I mostly use apps installed from F-Droid, so I’m not sure how I’ll use the phone, except that it’s sometimes required as a contact method.
Cry, -as it would seem my carrier only supports Android & Apple phones and I am stuck with my carrier.
Will this effect distros like eos?
Already can’t find a phone with the hardware I want. Might as well get an iphone since I won’t be able to do half the shit I want to either way.
Continue using a custom ROM.
If more brands start locking down their devices I’ll have a conundrum, and it’ll start being about antique hunting. More apps requiring an “approved” OS would also do it, but geopolitics will stop that from going too far in the near future.
I’m going full dumbphone with a flip phone and using single purpose devices like mp3 players for music and handhelds for gaming and emulation.
DeGoogled Custom ROMs
Keep waiting for a Linux phone that actually works as a daily driver.
Use Droidify with Shizuku
Droidify is just a wrapper for f-droid and various repos… it’s affected in the same way
I don’t have to do anything. I use GrapheneOS btw.
The problem for all these things is proprietary firmware.
What problem? Firmware for my phone works fine.
Is SailfishOS good?
It… works. barely. I tried it and kinda liked it but if you’re looking for comfort custom ROMs are way better. (this was almost a decade ago so I don’t know what it’s like now)
Get a pocket pc, probably. And only use the phone for what strictly requires it.
It’ll likely end up being more comfortable from a usability standpoint than it is now anyway.
What are good pocket PCs running linux?
I had a Nokia N900 and now own a Gemini PDA running Sailfish and it is quite nice to have a programmable device wit a physical keyboard (it runs Python, Guile, and cross-compiled Rust CLI programs). A small PC running waydroid would be fantastic.
I was thinking of something like the Piccolo. But I admit I absolutely haven’t researched that market. So I don’t really know what’s available.
Not many good options out there but will likely change as Google destroys android and creates a market space for these types of devices.
I’ve been using GrapheneOS for a while, which should minimise disruptions, but I’m also hoping the Linux phone ecosystem improves before Google locks down Android completely.
Same. I have to imagine there are some devs out there who will start working on Linux ports of their apps.
If it really interferes, same thing as when YouTube started enshittifying: use it less and likely be better off.
I’m still rocking Android 8/10/11, will continue to do so until I can’t run a proper web browser.
Well because of this, I bought a new phone and am now using GrapheneOS. I’m hoping to last at least 5 years with this, and hopefully by the time I want a new phone, grapheneos will have made a deal to have more compatible phones.
Isn’t Graphene still Android? What’s stopping Google from turfing AOSP so you won’t be able to sideload to them either?
We need something completely independent from Android. Would be great if phone manufactures would make their pocket computers easier to interface like tradition PCs.
I think (thought i am not sure) that this thing will be made with google services so just removing them should do, if not, you can just fork and modify
AOSP is still open-source. If they do, it can be forked.
