GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple [ENG 🇬🇧]
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  • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    4 days ago

    I understand the complexity of supporting different hardware, but i cannot take this thing seriously while it only runs on google pixel phones.

  • Profligate_Parasite@lemmy.today
    1·
    4 days ago

    Have never looked back since i switched to gos… just buy a refurbed pixel to avoid giving big G ya monry.

    Remember, though, in less than 200 days google kills all “sideloading.” It seriously fucks with gos, and they have hinted they will eventually disable flashing custom roms

    • machiavellian@lemmy.ml
      1·
      4 days ago

      TL;DR The above commenter is spreading FUD. GOS will work fine and allow sideloading.

      Stop spreading FUD. Google kills sideloading on Google certified ROMs. Being Google certified doesn’t mean you have more features than ROMs which aren’t certified. Only Google certified ROMs lose the ability to sideload and have to adhere to all Google Play policies. Meaning GOS loses its certified status but doesn’t lose the ability to sideload. The only way in which GOS might be coerced to disable sideloading is if Google pushes these changes upstream to the AOSP and even then forking is always an option. Also when has Google ever hinted at disabling flashing custom ROMs? It might be right down their alley but I wouldn’t make such claims without citing sources.

      Just as a side note: Android ≠ AOSP. This is relevant as many people misunderstand the news they read. When Google changes Android (Google’s proprietary AOSP “distro”) it doesn’t necessarily mean that changes are coming to the AOSP or GOS which is also an AOSP “distro”.

      Reading through this forum thread is recommended.

  • Ghostie@lemmy.zip
    1·
    4 days ago

    I’m waiting for a phone to meet Graphene’s requirements that isn’t made by Google. Then I’ll switch. Hope it happens sooner rather than later.

  • Delascas@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    I ran various custom ROM’s for years on a FairPhone3+. It was great right up until the day all my banking apps stopped working. Banking app incompatibility is NOT the fault of GrapheneOS (or any other custom ROM) dev’s at all . . . but IMO this is the real problem today with any alternative mobile OS. Privacy vs. banking convenience. And yes, YMMV as some of them do work . . and mine did as well . . right up until the day they didn’t.

      • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
        0·
        3 days ago

        Doesn’t matter if it’s at the beginning or end of the pipeline. It’s feeding the demand.

        I have a second hand Pixel for GrapheneOS to compromise without being compromised. Was degoogled with Lineage for many years, but it was becoming too much of a problem. I’m not happy owning literally a Google phone. Felt I had no choice.

        Really, regulators are needed to sort this out. Consumer choice doesn’t work with dualopy.

        • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          12 hours ago

          Ideally we’ll eventually switch to a Mobile Linux OS in the future, such as postmarketOS, as that would not be beholden to corporate decisions like Android is with Google.

          • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            9 hours ago

            Which phone works completely on postmarketos? Looks like only librem5, which are expensive, especially for the spec.

            • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
              1·
              8 hours ago

              No Linux OS currently supports many models of phones, and the ones it does support, it is still quite janky and not ready for a general audience (calling is often flakey, phone apps are pretty glitchy, etc). The best we can do at the moment is either donate toward those projects with either money or code (if someone is able to) to help get more hands on it to polish it up and expand support for more phones.

              GrapheneOS is currently the only really polished privacy respecting mobile option that the average user can realistically adopt.

  • Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    4 days ago

    This OS is pointless. I have a Motorola Edge. It’s like the OS is written by Google fanbois. Know what would be cool? Something that works on many types of phones.