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I assume everyone on Lemmy uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 or LineageOS flashed onto a LG Tribute with zero Google apps, and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?
I’m just a scrub using stock Android. Am I the only one?
Samsung Z Fold7
Nope. I habe GrapheneOS on a Pixel 9a with everything backed up over NextCloud on a headless Ubuntu rackmount server.
You were waaaaay off 😆
Well google just renabled automatic app updates and it broke a bunch of my apps because I get the pre adware/spyware/buyout version of apps. So ive been in the market the last week for a graphene phone. Seems pretty likely ill get a stock android phone thats supported by grapheneOS and flash it myself, im uncomfortable with buying a pre used $200 phone.
/e/os on Fairphone 4
The remaining question is: Do you run your own Nextcloud for backup or do you use the one provided by Murena?
We’re still working on publishing the results of the census we ran a few months ago (sample size of around 600, where most users were from our Lemmy/Piefed instances)
Here is the graph for the phone question with our mostly cleaned data:
Super cool!
GrapheneOS on a Pixel 6a
Xiaomi 13t, 1TB storage, Leica camera, bought used.
It’s very good, except the insanely aggressive clean up policy; you watch youtube on FF, switch out to check something and back, youtube is gone…
With 8(+8) GB RAM i could probably use it as a daily Linux driver but there is no linux for it. Will switch to like graphene when I can.
/Sorry infodump
iPhone 15 here. I gave up on android because Google seemed obsessed with borrowing the most annoying UI features from iOS and just doing them poorly.
Now I’m on the other side and don’t like it here either.
Next phone will be a dumb phone, I think. If my toys always make me angry they’re not good toys for me.
Samsung Galaxy S9+
I’m unwilling to get a more modern phone because of all the AI bullshit being shoved into them nowadays. Unlike most of Lemmy, I’m not smart enough to install and fully configure GrapheneOS to work without hiccups. So I remain with this old phone until it quits on me.
/e/os on Fairphone 6
Stock android on a Pixel 10. I’m far too lazy to mess with installing operating systems when I don’t absolutely have to.
Stock Pixel, I do have Nextcloud and other stuff, but I usually don’t want to risk bricking my phone and I’m okay with some of the tradeoffs of using Google things, not okay with being shackled to it though so I do have some alternatives setup ready to switch but for the most part I’m okay with the tradeoffs.
Pixel 8 on lineageOS with mindtheGApps, I unfortunately still use some Google stuff, I am slowly de-googling. But I at least get slightly more privacy this way.
Old-ish iPhone. Will be getting replaced with a FairPhone, I think.
iPhone 17
lineageos on Sony xperia 5 iii
Just switched to Graphene on a refurbished 10 Pro XL
iPhone 14 Pro
GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a, Google apps in a separate profile, local backup to a separate drive using rsync, notes/calendar/notes synced to nextcloud running on hetzner VPS. So pretty much same as everyone else here.
Motorola with their nearly-stock Android.
Excited about upcoming Motos with Graphene, though =]
Same for the excitement. I’m just hoping they don’t release an ‘innovated’ device no better than a Pixel. There’s been a growing trend of even Motorolas coming with less and less. It’s more than a little alarming.
I cann’t afford a pixel, what would make them think I’d be able to afford a new, flagship motorola? Why won’t they support other populat phones?
Because they don’t meet the security requirements. The solution for affordability is a used or refurbished Pixel.
I keep buying motorolas because they’re rugged as fuck. I get a new one every 3-5 years. They’re all the same-ish these days, and rarely come with any sort of incentive or discount, so it doesn’t make sense to refesh too often. I try to get my money’s worth from my devices.
Can’t tell you how many samsungs my kids have broken, but both of their motos still work.
Can confirm, Motorola makes some pretty rugged phones. I had my T-Mobile Revvlry+ (based on the Motorola G7 but different camera) for like 7 years.
After the power button literally took a shit, I opened it up to see if I could fix it. Somehow they managed to seal the buttons in an aluminum block, completely non-serviceable, so I just kept using it for another 6 months or so, using the charging cable to wake it from sleep.
Knowing the phone was on its way out (oh yeah I forgot to mention the busted screen), I backed everything up, got sick and tired of the thing, and broke it in half by hand. And oh boy that phone was tougher to break than I thought…
the power button literally took a shit Eww.
iphone 17. never used android because i grew up with ios and i really am attached to the ui. im really not interested in switching to graphene or a pixel, at least until it gets better or until iphone is shown to seriously be unsafe. stock iphone is safer than stock android and i’ll stick by my opinion, but i know almost everyone in the privacy space disagrees with me.
Their lockdown mode is very good and I think you should be fine as long as you don’t have all your data stored in Apple services like Apple Notes and Photos that you can’t install on Android, though OS switching apps and the iCloud website mean it is possible to get your data out.
Fairphone 6 with Android. Waiting for Motorola+GrapheneOS phone.
I honestly don’t know. When my phone dies I go to the nearest phone store and ask for the cheapest android phone they have in stock. They ask me what brand I want, what features are important to me–cheapest. They warn me that the phone isn’t as good as OtherPhone’s–cheapest. And the battery…–cheapest.
If I had to venture a guess I’d say it’s a Redmi? And I suppose it’s bad.
It was 150€ 4 years ago. I can’t fathom sinking 500€ on a phone.
/e/os/ on a Motorola One 5G Ace.
iPhone with plans to switch to GrapheneOS on a pixel soon.
iPhone 12 Pro
Galaxy A14, which was the only new phone I could afford for 140 Euros (+ 50 Euros for the 512 GB microsd card) that offered the longest security updates.
Thought of getting an used Pixel 2XL and install (now defunct) divestos on it, but then the battery would be certainly dead and didn’t want to risk replacing it myself.
Lineage OS on a pixel 8
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 33 minutes ago
LG G2 (2013) with LineageOS
imma use it till 2038, i even have spares