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Fuck this is going to cripple my phone so bad.
What about those 40$ meshnet devices for real use and a google phone you keep in a foil pouch until you need to bank?
I will push with my current phone, for a few years. Luckily abd installs could do the trick for a while.
For when this phone is failing I hope the new partnership between GrapheneOS and a phone manufacturer that's not google is already working and producing a phone I could buy.
I'm sure there will be ways to get around this even without a custom ROM. Would be better if it weren't necessary of course
I do not like to have to fight with every device I use every time i use it. I do not like having to hack everything I own just so it kinda-at-least-half works. This is effort and time and opposition that is being imposed on me. This is theft–not even in a cool way. This is an attack.
That fight isn't the fault of the device. Its the fault of corporations that purposefully gimp their shit from running on anything other than "approved" operating systems and devices. Which also happen to be offered by big corporations. Like George Carlin said, "its a big club, and you ain't in it."
For me, that fight is absolutely worth the trouble. I run exclusively Linux in my house, and even though there are some odd issues here and there, figuring it out and making it work on an "unapproved" OS or device is so much more satisfying.
Like I said
Yeah im riffing on that. Fuck these fuckers.
ADB installs are not going anywhere for now. So an alternative store could install packages with it via Shizuku(Obtainium and Droidify have this option AFAIK)
Droidify has? Nice, gotta check that setting
Working now, have to see how stable it is, seeing as it relies on the current network it seems
I've gotten to the point were I won't even buy a device unless it is either fully offline or I can swap the firmware
Just reinstall your OS. Problem solved.