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.
I’ll go back to Ubuntu Touch. I used it a year ago and it wasn’t completely compatible with Fairphone. Now it is.
I mean, unless there’s some alternative that banking apps and such will work on there really isn’t much you can do right?
Jolla has a Linux OS that supports Android apps. Works for Swedish banking apps, at least.
I use hardware TAN generators and browsers. The cards support NFC payments. My banking apps run fine on Lineage OS and GrapheneOS.
Can’t you use a browser for banking? That’s what I do.
Or really, I just do my banking on the laptop.
Maybe you can use credit cards for everything but here it would be expected to be able to, at worst, pay with a direct transfer, and you’d need a banking app for that.
Really? You can do that in a web browser here, and never been in a situation where I need to make a bank transfer immediately. Only something like paying an invoice which you usually have weeks to pay.
What is the problem with SEPA? It just works.
I’m not in Europe?
If we can, donate to the devs. Let’s supercharge the evolution / revolution.
would love it if the community could fund and get a way to create a desktop app (linux, etc) that would connect via adb and sync apks and other apps. just move f-droid and alt app stores to an old school “itunes” method.
Find a phone to use plasma mobile on most likely.
ADB in the meantime.
I’ll just
adb installthose same apps from f-droid. But my hope is that I will be using mobile linux more and more as a daily-driver, until it eventually replaces Android 100%I guess just don’t by one of these “certified Android devices”. Might become a selling point. Other option would be to run SailfishOS (buy a Jolla phone) or install Ubuntu Touch / Mobian and use Anbox.
CUSTOMS ROMS BABY
Fight it as long as I can with my current fairly new phone. I assume that update by google would require an OS update, not a google play update. I might just not update my OS until I get a new phone.
If I’m lucky I won’t need to update for a few years and an awesome linux phone will be available. If not then some de-googled android phone.
I hope there will be a good Linux phone in a few years that I can switch to. Would be great with it was compatible with the latest Fairphone by then, for a true FOSS and ethical phone.
From what I’ve been researching, Fairphones pretty much work after a year or two on at least Ubuntu Touch. It uses Halium though for that. It seems like the older ones mostly work after a couple years on postmarketOS, but crucial stuff like audio from the speakers is still broken or whatever. Security is pretty obviously gonna be worse than an Android phone no matter what you use though.
brute force it with root
you literally cannot prevent root from doing anything.
What happens wen they prevent rꝏting tho ? Samsung already doing it
I will NOT buy devices that i can’t root, therefore i cannot own.
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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.
Staying on Graphene for the time being. AFAIK should be able to still install apps whatever way I see fit.
Graphene’s team has stated that they are looking into OEM’s to potentially work out a solution to make a suitable device to run GOS, since Google is locking things down.
If it really comes to it, (long term), I’ll make the jump to a Linux mobile device, whether that’s a phone or a custom solution.
Just because corpo’s are making things difficult, doesn’t mean I’m going to cave. I started this privacy journey 6 years ago and I’m not about to undo it because of greed and inconvenience.
Use my phone less.
I can’t think of a single app I use that doesn’t have a desktop/web version.
Camera
You don’t need any apps for that, you can just use a normal camera.
We use phone for the convenience. Taking a pic and sending it to your friends directly. If a camera can do that, I’m on your side
Custom ROM
Will they be able to circumvent Google’s restriction?
