Drip. Don’t give companies menstrual data at all ☺️

Obtainium. Aurora Store. Accrescent. Sideloading.

I’m typing this via GrapheneOS and I don’t at all feel like I’m living 10 years in the past lol.

Even if I was, at least the internet would be a less shitty place than it is now, there would be almost no LLM/AI crap, I wouldn’t constantly have to be as vigilant against big corps datamining my privacy as much as I am now… Actually, 2015 was a pretty decent time compared to now. Got a time machine?

My main point is

Android also runs Google play services

is incorrect as a general statement about Android. I used GrapheneOS as an example but there are plenty of other Android ROMs that also don’t come with Google Play Services or any Google at all.

GrapheneOS

I know this is an older thread but I don’t know why you’re getting down voted. I am long haired and always move my hair out of the way bending over and whatnot. I love long hair but I don’t like it getting in my eyes or tickling my nose so it becomes habit to hold it out the way of my face.

This is very cool. I run a website for a charity and this had certainly made me reflect on how I could reduce its power consumption (even with it hosted on 100% renewable power servers)

New Zealand still uses SMS predominantly.

I wish I could use Matrix on my phone without it eating my battery 🫤

I essentially did this with Facebook. People still fucking contact me on Messenger.

I’m am ex web dev/des and still maintain some websites for non-profits. I think you underestimate the human stupidity factor. I already have to front an infuriating level of stupid questions and problems that people have caused themselves by not following the most simple of directions. Do I like JavaScript? No. Do I wish I could completely ditch it? 100%. But people are stupid. And without it’s use, I would be handling even more CS than I am now. The average person expects a website to act a certain way and without that they lose their minds.

Oh look, I can get Google search results without using Google. And my privacy and sanity is protected.

This is such an underrated comment for such an important point.

And Obtainium for open source apps. I use Aurora only for apps I can’t get via Obtainium.

Replying to this excellent comment on a refurbed (no money to Google) Pixel 7 with GrapheneOS.

Setup was definitely more complex than a spyware android phone (I went from a Samsung Galaxy) but once its set up, it just works and there’s no way I’d go back to anything else.