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Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse (jacobin.com)
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Google’s Android, the world’s most widely used mobile operating system, started life as open-source software. In its quest for ever-greater profits, the tech giant has been gradually eroding Android’s open-source nature over the last decade.

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

So… we are nearly there but unless you have a very VERY minimum usage of your phone, basically a dumb phone with a bit of CLI to remote connect to your own server from time to time, it’s probably not practical for now.

....and, that's me.

I gave up on my phones. There's no way to remain connected to the modern world and my own without just keeping everything off of my phone and using it entirely in stock NPC mode. Trackers? Adware? Malware? Doesn't matter, I only use it for calls, banking apps and cash apps. How do I access my personal, more 1337 haxxor shit?

Laptop, although I can do a lot of work over ssh on phones and use things like syncthing and nextcloud to get around the ecosystem, still, but for the most part, I'm back in 2007, baby! We're carrying messenger bags! We don't care!

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

banking apps and cash apps

Unfortunately that's prevents from switching to Linux proper over (hopefully deGoogled) Android.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 points 3 days ago

You just need a window into their world.

Carry your Linux phone and tether it to an old android, install what you need and turn it off.

carry two things, like some kind of asshole that carries two things!?

When I was 19, we all carried cameras and mp3 players around too. It's hardly a stretch.