 days ago:
It’s about picking noncooperative jurisdictions.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 days ago:
Can you still unlock the bootloader on Xiaomis? It was always a pain, but I’ve read they have completely locked them down now?
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 days ago:
On GrapheneOS Play Services is sanboxed, so it cant affect other installation sources. It’s just one source of many.
- Comment on Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? 2 days ago:
Linux has been fine as a desktop since i386 days.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 days ago:
You can use F-Droid and other install sources on alternative ROMs.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 days ago:
I use GrapheneOS on a Pixel tablet without any Google Play so that doesn’t affect me. On my Pixel phone Google Play is sandboxed. I expect however that Google will disable bootloader unlocking on future Pixel hardware.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 days ago:
The EU is no longer an ally in such matters but a bad actor.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 days ago:
Thanks for putting that option on my radar.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 days ago:
Bought a Pixel 7a new below 350 EUR last december. Buying used is also an option.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 days ago:
I use Osmand+ for most of my navigation. Google Maps also works. GrapheneOS is for Pixels only.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 6 days ago:
Imagine the custom ROM situation was as bad for phones as it currently is for tablets. There is just one supported tablet which is new.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 6 days ago:
GrapheneOS has a decent airplane mode.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 6 days ago:
I wish a Linux tablet will be ready by the time the custom ROMs will be killed off.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 6 days ago:
The war was lost by default. The one party did not show up to the battle because they never knew a war was on.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 6 days ago:
It’s not about technical utility. It’s about freedom.
- Comment on Nvidia Sales Jump 56%, a Sign the A.I. Boom Isn’t Slowing Down 6 days ago:
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
- 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 1 week ago:
Paid 335 eur for Pixel 7a new last December on Amazon Germany. Not cheap, but GOS was worth it.
- 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 1 week ago:
Buy on sale and used. That’s on par with chinese hardware.
- 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 1 week ago:
It is precisely about me and a small group of technical users who care about freedom. The rest of the users, that’s strictly their own problem. If the gestapo outlaws skates and I can’t get them on the black market and the society is fine with concentration camps that’s also allright. I’m too old to care.
- 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 1 week ago:
Your comment wad removed by a mod, fyi.
- 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 1 week ago:
If you want to opt out, use alternative ROMs.
- 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 1 week ago:
If you want improved security, use GrapheneOS.
- 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 1 week ago:
Good thing I use custom ROMs.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 2 weeks ago:
Also a fan. Check out Qubes OS on the desktop in case you haven’t already.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 2 weeks ago:
You can use the Google-free Android forks.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
You can use Signal on a Linux system or a Google-free tablet. I use LineageOS and GrapheneOS on my smartphones and WiFi tablets. Obviously, I’m not a normal user.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
These are all no necessities whete I sit. I use TAN generators for banking. I use Signal and Matrix for messaging.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
No maybe about that. A MiFi router and a tablet would be a workaround. If they outlaw general computers that would be it, no more computers for me.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 4 weeks ago:
Soon to lose the r from propping.