Google fisting the whole world to advance their monopoly
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1242565/google-fisting-the-whole-world
Just switch to GrapheneOS or Linux at this point.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by beep@piefed.world to [deleted]
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Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sadly GrapheneOS only supports pixel phones and I refuse to give more money to Google.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Motorola is making a graphene os phone soon I think
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Buy a used one, that’s what I did. Google didn’t make a dime off of me.
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Buy a used pixel 2nd hand.
forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
LineageOS isn’t quite as hardline about the hardware having specific security features, and works on a BUNCH more phones. Maybe even your current one. If not, it’s a lot easier to avoid Google buying for Lineage support than for Graphene.
– Frost
7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Swappa.com buy used.
Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I didn’t know that. There is also LineageOS that supports a wider range of phones.
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I wish there were more phones that could run Linux.
nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Handheld cyberdeck running linux with cell service is my dream.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Bro. GrapheneOS is only for Google phones that you still have to buy if you don’t own one already. Motorola got support but so far 0 phones have GrapheneOS form their lineup.
Not to mention, most android phones are either Samsung or Chinese brands from which none will ever have support from GrapheneOS. Best you can do is get lineageOS or something and be lucky that these custom Roms have support for your device.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Buying a Pixel is just giving Google more money. Flip phone here I come.
nroth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They don’t make money on the hardware, only on PixelOS
Fontasia@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
This is your yearly reminder that Steve Jobs did not want an app store on the iPhone, he believed websites could provide app like experiences.
Apple to this day reject or severely limit the Progressive Web App experience despite being on the consortium handling the standard.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So is GrapheneOS pretty much the play here?
Nobody get all weird and hyper-niche, I want the easy FOSS one that the most people use, so I can find answers in forums for issues. The Linux Mint of phones.
tabris@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been using graphene for over a year now, had used stock android since the HTC g1. Honest answer, graphene is stock without the annoyances, and finer grained security configuration. Major frustration is banking apps/no google pay, but since I switched banks (which I did because my old bank funds Israel) the new app works perfectly fine, so your milage may vary. Lack of google pay is inconvenient only if I leave my wallet at home, which is rare. Otherwise, it’s rare that something is broken just because it’s graphene, and if it is, the forums usually have the answer.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh god…are we about to enter the era of 5000 different phone distros, that when it comes down to it are really all the same???
ZorinOS and Mint are basically the same thing. And really so are all the other debian distros.
There’s like 3 types of linux. Everything else is just an offshoot of an offshoot. Personally I think it’s severely damaged linux’s popularity. And slowed it’s advancements.
I hope thats not how phones go.
delcaran@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately this is the beauty and the bane of choice and freedom: everyone has it’s own opinion of what is good and what is not, and can easily make it so, fragmenting the offer and confusing the newbie losing it to the less free alternative. Works in Linux, works in politics.
There is no way to have freedom of choice AND a united front against the alternative.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s the nice thing about standards, there are so many to choose from.
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The phone that you bought with your money, likely made by a third party, and sold by another party.
None of them are google.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Man if that happens graphene is going on here so fast.
Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Fuck it, consider your phone an applaince forced upon you. Take it and your phone bill off on your taxes as a business expense. SMS, calls, nav. That’s all, don’t give them anything more and tether a second device like a laptop for chatting with us degens.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Serious question : I wanted to start setting up phones as home/local servers using termux and second hand phones. Can I still achieve that after september?
frog@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Termux is on the Play Store so if you are logged in to each phone with your Google account, you shouldn’t have a problem. I think…
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean yes… but I was thinking of removing the os as well? eh whatever, you’re right.
arbitrary_sarcasm@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I did not expect to see a meme involving a malayalam actor on here.
Epp@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
In this analogy, is fisting good, or bad? Or maybe it’s not an analogy…
goodboyjojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you want to degoogle graphineos sounds good.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2 weeks ago
Google fucking their own market. I will use a half working Linux phone before I submit to this. Something’s gotta change with these fascist US corpos owning everything.