Fairphone with Linage or e/OS, the best EU alternatives

Yeah I'm not holding my breath for this letter to do anything. I also find it funny that many projects among the signatures are probably the reasons for Google to be doing this in the first place (like FUTO, makers of GrayJay) since it could be argued that they are costing Google revenue and that's ultimately what they care about.

Petitions are one tool in a much wider toolkit. As long as they're even somewhat effective, I don't see it reason not to utilize them.

exactly that's why actions speak louder in these cases.

Technically the correct first thing to do is to make the manufacturers release the relock keys for relocking the bootloaders of extant hardware (say, the Moto G6 for an example). Having MicroG or whatever is not much useful if there's not going to be a feasible phone on which to install, so getting extant phones to become relockable with AOSP distros would be priority. And the way the economy si going and the RAM chips are not, forcing everyone interested to have to buy a whole new phone is not a smart choice.

Once the relock keys are out, fund All the Things. Lineage, Calyx, MicroG, what have you.

Believe it or not but the Pixel phones are some of the easiest to unlock and flash. You install graphene OS just through a web browser it's that easy. It is somewhat ironic given this move.

Aren't they also trying to break AOSP? I thought GrapheneOS said something about how Google has been trying to work against them.

Lets not act like this is an impossible task.

There is a process and actually multiple ways to accomplish this. Looking into, we might not even need to fork android, but just support existing alternatives.

I would think the first step is to fork the Android Open Source Project. use that as a base, start cutting out any links to google, fill in the gaps, etc. This is obviously not my realm of expertise but there is a path.

"170,000 tech workers lost their jobs in the U.S. in the 18 months prior to mid-2025"

Don't tell me we can't scrape together a team of experts and make this happen. Yes there will be barriers and push-back, but its either this or we just keep deepthroating google.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/the-fairphone-2-hits-five-years-of-updates-with-some-help-from-lineageos/

https://itsfoss.com/linux-phones/

I take [political] action by reaching out direct contributions to microkernel development. Folks that have no programming experience can also donate to folks already solving the problems Silicon Valley created.

That's how I politically roll.

Here is the list of brands that it will affect. For the West, it's pretty much everything.

https://www.android.com/certified/partners/

Not that’ll it impact you. No.

You can already kind of use them now, although they could still use some work from what I can tell.