Build a time machine and go back in time to stop WebOS from being sold to HP.

Google can't control the device if you're not running Google. GrapheneOS will still work like before, allowing you to run the apps you want. But the jury is still out on how long... I hope we can have a long term GrapheneOS solution regarding hardware.

Quite frankly im going to keep using GraphineOS, it doesn't really matter for me how much Google restricts AOSP code or sideloading. As much as I care about open source I need something secure and reliable.

Slowly switch to Linux devices, or dumb phone, and learning to adapt happily living without some features, but also without control and censorship :)

Keep waiting for a Linux phone that actually works as a daily driver.

DeGoogled Custom ROMs

Start giving easy to follow de-googling instructions when and where you know them, people.

The bigger and more thorough the head start, the better.

Well because of this, I bought a new phone and am now using GrapheneOS. I'm hoping to last at least 5 years with this, and hopefully by the time I want a new phone, grapheneos will have made a deal to have more compatible phones.

I won't do anything because I've not used a "certified device" in years...

Be fucked? I don't know I already hate most phones on the market and I'm going to need to buy a new one at some point, not looking forward to it...

I only run free/libre Android forks, so I don't care.

I'll just adb install those same apps from f-droid. But my hope is that I will be using mobile linux more and more as a daily-driver, until it eventually replaces Android 100%

I'm gonna get a linux phone. I used a flip phone and windows phone for a long time. I don't actually need any of this bullshit.

GrapheneOS for as long as it s available, then probably PostmarketOS for that Nokia N95 experience

I don't have to do anything. I use GrapheneOS btw.

Continue using a custom ROM.

If more brands start locking down their devices I'll have a conundrum, and it'll start being about antique hunting. More apps requiring an "approved" OS would also do it, but geopolitics will stop that from going too far in the near future.

would love it if the community could fund and get a way to create a desktop app (linux, etc) that would connect via adb and sync apks and other apps. just move f-droid and alt app stores to an old school "itunes" method.

If we can, donate to the devs. Let's supercharge the evolution / revolution.

I mean, unless there's some alternative that banking apps and such will work on there really isn't much you can do right?

Fight it as long as I can with my current fairly new phone. I assume that update by google would require an OS update, not a google play update. I might just not update my OS until I get a new phone.

If I'm lucky I won't need to update for a few years and an awesome linux phone will be available. If not then some de-googled android phone.

Sony update fails anyway, because i froze a non-essential app too much. Oh noes, my phone could be hacked with physical access, in a few years! But by then the phone is in their Open Firnware program and it's back to a custom ROM again.

The apps are regularly updated of course.

I have on my old phone still a custom Android /e/OS. It's a “deGoogled” variant of Android 12 on my S7 Edge. And if I ever buy a new phone again, it will be a direct Linux operating system (I know that Android technically uses Linux as its Kernel) or again an ungoogled custom Android. But as someone who doesn't do much with the phone anymore, I probably won't.