‘Time for Linux phones’: Android protests against major Google app change in September grow as developers warn ‘your phone is about to stop being yours’
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Android is about to become less open, and users aren't happy.
    • TotalSonic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Unfortunately Samsung is making it more difficult to impossible to unlock the bootloaders of their recent devices, but you can reflash some of their older models at least to ROM’s like crDroid - https://crdroid.net/

    • rmrf@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 day ago

      GrapheneOS puts 0 compromises on user-security in addition to privacy. They don’t really have anything to gain by supporting less secure hardware to drive adoption.

      Motorola seems to be cashing in on providing the alternative, though, which is a win for everyone

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Buying Samsung is never the solution to anything. Plus, Motorola will have some cutting edge devices supported by GOS in about a year or so.

            • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              8 hours ago

              For me it has been the year of the Linux desktop for the last 8 years. I haven’t missed anything for this long. I’m looking to get some detachable laptop, Intel 10th gen or newer to install CachyOS + GNOME on it, and make this the year of the Linux tablet for me. For the Linux phone, I’m not holding my breath, but certainly hope it isn’t long before we can just choose to get rid of Android as well.