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What will you do after Android starts restricting FOSS apps? (reddthat.com)
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I mostly use apps installed from F-Droid, so I’m not sure how I’ll use the phone, except that it’s sometimes required as a contact method.

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[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No it's not. Not because of that it's too difficult but it's too much work on a weekly basis just to update your stuff.

I have no rooted phone because I have grapheneos but it should be possible to do it directly on your rooted phone with shizuku et al which wouldn't be that bad.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How's graphene been serving you? I've wanted to take the plunge for a while now and this no side loading bs has me looking into it again

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

Can just confirm the other comment

GrapheneOS is serving me very well
No problems (currently) with banking apps either

I'm very happy with it - although a real Linux phone would be really cool

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

Gos is good. It is a solid os. I like it a lot. I have a lot of freedom that I don't have on other phones. But it is also just android. other brands like samsung added a lot of goodies to their os. It is a phone, it works, it's alright. It took me a while to understand that graphene's exploit protection slows down apps. I disable that for all important apps like osmand where speed is crucial. Osmand is still slower than on an iphone 6. Do I have to use it security wise? No, but I like supporting it. Will my next phone have gos as well? Yes. It has no annoyance on it. There is no unwanted app or anything. That's amazing.