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Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations (link to 2025 Priorities -> Focus on Reliabilty, Audi, Camera, etc) (postmarketos.org)
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A notable mention is https://ubports.com/en/ which is different from postmarketos in a sense that ubports uses old kernels with heavy patches. That means: good support for things, but difficult future.

PostmarketOS uses the newest kernels and tries to integrate their patches into mainline kernel, so that the reliability is maintained with all kernel developers.

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[–] toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago (3 children)

give me ANYTHING that's open-source and not tied to google or apple. i don't care if it's shit. i'm old. i just need a phone and maybe some pics and browsing.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

GrapheneOS is an open-source Android fork lots of people like, it's what I'm planning on using once I get a new phone

[–] ilmagico@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While I'm a fan of GrapheneOS, I think it could still be considered "tied to Google" both due to it being based on Android, and also because it only runs on Google Pixel phones. Graphene focuses more on security, then on privacy, but not so much on reducing our dependency on Google's software and/or hardware.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah those are things on my mind too, especially since Google moved Android behind closed doors.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My understanding is that AOSP is still and will continue to be a thing. That's Android. What Google has done though is put more and more new capabilities into Play Services, which are not open, rather than AOSP.

I hope someone will correct me or add better nuance though.

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No. The latest changes by Google means all incremental work is now no longer visible to the public until a release is done. For most people and developers this shouldn't make a difference.

As an example lets say I implemented features A, B and C and then did a release to v2. Before the changes you would see A get added, then B then C and then the release. With Google's changes you will see nothing for a while and then all of a sudden see A, B, C and the v2 release all at once.

[–] ryukendo@lemmings.world 2 points 20 hours ago

What reason, they are doing this?

[–] letme@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 day ago

SailfishOS is fully functional and usable if you do not need any playstore-only apps. Even then they have now implemented microg in v5.0

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Do you live in the US or Europe? There are some possibilities out there, but it's kinda region dependent.