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Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 days (keepandroidopen.org)
submitted 6 months ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 30 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Fuck you Google. I won't do further updates on my Pixel and the moment I run into an issue I'll move operating systems or phones if required. Half my apps don't come from Google Play and I don't want the developers to have to register with Google for anything.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    is there a way to ACTUALLY disable them? I've attempted to change every option I can find (pixel 7 pro) and it just downloads them anyway. I'd love to try graphene but I am a fucking moron and I will 100% end up bricking my phone if I attempt to install it.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Grapheneos has a wonderful how to install procedure. I did it with a Linux Debian machine. It took several tries to get the bootloader right, part of that was I didn't know what I was looking for. Once your phone has the red triangle in the bootloader of the phone, the installer should recognize it, and the installer was awesome from there.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    still hard to commit to it when it's the only phone I have to use. maybe I can grab a cheap older pixel to test drive it on or something, I think pixel is up to 10? now but 7pro should hopefully last me 3-4 more years if I treat it right, as long as I don't fuck it up

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Not that I know of. I was just going to not install them.

    Actually I hear Graphene installation on a Pixel is nearly unbrickable and has a nice user friendly website.

    I watched a video of it and was reminded of the old Limera1n/Blackrain/etc IOS jailbreak days. There was one where you just went to a website and swiped to jailbreak then your idevice rebooted and you were jailbroken.

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