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Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

LineageOS? Aosp is still under Google control, so maybe not.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think the problem is that this is one part of the puzzle. Samsung are doing the other half. Locked bootloader. I fully expect the bigger manufacturers to go with both for a "fully trusted platform". That's how they will sell it at least.

    The only question is, who will be making the unlocked phones and how much will they cost us?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    The only question is, who will be making the unlocked phones and how much will they cost us?

    Fairphone probably. To my knowledge Fairphone 6 can be unlocked and for the less technical, who want to degoogle, they also sell Fairphone 6 with /e/os installed. You won't get a competitive price for the hardware but rather a fair price for the hardware and under capitalism fair isn't competitive because the competition regularly resorts to exploitation of third world resources and cheap labor.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    My man I hate to say this but pretty sure lineage kicked the bucket last year, at least that what was happening when I had to change phones last year and Got the community notification

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Latest Github commits are within the past hour... Why do you think that it's dead?

    https://github.com/LineageOS

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Because there was a heartfelt goodbye and everything in the matrix server for it, last I was aware, yeah, they were saying it was dead. Good thing it's back though

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Matrix exists to contain people whose schizo power level was too high for discord and it has no other function. You can safely ignore 100% of all activity on matrix servers and that percentage is not an exaggeration.

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