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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?
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.
I use Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 4 with Nextcloud backup (self hosted).
You are lemmy
/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?
I don’t have any cloud backup. If I had to, I’d probably use a self-hosted solution.
Nope. I habe GrapheneOS on a Pixel 9a with everything backed up over NextCloud on a headless Ubuntu rackmount server.
You were waaaaay off 😆
Just switched to Graphene on a refurbished 10 Pro XL
Pixel 9 with Graphene OS. I don’t really bother with backups besides my personal photos since there’s nothing critical on my phone. But I use immich for photos hosted on my unraid server.
I do have two backup Raspberry Pis, one at my house and one at a friend’s, that my photos and other critical data is backed up to daily.
+1 for immich and local hosting.
I never understood backing things up to your own house. Like, if my house burns down I’ll lose my phone and my backup.
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.
If you actually want to do it, have faith in yourself. It’s not that hard if you read the guide and watch a YouTube video or two. You’re probably smarter than you give yourself credit.
If you want some help with installing, I can try to help.
/e/os on Fairphone 6
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.
Graphene on a Pixel 8a. One of the few currently viable options, in my eyes.
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 got a second hand pixel 7a for £90 supported until 2028 on grapheneos. Switched to a 9a now though.
iPhone 14 Pro
Sony Xperia 1 IV. Their naming scheme is terrible.
Main reason is because I wanted a future-proof, flagship phone with a headphone jack and micro SD card slot. Both have proven very useful, and I am still kind of in shock that most manufacturers have dropped them.
Stock android. Still using the NoVa launcher because I haven’t had the free time to try out others, plus my pi-hole seems to block the ads they have been introducing for now.
The Xperia has a weirdly narrow screen. I like it in a vacuum better than todays phablets, but I think the occasional webpage scales weirdly.
GrapheneOS on a Pixel 6a
Same!
There’s still over a year of OEM support left with official support etc, but have you started thinking about what to use after that? A newer pixel? Motorola? Something else entirely?
Fairphone 6 with Android. Waiting for Motorola+GrapheneOS phone.
Fairphone 6 with e/OS
I wish. Using a pixel 6 here, not looking forward to when I need to replace it.
Same here, the software updates situation is so dumb
iPhone with plans to switch to GrapheneOS on a pixel soon.
Lineage OS on a pixel 8
I need an SD slot and headphone jack so I’m on a Motorola g 25. I got it a couple months ago. It’s pretty good so far. I chad an LG v20 prior to that.
S24 FE. I hate all the recent changes Samsung has been doing but this phone should last me until 2030 at least, probably more. I’m also the only person on Lemmy who likes OneUI, and I’m OK with that now that all alternative launchers are enshittifying.
By the time I need to replace it, the market will probably be in an entirely different place and maybe even some Linux versions could be more viable.
I use Immich, bitwarden, mega, and Tuta. Which covers the backup of everything.
S24 Ultra. Will be my last Android with the way things are going.
Being on an iPhone for 11 years and then going to Android was a jaw dropping experience.
But now no more sideloading and Nova Launcher went to shit with ads after the owners sold (out).
The FOSS launcher Lawnchair is actually pretty great. Took some setting up, but now it does everything nova did for me.
Librem 5.
Cons: Storage and RAM small.
Pros: I haven’t seen a single other phone I would rather own. Android and iOS are dumb as hell. Terrible OSes, in my opinion.
I want a Liberty Phone but can’t justify the money. This works well enough for me. I will almost certainly be buying the L5 successor.
How does it do as a daily driver? You can do banking? Run random Android apps, etc?
Nope.
Well, I don’t use any banking apps, personally. My understanding is that they don’t work under Waydroid.
Other Android apps mostly work fine in Waydroid, so long as they don’t need access to GPS or camera to work properly.
I removed Waydroid a while back, though, as I only needed it for one app and Waydroid took up almost 1/3 of the storage on the phone. It just wasn’t worth it, and I am happier to be rid of the Android ecosystem anyways.
I should mention that the Linux phone life is NOT for everyone.
I should also mention that battery life is still not anywhere close to competitors. Camera is meh but improves with updates.
For my use cases (Phone/SMS/MMS, Lemmy, Mastodon, and a few other apps), it works totally fine and has proven to be reliable enough for almost 3 years. It gets better with age due to updates.
Nothing Phone 1, one of the best phones I’ve ever used, utilise the glyph system often and hope to upgrade at some point to a Nothing Phone 3.
Plus it’s not from the US, so perfect for me.
Nothing phone 2 here, been a great phone but I bought a new CMF phone and had to remove a bunch of forced AI bullshit using adb so I don’t think if buy another nothing phone. Still a nice piece of hardware sadly
Also on nothing 1. Had a pixel 5 before. This is much better. For my next phone I want something degoogled. Not sure if nothing got me covered threre
I’m thinking of a nothing 4 to replace my pixel 6. Glad to hear that so far nothing is decent, minus the AI
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.
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.
Switched from an iPhone Air to a Pixel 9a with grapheneOS.
Way cheaper, safer, I have learned a ton about security and self hosting and learned to love computers again.
Refurbished pixel 7.
I originally wanted to install graphene, but I like the stock firmware enough to stick with it.
LG G2 (2013) with LineageOS
imma use it till 2038, i even have spares
How do you deal with outdated CAs?
i don’t use the internet much with the phone, and the OS isn’t that outdated since i don’t use the stock rom.
otter@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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:
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Broiled_Tofu@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Super cool!
fizzle@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Is jola postmarket?
illi@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
They use their own SailfishOS