The tech companies are doing a great job at making me uninterested in the hottest new phones. I used to follow the news about them and know the tech specs and stuff, because I’m a nerd and gadgets are fun and smart phones in particular are the intersection of SO much technology and engineering. Moore’s law was alive and well during all my formative years, so I am even conditioned to expect the excitement.
But lately, not only have I been ignoring what the big players are offering, I have been ignoring the phone I already have! Instead I have a PC at the end of the couch with a monitor on an arm that s swings right over my lap.
I use my phone pretty much just for music, web browser, Voyager (Lemmy on the go), and occasional texting. When I am at home I will sometimes misplace my phone for hours and just not worry about it.
I have already pushed the megacorp phone + social media experience so far out of my daily life, that if future options for open linux phones are rough around the edges and don’t have tap to pay then oh well I don’t think I care.
It’s much easier to live without the shiny new thing once you see how well your brain does when separated from it. (and you have some loved ones who are still hopelessly addicted to the scroll)
I’ll be frank with you. As long as my customers are captive on either Apple or Google platforms I can’t do shit.
Dear terrorists, I don’t like your actions, but if you still exist and want to cause destruction and deaths, please, do it by attacking main offices of big corporations. That will be a tragedy for whole world. Thank you!
Terrorists tend to act across borders and so they are interested mostly in global corporations. If only there was one single building that housed all of them at the same time. Some buildings where they all engaged in trade around the world, centralized.
Then that would make your scheme easy.
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You can put this on a Nothing CMF Phone 1 btw.
You can also buy it preinstalled on a fairphone through Murena’s website. And the bootloader is locked.
I understand installing e/os yourself sometimes gets you stuck with an unlocked bootloader. I have no idea if that’s true for Nothing phones, but thought I’d post up an alternative for those concerned about that.
Remember to contribute to postmarketOS!
Fucking love postmarketOS. First OS to improve on Maemo on an N900
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So, does it mean that degooglized android phones will suffer as well?
This will take effect for google “certified” phones. If you’re using a custom rom with no gapps (including play services) installed, you will most likely be not affected.
If some of your apps rely on play services, i can heavily recommend microg as replacement for it.
I have been thinking this for some time, why not just have a certified burner phone or tablet and then a free phone as your main?
Realistically most of us have to install shitty insecure apps to survive in this modern world, but that doesn’t mean all our personal data and stuff has to be on the same device.
For the cost of one brand new top model phone, you could probably get a low-mid certified device and a decent Fairphone or equivcalent.
Sometimes even just one phone is too much.
I only have so many pockets. I prefer to travel light and without a bag if possible
Sounds like you should invest in additional pockets. They’re pretty great.
Honestly, even if you weren’t going to use the extra space for a second phone, you should invest in less-limited pocket space.
Doesn’t matter the amount. If there’s to much weight in my pockets as a whole it just sucks. I ain’t cosplaying as an early 00s movie hacker.
Out of the loop here. How can google lockdown an open-source operating system? I know they are involved in developing it because it benefits them, but does that mean they own it?
They are locking down “certified” phones. You don’t have to have a “certified” phone, but if it is not certified, a lot of sensitive apps (Google wallet, third-party banking apps, for example) won’t work.
So all the major manufacturers are going to push certified phones, which are going to make it difficult to use non-certified apps.
Not completely but they can apply on certified devices
I probably just need to buy a fair phone at this point.
how does that help you
Native support for e/OS/
Had not such a good experience with mine tho. Everything worked but I had a fried camera :(
(Fried as in couldnt See shit not as in actually broken)
Im not convinced that this will make a difference. Just “calling your representatives” response is so low energy.
The comments keep mentioning Linux phones, have they managed to get Linux running on mobile hardware that I won’t have to go on an archaeological dig for?
There’s this… https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
Also waiting for this! Would love to get TOH, but doesn’t look too promising currently.
I mean, there are Purism phones. Super expensive, but they keep selling out so I guess they are reasonable.
I have one, and while the actual hardware features are nice, the constant overheating and incredibly slow responses on the phone are reminiscent of a brick laptop from the early '00s. I am instead just running e/OS on an old pixel 4a (since it still has a headphone jack)
This is why we should use things like GPL.
Fairphone, here I come.
Yeah, I’m not buying any more Pixels. I got the Fairphone 6! It’s good! I’m in the US, so I got it from Clove. Works fine on T-Mobile.
Although, I’m currently running Android… Probably have to install e/OS or something.
I hope Fairphone can continue to grow to eventually meet Graphene’s hardware requirements.
Pixels are the best phones to buy since you can install GrapheneOS…
Unless it’s carrier locked.
I’ve a pixel 7a, and cannot install graphine without calling T-Mobile and convincing them to unlock it for me. Sure, I got OEM permissions, but I’m blocked at the next step.
Yeah… But Google and US Big Tech have too much power and are making the world shitty for everyone. I’d like to contribute my grain of sand to someone else.
You’ve got Framework laptops, who make repairable modular laptops. Seems great in theory but i haven’t got one to test.
Tickle those guys to get into phones too.
Anyways there are very few companies now who actually respect right to privacy, repair, etc. Treat their employees like humans and don’t shit on environment.
I want to get a pixel 10 so I can have grapheneOS on it. Fuck it! I am always in a race against time.
10 does not have a sim card tray, the 9’s do. First post with grapheneos on a new to me 9 I was able to get!
Yes it does.
You could be right. I looked at several of them on eBay and could only find phones with the e-sim, couldn’t find any with sim card tray.
It depends what country you’re in. The US doesn’t and Canada does (not sure about elsewhere).
