I have been using custom ROMs since CyanogenMod and am currently mostly on GrapheneOS, some of it entirely Google-free.
what are the downsides of rooting?
No more over-the-air updates, no more locked loader. Those are both significant security downgrades that usually come with rooting Android.
Im sorta lazy. Did not switch to linux until windows 11 even though I should have after windows 7. I use the android that came on the phone because im lazy but I have to be able to sideload so this may turn out to be androids windows 11.
- I’ll believe it when I see it.
- I’ll begin transitioning to a different linux-based os
Use whatever I got for now and then hope that phones that allow custom Roms don’t die out when it comes to buying a replacement in the future.
I don’t even use gmail anymore which made it easy to start degoogling and moving away from using Google account based stuff like Google Keep and opting for Foss variants. So hope custom ROM scene can survive or look into Linux phones.
I’m so tired of this shit man, I no longer have any real plan.
I’m seriously considering carrying the smallest x86/ARM Tablet capable of running Linux I can alongside some cheap phone for 4G hotspot and calls/strictly necessary.Guess PC land is the last place we still have freedom (for now!!! 🙄🙄🙄)
You can use a MiFi router with tablet and a dumbphone just for calls.
Not for long, the Microsoft boot secure thing is sus
I’m not one to bang on about the year of Linux, but honestly, the floor is falling out from under ‘consumer Windows,’ and they are doing little to stop it.
At some point, even OEMs are going to get fed up and start offering their own wine/proton centric distros on some laptops/big tablets. They will be awful and bloated, and business laptops will probably be stuck with Windows forever, but still.
I ordered a Pixel and plan to flash Graphine. I hate the cruel irony of paying Google to degoogle a phone, but my current phone is on its last legs.
Hope to keep this one alive a good few years, after that I have no clue. I hope Linux phones catch up.
GrapheneOS is a lot more smoother experience than LineageOS.
What are you talking about a ban on sideloading?
Probably grapheneos until it dies (thanks Google) then 2 phones, a cheap stock one at home shutdown and no sim, only for critical services that are exclusively app based, and a Linux phone as my main.
Good transitional way to do it too. I thought of similar for travel. Have a “travel phone” for flights, rental car, ride share, whatever. And it goes off as soon as you’re far enough along to not need it anymore. On for return trip, then back in the drawer it goes.
Use whatever I have for now, with less and less apps. Turn the device off when I am not using it. Start experimenting with project boards with modem cards.
OG iPad with a Bluetooth headset would have been a goto mobile device for most things in size, battery life, cellular reception. Never happened, of course, when they could sell you 30 devices kneecapped in various ways instead. So if what I end up building is a bit large, that is just fine.
I’ve been using LineageOS for years, and have been planning for my next phone to be a used Pixel running GrapheneOS. While this announcement from Google sucks shit, it won’t affect me I don’t think. More worrying are the other changes in the pipeline that would stop development of GrapheneOS. I am dying for a working Linux phone.
It won’t apply to GrapheneOS. It only applies to certified OSes and GrapheneOS is not certified because it doesn’t license Google Mobile Services.
I get that. I’m more worried about other planned changes that will affect Grapheme development.
We HAD one. It was called Greenphone.
It didn’t sell.
Now we don’t.
It did sell. And it seems the vendor’s plan was to use it to promote their software platform and nothing more.
Damn, never even heard of it. Surely demand is higher now.
Have two phones: one rooted with a custom ROM and the other one for banking. 🤷♂️
If banking apps don’t work, can you use the website?
Like for example if “Bank of whatever” app doesn’t work, wouldn’t bank-of-whatever.com still work?
One of the main draws of mobile apps is mobile deposits. So that might be a reason to keep around a regular phone for just that purpose.
That makes sense, I hadn’t considered that since my jobs are always on direct deposit. I can see how the mobile deposit could be necessary for some people and potentially their business.
Thanks for your perspective!I’ve thought of what I would do, and if I left Android because of this I think I’d get a Linux phone and just use my iPad for bank apps.
Since I stopped using gmail I don’t really find myself needing Google account related services anymore or their apps. My main apps are all from F-Droid now and backing up with sync thing.
Burn google down
I’m going to wait for someone else to figure out a workaround and write a tutorial. Then wait for some indian youtuber to make a video tutorial out of that.
Without someone mumbling into a buzzing mic, I don’t believe its authenticity.
Well, I don’t like throwing away devices I can still do something with, so I’m going to keep using the android devices I have until they stop working. After that, I’m not actually sure. I don’t want to completely give up on mobile gaming because I do like having an easy way to play games away from home, but I haven’t found a good alternative yet. Mobile Linux devices either aren’t worth their price or, if they are, I have no way to purchase them.
I would just install a mobile Linux distro onto newer android devices but on top of the fact that you can’t just install Linux onto android devices like you can on PCs, I’ve heard that, at least with some manufactures, that’s soon to be impossible as well.
