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Your Google Android device is about to stop being yours (keepandroidopen.org)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/foss@beehaw.org
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/46445602

Is this still going to happen? What can we do?

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[–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to stop using Android. I don't need my phone. Sure, it's convenient and often helpful, but it's not something I can't live without. Fuck these assholes.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Are you sure you can't? Because when my phone was stolen last month, I came to terms with how much the modern world needs one to have one.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I guess we'll find out. If a viable option that isn't Android or iOS comes along, I'll use that. Until then, I refuse to play the game anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, I have almost no apps on my phone now. Breezy Weather, Firefox Focus, Comaps, Stratum for MFA, Signal, and a few other things. I rarely use any of it, except I check Breezy Weather once a day (better than anything I've found on the web). Signal seems to finally be removing the phone requirement, and I could move MFA to my password manager. I rarely turn on mobile data, and I get 6-8 days battery on my Pixel 9a running Graphene.

    But, it's really nice to have if I get lost when I'm in town. I can go from ruining my day, which being autistic, tends to snowball into a week or so, to pulling out my phone and getting everything back on track.

    That said, I used to constantly have my face in a reddit app, have YNAB and all my banking apps, and rely on it for just about everything. I don't need all that. I take my receipts home, I bank from my laptop, I bought a DAP for my music, Pocketbook for reading, etc.

    That said, I'd like to move music back to it once I get a phone with an SD card that will run an OS I'm happy with. I'm optimistic for the Motorola phone with Graphene support. And I'd like to use it to control MPD or Navidrome at home, start getting some Home Assistant stuff running with it for control, and spin up an open source alternative to YNAB that I can run an app for.

    It took me years to get to this point where I feel like I can start using it for actually useful stuff, and not be tempted to have it take over my life. Of course, now RAM and disk are too expensive for me to build the little hyperconverged cluster I want to run those services.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    You mean how others need you to have one.

    I put a clause in my contracts, and I also do it for social interactions: if anyone needs me to have a Google Party-approved phone, or a Google Surveillance-approved application, it's their responsibility to provide it to me.

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