Are we coming to (or past) a point where one needs to not update Android, for sanity’s sake, and risk getting hacked until an alternative rises?
Mobian already exists
In terms of security alone custom (degoogled) Roms, even lineageos with an unlocked bootloader blows mobile Linux security out of the water. I would love to switch to a Linux phone for daily driving but I can’t until they nail down security or lineageos stops existing
i like how android releases these days are just a list of things i have to disable
I genuinely don’t think I can ever return to stock Android after being used to GrapheneOS.
This sucks, I have vendor locked-in myself to Google phones because everything else is so horrible. Why is there no company that provides phones with just barebones Android, with regular security updates and without Google/AI crap???
They may be supporting more phones soon. Theyre talking with an OEM that may make phones that meet their requirements.
I will 100% buy a grapheneos phone when my current phone dies if it has a good camera and is reasonably sized.
Could be, that this won’t go on (at least with newer pixels), because Google decided to close some source code
Even then, if they manage to support the Pixel 9a for the entire life cycle I can just switch to that in a few years and still have a couple years of updates.
Plus I believe they could reduce the number of future supported devices which would make reverse engineering easier.
For example, a restaurant app could expose an ‘order food’ function, allowing users to place an order with a voice command without even opening the app.
No one seems to have any idea what to use this shit for, it’s always some ancillary bullshit that’s easier done with a few clicks.
Alexa tried it, and by and large the users had zero interest in placing orders with voice commands.
I just won’t ever even consider using an ‘app’ for a restaurant. give me a menu, and or a phone number and I’ll place my order like normal, else I won’t even bother if I’m forced to use an ‘app’ to get food. no thanks…my phone isn’t home for companies trash
