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I regret the years I spent making fun of iPhone users for their walled garden.
I mean now we can also make fun of Stock Android users. Its sad that they can get away with this shit.
at this point, I don't wanna do that either. how long till it's impossible to find a phone on the market that you can burn a custom ROM to? if google is walling up the garden, it's not gonna be long till they stop letting Pixels be used for shit like GrapheneOS.
we need an open source and hopefully modular alternative to android, and we need it yesterday.
we need an open source and hopefully modular alternative to android, and we need it yesterday.
We have that. Android is an open source project. At least the AOSP-part is, but that's what GrapheneOS, for example, is based off of.
You can argue how 'free' that is. (being based on GPLv2 and the Apache License, imho it is pretty free); but no matter how free the software is, ddesn't prevent hardware manufacturers to prevent it from working on their devices in the future, by requiring some weird proprietary firmware bits.
What we really, really need, is libre hardware.
tl:dw?
The title I guess?
rtf~~m~~a
Not the end, this is just the end of the beginning.
Replicant and Linux phone distributions are very promising paths forward which just need a little bit of funding and user testing
Yep.
I am in the process of buying a phone to run Linux on. The App i am building (in Flutter) will even target Linux and Android Phones, so that i can jump ship if android goes to shit.
Interesting, I've not heard of replicant
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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