The moment I don't get to run my own stuff and F-Droid, I'll be switching off smartphones.
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2025
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I'll use the ugliest command line only smartphone over fully walled garden android
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Dumbphone with tethering
A mini laptop/cyberdeck
A modern mp3 player
A small, modern point and click camera
hey gramps, where'd you get that gear, 2007?
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If you have the ability to, don't use a smartphone. You'll be better off and you don't have to care about stuff like this anymore.
For real, when this thing rolls out, I'm going to stop updating and try to still use my foss apps for as long as they still work, once my phone eventually becomes useless I'm not going to spend 400 on an expensive phone just so I can run custom roms. I will have to just get used to not having a computer in my pocket all the time again.
I wish I had... Got me a VoLTE capable feature phone and tried but it's insanely difficult to get people to understand that you're only available on call or SMS now (+no MMS here) lol
so basically i have to send in my id to google just to sideload a test apk i made in flutter to my own phone to test it out?
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Do any alternatives allow using banking apps or android pay or android auto?
I realize there are no substitutes for banking apps, but are there any alternatives for android auto or pay if those cannot be installed? Preferably Linux alternatives.
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Ffs if I have to move to apple before the third option is stable.
I will forever lament my windows phone. Ironically, it was the only option that didn't need to be rooted to do custom shit. You could just screw with the registry and program with .net and direct X
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Modern business strategy be like "If you're not building an illegal monopoly, consider doing so for more money"
Sure glad I de-googled with GrapheneOS that ironically runs on Pixel phones.
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