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Google blocks Android hack that let Pixel users enable VoLTE anywhere (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca
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[–] 62 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The downfall of Android (and the Pixels) is not entirely unexpected, but now progresses shockingly fast.
Damn, we need alternatives...

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The Furi Labs phone actually looks decent for a Linux phone. Outdated SoC, but probably good enough. Is Phosh actually usable now or is it still pretty janky?

    Also, gotta note that I hate how a lot of these Linux phone companies talk about having amazing security when they're actually talking about privacy. Security is definitely gonna be worse than Android.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Security is definitely gonna be worse than Android.

    How so?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Android has (as standard) stuff like sandboxing, SELinux, verified boot, FDE, etc. It's possible to get stuff like this working on normal Linux, but it's a lot of work (more for some things than others). Also the standard Linux solutions for e.g. sandboxing are just not as robust as what's provided by Android.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    My problem is they had this phone then released a Linux version and made it worse but just added a letter onto the name. I'll pass the screen is the thing used the .OST and they put in a worse one.

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