I will be switching to Graphene OS🇨🇦 full time to keep my access to f-droid.

  • mofongo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    40 minutes ago

    I’ll continue using my phone until it stops working. Then I’ll go with a feature phone, maybe something rubbing Kaios because WhatsApp is a must where i live. Can’t say i use my phone for anything productive to warrant having one, but since i already do…

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    2 hours ago

    I recently learned Samsung makes a durable phone with a removable battery, and it has no lineage os support. So IDK, I’ll troll around eBay for a good deal on a used phone I guess. Sooner than later this phone is dying.

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      2 hours ago

      I’m gonna split my phone from my smart device entirely. Buying a Maker 2 phone when it drops tomorrow. Maybe this won’t work out as well as I’d hoped… but it will actually cost me about the same for 2 lines cuz I’m already overpaying on my regular plan.

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    1 hour ago

    Nothing, because I barely use my phone as it is. Hopefully, when it is time to upgrade there will be some decent Linux phones in my price range.

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      2 hours ago

      I’m still on my Fold6. I got a Pixel Pro Fold to use Graphene and it was great for a while, but the device itself kinda fell apart, so I’m back on the Fold6.

      A folding Linux phone would be really cool, and also $3000.

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    10 hours ago

    I moved to GrapheneOS a few years back and dumped their services for an Immich server and proton mail

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      4 hours ago

      I too have been Graphene’d up for years. I’m slowly working on ditching the last few bits of Google, just about the only thing left is an old gmail that’s tied to a bunch of accounts, which I might keep around as a forwarding thing for a little while yet.

  • orenj [he/they]@leminal.space
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    9 hours ago

    I have a furilabs phone i got in anticipation of this… turns out no service provider supports it in my neck of the woods. Kinda fucked

    • Bilb!@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      Ouch. I once crowdfunded a phone that was compatible with Ubuntu Touch and it came out two years late, downgraded, and mine didn’t even work. It sounds like yours might at least have resale value.

  • flightyhobler@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I own a Fairphone, so switching to graphene would be trivial. However, I think I will stick with the convoluted workaround they will implement. At least until I get tired of it.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 hours ago

      I’m assuming, then, though, that you do have a computer, in order to receive emails and such. Too much in society is attached to having other stuff: mailing address, email, phone number, two factor authentication, running privacy violating software on Windows, etc…

      If you’ve been doing it since the 80s, have there been eras that have really challenged your desire or whatever to not have a mobile phone?

      Do you think life would be much easier if you did have a mobile phone?

      Why do you not have a mobile phone?

      Do you think other or younger people should follow your lead?

      I’m so curious about your story. I’ve thought about it many times, and as much as I think the technology is super cool and amazing, I also really wish it wasn’t all but legally required to participate in so many aspects of society. It makes me wonder where you’re from and where you live and if you’re American or not.

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    13 hours ago

    Probably find something else to pursue that doesn’t require dystopian technology. I can’t imagine that I would just sit there and despair over it.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      Tell us what you come up with? If apple and android are out, it’s gonna be sailfish or graphene on a thinning hw profile, right?