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.

brute force it with root

you literally cannot prevent root from doing anything.

Get a pocket pc, probably. And only use the phone for what strictly requires it.

It'll likely end up being more comfortable from a usability standpoint than it is now anyway.

We'll have to start a movement then.

BTW can anyone recommend me a good lightweight & offline capable RSS-feed reader from Fdroid ?

I'm planning to go Graphene but realistically until a solid third option such as Linux phone is able to break the duopoly I dont think we can do much as I doubt devs will update or release many apps with little take up. Probably 90 - 95% of apps on my phone are FOSS derived from outside Play store.

This is only the start I'm afraid. "Big tech" has far, far too much leverage. Google are effectively censoring apps, they will no doubt cave in to any government asking who has (or hasnt) installed a particular app that at some future date is deemed unwelcome. Between this & ill conceived online ID schemes about to be forced upon populations, various minorities are about to be marginalised even further.

Very concerning times.

It was the push I needed to start building my dream device. They say Linux phones aren't ready, and they aren't. But the Linux desktop on aarch64 has come a long way thanks to things like the Raspberry Pi so I'm currently working on a Mobian pocket laptop that can replace my phone entirely. You can find a Pixel 3a XL for around $100 with an unlockable bootloader, just don't expect a usable camera. Currently the tradeoff is either freedom of software with some missing drivers (USB host mode in particular) or using a distro like Droidian or UBports which is custom built to run on Halium and the android kernel and can't be easily modified/tinkered with.

i don't really use apps on my phone anymore other than for maps. i just my phone primarily as a phone.

Is SailfishOS good?

4/5g card in mPCIE slot until I source a more portable device to do phone things. Yes, there are m.2 options as well. If the supply chain eventually dries up, for expansion cards and/or FOSS phones, then I'll only communicate via my ISP or local mesh nets, until my computers break.

I'm already on LinageOS because my phone used to crash multiple times a day with the Android from Samsung.

I hope LineageOS will patch it out.

Of course this helps only so much when further diminishes the interest in F-droid or when Google decide to block chat apps and I can't use them with friends who aren't willing to install a different OS on their phone.

You can install with ADB, with droid-ify you can install apps with shizuku

My old Nokia is still in a drawer, I think with somewhat charge in it. Enough for what I use a phone.

I guess just don't by one of these "certified Android devices". Might become a selling point. Other option would be to run SailfishOS (buy a Jolla phone) or install Ubuntu Touch / Mobian and use Anbox.

Fuck i don't think i can unlock the bootloader of my xiaomi anymore...

I would love to go all in on one of the newer Linux distros made for phones. Haven't tried any yet.

I'll go back to Ubuntu Touch. I used it a year ago and it wasn't completely compatible with Fairphone. Now it is.