Good Video. Shame it couldn't be embedded. Drop over to Peertube to watch it.

For those new to the process, the best general resource for instructions on how to unlock your phone’s bootloader and flash alternate AOSP ROM’s or non-Android OS’s is https://xdaforums.com/ Please note that not all carriers and oem’s allow you to unlock the bootloader though, so choose your device carefully for this.

You will also most likely need a PC (desktop or laptop) with adb & fastboot on it. These are apps used in the terminal, but you only need to copy and paste a few commands into them to use it.

If you have a Google Pixel then best option is Graphene - https://grapheneos.org/

For other devices you can use a “degoogled” Android ROM and get apps from the open source F-Droid app store - https://f-droid.org/ Some choices for this are: Lineage - https://lineageos.org/ crDroid - https://crdroid.net/ /e/os - https://e.foundation/e-os/ Iode - https://iode.tech/iodeos/

OR use a a true alternative mobile OS. Options for this are: Ubuntu Touch - https://www.ubuntu-touch.io/ Sailfish OS - https://sailfishos.org/ Mobian - https://mobian-project.org/ Postmarket OS - https://postmarketos.org/ Plasma Mobile - https://plasma-mobile.org/ Droidian - https://droidian.org/

You can also purchase devices with alternative OS’s already preinstalled from: Volla - https://volla.online/en/devices/ Jolla - https://jolla.com/ Fairphone - https://fairphone.com/ Murena - https://murena.com/ Furilabs - https://furilabs.com/ Brax - https://www.braxtech.net/

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you have not answered the video title question. the answer is not yes, the answer is HOW.

• also lineage gapps is not treated as system apps. you can disable them in the app list.
• you havent talked about the endless struggle of spoofing
• you havent talked about eos being just a glorified and outdated microg lineage
• you havent talked about where people can ask about their ticket, banking, gov app compatibility, cause this is the most important thing.
• ypu did not talk about debloat without changing from stock, using custom dns stuff

sorry, but this is even far from the tip of the iceberg. also why would you put black logos in front of a black background...

Great video to introduce new folks into the topic!

8:58 lemmy spotted.

Why is a pixel able to 'de google'? Is, possibly, the hardware designed to do the snooping despite the OS? 🤔 Work harder to degoogle older phones!

Are there Linux phones that need to be deGoogled?

No, sadly, just speculation as to why there seems to be an OS to get away from a company, but it's specifically for that companies phone and doesn't convey to different manufacturers phones- an oddity to me

I have GrapheneOS. It is sandboxed.

Do not mention Ubuntu or E/os

Haven't read article yet, but my experience jumping to Graphene: it was surprisingly easy, but I'm a tech nerd who already understands a lot / has reps and sets on digging through documents to learn. Its definitely not one-for-one swap with Android and there are some minor inconveniences I put up with that some in my family would never tolerate.

Overall: doable and worth it. Expect at least a small learning curve as you do it.

Yes

Recently lent a family member an old phone and took a chance by leaving GrapheneOS on it. Of course they reinstalled all the google apps but it's cool to see they can still get some benefit without major issues.

the biggest problem is banking and government apps that require strong play integrity... this kills the custom rom

there's just no reason to have gapps installed even on a manufacturer rom unless you really need the google safetynet shits

Which OS can easily be installed on an HMD skyline.

"Yes"

Yes

No please bro don't bro we just need one more data point bro

Fuck yeah!