Edit: Replaced “Restrictions” in place of the word “Ban”
chuckles nervously in GrapheneOS
Start watching YouTube in Firefox, I guess. I can’t deal with ads and I’m not paying one of the richest companies in the world an ever increasing monthly fee for the rest of my life.
Were you not supposed to use firefox?
I’ve always been using firefox + unlock origin, never messed with apps because they are annoying.
I also use Firefox focus as my default browser, but it doesn’t do ublock origin unfortunately. But everything is temporary for all those one off links you probably open.
Normal firefox can do the same, just set it to “delete browsing data on quit”
I prefer YouTube ReVanced. It does a lot more than just block ads.
See, the way I’m thinking about it is that, I like my browsing to be non-persistent.
Ideally (if I actually remember to do OPSEC correctly that is), I would clear browsing data before leaving my house, so if some cop seizes it, they won’t be able to see all the stuff I watched, just a clean browser, same with Lemmy, it gets logged out and data cleared before I go somewhere I deem insecure. Apps can leave residues/temp-files. I just don’t like the idea of “Apps”.
(And of course, all traffic goes through VPN, and for Lemmy, also TOR.)
Planning to become a primary iphone user with a PostmarketOS side phone. Want I want in the future is that if I’m using Android apps, it’s through Waydroid or Android Translation layer. Then hopefully in my lifetime I see non-Android Linux become popular. Or a non-commercial organization take lead on an Android fork that gets significant adoption
What phone are you planning to run postmarket os on? They have like a long list of supported devicws and honestly IDK which one to pick if I were to hypothetically go with with postmarket os
Might have to check their list and see what I can obtain cheaply
I’m thinking of buying a fairphone or test it out. I do have a pixel 7 that I can give it a go with
Trying to import a Pixel 10 from outside of the states for the Sim slot.
Then GrapheneOS and run it into the ground.
I really hope Graphene partners with Fairphone, helps them get their security up to par, and make the Fairphone the official Graphene phone.
Then I could just use Fairphone forever.
The 10 might not get graphene due to changes in the way the hardware is done. If you want graphene now, grab a pixel 9 instead. Or at least wait till they have an official statement for it.
They have officially stated that they can support the 10 now, but it will have to wait until after the port to QPR1. https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1960792610114511190#m
I’m probably being too optimistic, but they’ve gotta have a switch in dev settings to disable this check, right? I really hope they’re not truly, full stop, not allowing you to side load apps that don’t meet this stupid requirement.
FFS they just had that awful Pixel 10 launch event where they talked about Android being open and what not.
A while back, there were rumors of Microsoft banning piracy from windows, then it turned out to be a nothing burger. I hope this is the same.
To add do your FFS:
Aren’t they also adding a proper Linux Terminal with the next Android? You do this but ban installing non-store apps? Make it make sense!
Pray for lawsuits.
Nokia still sell phones, better battery life too. Was curious about webOS or what ever it was that a few fairly low spec phones were using although not sure if that died off.
Realistically it would just become a device I have to have because of the stupid expectations of society, but I won’t care about or respect it. Get the cheapest second hand one I can find and use until it breaks. Get a call/SMS only SIM, mine is PAYG but currently subbed to a monthly £4 bundle for unlimited minutes and texts.
Lying.
Lucky patcher will handle it, I suppose
Lucky Patcher still around?
gonna stop buying ARM based devices until they figure their FOSS shit out to the extent x86 had in 2022
I’ll stay on GrapheneOS as long as possible. And if it stops, I’ll get a Linux phone.
Strongly Considering going back to a Prepaid burner style and just carrying a laptop everywhere.
I don’t need to be that connected.
The Punkt Mp02 would be great for that.
You get a feature phone that can still do hotspot so you can get data to your laptop
Oh my god that’s incredible
Your brain will thank you!
Honestly, last year I started a “tech reclaimation” period where I was reclaiming my time from corporate social media to free myself from the (as arctic monkeys put it) “endless stream of great tv”.
I’ve moved to selfhosting almost all my services and have gone back to physical media (except my digital backup library) for most games and movies.
The detox has been nice, I enjoy games again, I can experience boredom and all the inspiration that comes with it. Life is good. Disconnection is bliss.
Stay on GrapheneOS as long as I can, then look for an alternative OS like trying Linux phones again and maybe they will be ready for prime time by then (hope springs eternal and all that).
Wait and see. The only reason for buying any hardware is to run on it the software I want to use.
I already moved back to a paper calendar in my diary, two years ago. my passwords go into firefox and also a paper contact book. recently google has started interfering with the firefox manager🥳 but mostly I have disabled it. I think it probably still captures keys but I dunno. chicken and egg - how can it ask to save the password if it didn’t sniff the firefox page?
Home is now a rasberry pi/steam deck/linux combo with still one comp running windows for games but turned off most of the time. I don’t take notes outside of sending to a group of myself in signal. I put all the android games on a cheap tablet and I am contemplating grapheneos for the phone, but for now using a window manager from fdroid, with cuts down on a lot of the google assistant fuckery.
overall, I am not sure. I think as long as I can use the fdroid apps, manager and clock, I am mostly ok. I leave the screen on and plugged in to keep google from killing the alarm clock, but I am keeping an eye out for a nice alarm clock in the future, which maybe chats to home assistant on the pi, because I do want accurate time.
The biggest use I make of my phone, and why I have had a pixel for so long, is taking pictures - to show what I do, how I take things apart, what I need to do, parts and serial numbers, hardware. buying/selling/banking.
The camera in my pocket and signal are my killer apps.
As long as I can turn off frickin google assistant, I will probably still use android, honestly. But I started making non-critical parts of my life not-android a while back. My utopia is a private device centered on me and my family, not a data pump for a corp.
google does not provide, even as well as a paper calendar.
