People are leaving Google Pixel and I finally understand why
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It’s not us, Google. It’s you.

I still love my Pixel 6 and I am thinking of grabbing a used Pixel 8 to run GrapheneOS.

I am not one to chase the latest benchmarks. Any phone made in the past five years or so is perfectly capable once you take the bloat out.

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    25·
    2 days ago

    the thing about pixels is that putting lineage/graphene/whatever on them basically turns it into a completely different phone, all the complaints about AI and whatnot largely dissapear and they become what i’d call about the best experience you can have on a smartphone. Easy to install lineage (dunno about others, presume it’s equally easy), just works, no bullshit.

    • mastod0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Jep. Just that.

      I recently had a good laugh when my best friend asked me if I didn’t want to charge my Pixel 6a (3+ years old now) with around 25% Batterie and I just replied “why? That’s still good for over a day”.

      The look on his face.

        • peetabix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          I’m not sure, maybe. I remember doing a web search and trying different things. I’ll have to try it again.

        • HereIAm@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          20 hours ago

          Neither of Barclay’s two apps work for me. Luckily I only have a credit card with them I opened for credit transfer, because they’ve gone all in on being app first with missing functionality on the website.

    • Sidyctism II.@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      GrapheneOS is literally the easiest OS install ive ever done. Easy step by step guide, and directly from the browser.

      I havent used lineage, but i remember putting CyanogenMod on my galaxy S3 was quite the hassle. Whats the process like for lineage?