None. Move out of Android. Their dick move is deeper than just fucking up alternative stores. It's to make sure it's not worthy for anyone to publish outside of play store.
For your safety, of course. Nothing more at all.
Let's invest in Linux options.
And that's exactly google intention. All that "security" bullshit is to justify this.
Without something like f-droid google hopes that someone like me who despises them will be forced to use play store.
And I'm sure many of us will bend. But as for me, I'd rather go back to dumb phones if Linux phones don't work. And google board members can stick their security on a pineapple and stick it in their ass.
With a condom of course because i want them to be safe while being fucked, just like they wish for us.
You should add some sources to your claim.
https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/galaxy-a-series/how-do-i-get-rid-of-appcloud/td-p/7918282
Even if they are not israeli that's unacceptable. Luckily I have no Samsung phone newer than 2021. But after 10 years using Samsung, I won't get any more ever. This is just one of many evil issues.
Such a shame. The best phones in my opinion if you exclude the evil stuff. But there's just too much of it and getting worse every year.
I think it's lyrics from nine inch nails
I guess I committed a crime. Sorry, I never meant to say all of them are worth the same. Otherwise all those targeted groups could go and invade a country and call it their own, and make atomic bombs and attack anyone they don't like.
That would destroy civilization. Only a few chosen people should have their excuse to do that legally protected.
Sarcasm warning.
Is it illegal to question the murder of gays, Russians, etc or just the jews?
I always wondered that.
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Regarding play services, Samsung won't brick my phone like Google did with FRP garbage. Samsung is evil but they have miles to go to reach Google level. Plus I have a firewall which minimizes the issue a little. I'm not happy with it, but I can't install a custom rom... I'm so unhappy that it's why I bought the pixel 5 to put graphene on it.
And yeah, pixel 5 only have older graphene, so it may be the reason why. But the newer pixels are even worse for me, so it's not an option. Not that I would give a pixel another try anymore.
The other thing is SD card, which Google always hated because they want to sell cloud garbage.
Either way I hope to get completely rid of Google influence, and a Linux phone is the answer. I had a sailfish xperia long ago but it didn't work very well.
A Linux phone with Samsung hardware and their level of software without evil would be heaven. But that's just dreaming....
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I think we have very different needs.
I don't even have google play nor would I want it. I disable it on phones I can't remove. I never noticed graphene being slow. Google wallet is another thing I wouldn't want even if they pay me a lot. It's a plus for graphene (or any custom rom).
My issues are that I might have been spoiled by samsung. Just swipe and slide to change brightness (I do it all the time and it's a bunch of clicks on graphene), enable bluetooth with 1 click and automatically connect and even with screen locked (not a big deal since the s10 has a headphone jack, but a massive issues on a phone that killed it, and even then the s10 works better), some other things that don't work without unlocking and the s10 does (I never noticed the notifications thing since I barely use it), wi-fi bundled in the "internet" option together with mobile data (whose idea was this?) requiring extra clicks, and other things.
It may be stock AOSP issues, which I don't know why people praise it (like when samsung puts their apps they call it bloatware, but a phone with only all sorts of google garbage people are happy with). Like the obnoxious google search on home screen that you can't remove it unless you change the launcher altogether.
And then the usb-c dongle, which is a "solution" to a problem that didn't exist, and the ones I tried didn't work very well, plus not being able to charge while talking (another dongle?), plus having to carry that thing around.
But I'm barking at the clouds. Since apple "invented" the handicapped phone, the world moved on. That's why I'm holding on to the s10 for as long as I can. It's the last phone that has the minimum requirements I see on a phone.
But just to be clear, I don't hate graphene. It has its place and I'm happy for those who make it. It's just not a great experience for me.
What I hate is the pixel. That's what I regret buying. And graphene only works on pixel, so it's a good thing for me that I won't miss it. It would be sad if it was a rom I love on a phone I hate.
Ah, and to be clear, I also hate samsung. But I love the s10. If not for the spyware, the lack of support for custom roms, I would really like their phones and software. But they have to be evil and copy apple and google where they can...
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I don't know if you should buy the Motorola, but don't buy a pixel if you think you might ever care about lack of headphone jack and external storage. I thought I could live with it, but I went back to the galaxy s10 and I'm holding on to it until it can't make calls anymore. It's sooo much better! No more bluetooth annoyances and all the extra storage I want for a fraction of the price.
Also I personally dislike graphene, which is on my pixel5 (the one I replaced with the s10). The only thing I really like is how it asks if you want to allow network when you install an app. But everything takes so many more clicks than it should... And the exaggerated concern with security makes everything even worse. It's probably great if you are Snowden, but for almost everyone else it's too many sacrifices to make with no reward.
But absolutely don't buy brand new, unless you support google for everything they are doing and you want to send them a message that they are doing a great job. My pixel5 is in great condition and basically brand new, like all other second hand phones I bought (including the s10).
In summary: I would have bought something else today instead of the pixel 5 (I would have tried something with good Lineage support, probably a Motorola).
Problem being I don’t know how that would work, especially since banks would probably hate freedom respecting systems.
Yeah, that's the thing, I don't think it's possible without becoming as evil as the alternative. If it is, I'm all for it. But my freedom comes first.
Australia will lose cash over time. All first world countries will. You can't stop "progress". It's just a matter of how long, and then how long until you are not a citizen without Google play on your phone. Or considered disabled, which is already happening.
I'll be honest that I don't know how it works because I never cared. What I know is that it doesn't work with root or most roms, it removes my freedom because my phone can't be "trusted", so any other issue it has is not important. Even if it was more private than cash. It needs Google to "trust" my phone and I really, seriously trust a thief more than Google.
Cards are another massive issue but it's a problem so widespread that there's nothing I can do about it anymore. I use cash whenever I can but I know humanity and it will die soon because people don't care.
And later tap to pay will be mandatory and if you don't have spyware (Google play, apple) on your phone you can't buy anything anymore.
The present is bad, the future is horrible.
That's interesting to see the opinion of a chromium user. And nice thing you checked about the google connections. This is a good thing to know as that was worrying me.
After using it for a while as a main browser I did find a bunch of bugs. Mainly that often I can't go back to the previous page at all and some stuff like images on manga websites are downloading way slower than on firefox, I don't know why. It's not the browser being slow, it's the download being slow.
I figured I'll wait until it's more stable. It could be my phone because I have issues with Firefox too. But if the only way to report bugs is a microsoft account I'll leave it to other people.
Not that I own all these, but what do they have to do with my phone? I don't see any connection to those except where I wanted to create it.
I'm not stopping you from wanting your apple/Linux phone. Or anyone from making it. I'm just saying that I believe that my interests are similar to a lot of people who care about open source, and therefore:
-The people who care about open source will not support that enough to be successfull (currently, as more people keep saying stuff like "I just can't live without this convenience" it might change).
-The people who care about those conveniences that much don't care about open source, privacy or freedom, and they won't support it either. They will only support it if it's even more convenient and lazy, and for that the apple/Linux phone would have to be even more evil than the current options.
So in my mind it's a dead end, and I personally I don't support it. But go for it! And I do believe that over times those conveniences will be seen more and more as needs and soon we might have a Linux phone I wouldn't want to use. But good for those who want it.
BUT just to be clear, I desperately want a Linux phone, yes! But my concerns are stuff like: does the hardware work well? does the camera work well? Does the GPS work well? What about signal with the telecoms? Battery lifre? You know, mostly hardware related with the software.
Tap to pay, car play, siri, all those things can be on the list, but way down on the bottom.
That's a bit extreme. Some of those are not linked.
Yes you can not have cloud pictures without having to trust the server. But you can have an open source, inspected system that uses gps without any related data being shared. Gps doesn't send data, it's the system choice to create a way to send it to someone. You can have a Linux phone that doesn't chose to do that.
You can have convenience with privacy, but the companies offering those services don't want that, nor do the consumers care.
And those consumers would not care about a Linux phone.
It's not the existence of the option. It's the requirements it brings.
Which companies will this phone need to shake hands for that to work? What price will they have to pay? What risks does it bring to my privacy on that phone? What requirements will they have? Banks, car companies, credit card companies etc are not the kind of company I want to see involved in my system.
If magically you can have those agreements without any risk for me, then I'm happy with it. But it's impossible. You want a different product than mine with those needs.
I need freedom and trust in my system and I would like convenience. You need convenience and would like freedom and trust. It's a matter of how much you have to sacrifice of one to get the other. It's a personal choice.
For example, even before Android shitified itself, tap to pay wouldn't work if you have root or most custom roms. Is it the price I have to pay for your option? Limit how I can use my phone so that Banks can trust it? Imagine if I couldn't use sudo on Linux because someone wants to bend over to a bank?
I would look for a different system.
Or, touch wood, using cash!
Imagine the horror. Something that can even work if there's no internet at all, like the cave man used...
Or, sarcasm aside, besides working properly offline, it doesn't give money to evil companies like visa. Then with the phone there's yet another evil company profiting from you. And giving people the idea that it's impossible to live without doing so.
It's a little extra convenience for those who like it, sure, but it's crazy to say they can't live without it.
That's the problem. The things you think "people" need is what they already have and it can't be different. "I want to trust everything on a company online but I want my data to be private and safe." You have to choose. For those people who think they "need" what you say, they already have apple and Google.
Just like Linux was never meant to replicate windows "features" like cortana and others, and it didn't, and it works for those who don't want those things which is why they want Linux.
The requirements for Linux to have your "needs" would make me not want it, and then it would just be a poor version of apple without the trillions of dollars that come with it. It wouldn't please either side.
The things open source people care will always be a minority. It's sad but it's the reality.
Yeah, I know. But it works and the security issue found is not applicable for my use case. I've been using it for too many years and it will be a pain to move.
But I knew the day would come and I guess fdroid dropping it means that this is it. I'm actually surprised there were option for encfs for so long.
EDS was the only one supporting encfs as far as I know... That's bad for me, but I guess I may be the only person still using it..
Custom ROMs won't be an option forever. They are going step by step, just "the tip" first to not hurt too much.
Unless people fully fork android and maintain it, but then google will make sure to break compatibility. Plus less and less phones make it possible to install custom ROMs.
The only way forward is getting rid of them. Like Linux and microsoft. "Ecosystem" will always be a problem as it is with Linux (adobe and other garbage refusing to allow compatibility), but as long as it works well as a phone, like Linux works well as a computer, then it will be fine for a lot of people and software will be made to meet their needs (and a lot of software will work as it is now, like Syncthing does on Sailfish).
It worked with desktops. It took a long time, but it did. It can work with phones if there is enough people backing it.
It will be a bumpy road again but if I can get 100% free of google as I did with microsoft, it will be worthy.