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[–] dual_pyramid_reality@lemmings.world 19 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Where are all the open source phone OSes? Where are the OS agnostic capable hardware phones? Technically some do exist, but I don't think they have any significant market share. Hope I'm wrong though.

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 day ago

Google slowly suffocated all the 3rd party rom vendors.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Didn't they just lose a major lawsuit over their treatment of sideloaded apps and stores?

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hello, I would like 1 Class Action please.

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[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 18 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't this like 90% of the reason people prefer android over apple?

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Democracy is dead. Welcome to the neo dark ages. Take up arms.

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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ffs if I have to move to apple before the third option is stable.

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[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Great i guess it is time to root my phone, and run a custom rom. I haven't had to do that in years because android finally got good.

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[–] John@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

2026 - year of the Linux Phone :D

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[–] yodaka@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

I need an OS for phone which is completely controlled by community.

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[–] usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

Same outcome as with their search engine, same thing with Chrome, Youtube and many other Google products. They built up their user base with a solid product (or bought it), and then started shitting all over their users by making horrible decisions and inserting all sorts of dark patterns in the name of "security" or whatever else pretense. I'm still hoping another entity steps up and fills the vacuum that Android leaves behind.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I am toying with the idea of creating a PDA of sort from a raspberry pie, touchscreen and a powerbank. Case can be 3d printed, it would be bulky af and equipped with Tails or some other secure OS.

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[–] ivn@jlai.lu 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't it against the EU's DSA?

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok this needs harsh pushback, because phones are affordable, computers are not. There needs to be a massive project dealing with making phones platform agnostic.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Have you shopped for those items recently? You have 200 buck computers and 2000 buck phones.

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[–] xcjs@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The phone I have now is half way paid off... I will say it. It is a Samsung S23. I didn't want it. It is just my other phone literally died from a single drop of water! I won't get into the details. But I want grapheneOS or the most private OS I can.

Right now I have been carrying my phone less than before. I used to take it even to grocery store trips, but I am just getting sick of the endless monitoring, even if I am a terminally online person. I literally cannot leave my apartment without being on camera since my landlord has all the corridors and exits/entrances on 24/7 surveillance.

I know that a phone can be tracked even when on a private OS. And the EU's rules on wanting a copy of every single message sent out from all messaging apps (including signal) will still affect non-EU people, too. It fucking sucks.

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[–] daq@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Do any alternatives allow using banking apps or android pay or android auto?

I realize there are no substitutes for banking apps, but are there any alternatives for android auto or pay if those cannot be installed? Preferably Linux alternatives.

[–] Havatra@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

/e/OS works with most, according to this list.

The founder of /e/OS has a blog where he talks about alternative payment solutions, and he mentions Curve being one.

I just recently ordered the Fairphone with /e/OS, and will be looking into this myself soon enough...

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[–] kepix@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

so no modded apps, no emulation, no unauthorised chat apps. hopefully some root mod will make this irrelevant.

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[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

Oh hell yeah, I hope this means an exodus of people forking the latest open source software they can, or if not moving to Linux mobile altogether

Edit:

I had meant that I'd like it if people flocked from developing android to developing Linux mobile. I should have clarified that.

If we could have a solidly performing Linux mobile that has the capability of docking into a full desktop OS, that shit would be an absolute game changer for personal computers.

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[–] commander@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Mobile desperately needs hardware with first class open source drivers and firmware to get away from Google/Apple/Microsoft controlled software platforms. Phones have been super powerful for a long time beyond what most need. We can take hit in theoretical peak performance to build up a better ecosystem until the market is large enough that the big money has to address the market

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