- cross-posted to:
- linuxphones@lemmy.ca
- android
- cross-posted to:
- linuxphones@lemmy.ca
- android
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That Motorola partnership needs to kick off yesterday!
That’s probably why they’re doing it, now there will be a drop in sales, bc, like using IE to download chrome back in the day, people are buying Pixels to load GOS. Now Scroogle is saying no. Their loss!
Or…buy used and get an older, almost identical Pixel!
And Pixels aren’t the only ones with custom ROM support nowadays. Sony’s Xperia devices have the headphone jack (hooray!!!), the microSD slot (hooray!!!), and no notch/cutout (hooray!!), and are supported by LineageOS too (+ derivatives). My next phone might be the Xperia 10 VII actually, it’s relatively new and has good support by LineageOS too.
You also have Fairphone (no jack though, like the Pixels), who make super repairable devices that have excellent custom OS support. Degoogled Android and mobile Linux (!!) are an option, which is awesome! And the devices themselves are quite good for the money, at least if you are European.
And of course, you have companies like Volla and Shiftphone doing their own thing, the former putting mobile Linux as a first-class citizen and the latter focusing on modularity and repairability, like Fairphone.
Aren’t those Xperia phones fricking expensive? Personally and I know this is anecdotal, but the only Xperia I had long ago was the only phone I ever had that cracked the screen from a pretty minor fall.
The Xperia 1 devices are, ridiculously so (so get them used, not new!), but the 10 series (yes, bigger number does not mean better in this case, Sony is weird man) is relatively affordable. I believe the Xperia 10 VII is a good option with LineageOS support, plastic fantastic body, and has headphone jack + microSD card support like its bigger brother!
What a surprise, the former “don’t be evil” company is being evil again.
The entire C-suite at Google is hereby cordially invited to suck the shit directly from my asshole with a heart-shaped loopy straw. Just book your appointments in advance so I can stuff my face with feijoada and tacos first.
Isn’t it fucking awful. We need some independent phone compute platform.
These types of decisions are what made me completely stop using any of their services
I haven’t used a custom rom since the Galaxy S4…
It doesn’t help that most modern phones don’t support it well because, as it turns out, companies love controlling the device you purchased with your money. If you use a custom ROM, they lose a revenue stream.
If you do want to try though, you can go with (used) Pixels, Sony Xperia devices (HEADPHONE JACK AND MICROSD CARD SLOTS!!), and Fairphone (repairable and modular, kind of neat if you live in Europe but I’m assuming you’re Aussie from your instance)
I used xperia on the S4.
Prior to that I had the OG Google Nexus with CyanogenMod.
Never felt a need with newer phones. Basically the point back then was to upgrade your Android version when your manufacturer and/or carrier didn’t support it. At least that’s where I did it.
Very brave to admit you don’t care about your own privacy. Will you share your full name and address with us? You don’t care, right?
You sound deluded. Blocked.
What a surprise… But GrapheneOS chose it nonetheless, betting on Google, the company that started fucking over people more than a decade ago, to stay honest. I guess we all learn at some point. Whether we want to or not.
My understanding is that GrapheneOS chose it for specific hardware security requirements that no other family of devices meet (or met at the time) but I kinda agree that it always felt icky to me that Google was simultaneously the software vendor we’re hiding from and the hardware manufacturer that we’re supposed to buy from.
