Have one (Fairphone with E/OS) and tbh, I really enjoy not dealing with googles shenanigans and straight up malware practices. I did not take kindly to one morning them telling me they removed a “dangerous” app. Mind you, it was a work phone and NFC debugging app from our own institute, costing my employer my lost time on it. Extra bonus for remotely installing and executing unwanted services that reduce battery life by 75%.
With that level of interference, I wonder about the legal implications? “Someone torrented shrek from that phone?” Or even “Device was used as part of a malicious DDoS op?” Must’ve been some intern/intelligence agent at google, I don’t control the device after all." seems like a legitimate defense/claim. Well, as long as the rule of law exists in some way. But if that goes away, then it doesn’t matter really. At that point you need guns and combat drones, not phones.
there are multiple linux phones and distros, but I’m not considering any of them at the moment. I do like some or even a lot of convenience, and degoogled android is just about the most concessions I can make at the moment.
a fairphone with murena /e/os is looking pretty good right about now, or maybe whatever grapheneos is cooking up.
Have one (Fairphone with E/OS) and tbh, I really enjoy not dealing with googles shenanigans and straight up malware practices. I did not take kindly to one morning them telling me they removed a “dangerous” app. Mind you, it was a work phone and NFC debugging app from our own institute, costing my employer my lost time on it. Extra bonus for remotely installing and executing unwanted services that reduce battery life by 75%.
With that level of interference, I wonder about the legal implications? “Someone torrented shrek from that phone?” Or even “Device was used as part of a malicious DDoS op?” Must’ve been some intern/intelligence agent at google, I don’t control the device after all." seems like a legitimate defense/claim. Well, as long as the rule of law exists in some way. But if that goes away, then it doesn’t matter really. At that point you need guns and combat drones, not phones.
Furilabs also has a linux phone.
there are multiple linux phones and distros, but I’m not considering any of them at the moment. I do like some or even a lot of convenience, and degoogled android is just about the most concessions I can make at the moment.