Like I don’t have space in my life right now to do a whole lot of actual tinkering but google is pissing me off and I just remember in middle school just being able to change the boot order in the bios and plug in a usb stick and a few hours later having mint installed. What’s the easiest way to get a clean de-googled os on my phone?

Since it keeps coming up, I have a unihertz atom, a moto g 2022 and one of these monstrosities

Extra bonus question, if I do wind up buying a new phone in the future what brands should I look out for? (But I’d like to keep using what I have until the hardware breaks if possible).

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Everyone has their own use case, needs and preferences My thought is that you have the following options - not in any order as you will have your preferences

    1. Buy a Pixel and install Graphene
    2. See if you can install Linage OS, or buy another phone that can
    3. Universal android debloater / ADB (not as tricky as it seems) https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater
    4. Search and disable apps you don’t want (limited at best)
    5. Install RethinkDNS & Firewall.

    What did I do? On my Samsung tablet, I used Universal Android Debloater AND run RethinkDNS & Firewall. Not as good as Graphene, but cheap / free and 90% of the same.