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Mine ain’t.
GrapheneOS is go brrrr
We have to enjoy it while we still can
Let’s face it, unfortunately the GrapheneOS developer team depending exclusively on Google hardware is a terrible thing in the long run, I bet that overnight Google will close the siege with the Pixels or possibly even abandon them so the whole community will have no alternative
Google may also abandon Android, and there is no guarantee that another major company would keep it. I have real concerns about the Android model
PS: I know the hardware requirements that GrapheneOS has to support a device
It’s a reasonable stopgap until Linux smartphones are ready. I don’t need much, just regular phone features (phone, SMS/MMS, data, etc), decent battery life, and decent audio. Give me that and I’ll ditch my Pixel.
And honestly, I could probably switch today if forced.
The problem is that everything is so reliant on apps nowadays. Paying for parking? There are multiple apps for that. Want to make payments on the go? Gotta use the banking app. Want to buy a bus or a train ticket? Download the app. Appointment with a dentist or a doctor? Download our app that has 500 built in trackers! Here in Scandinavia It feels impossible to live without a smartphone and these stupid apps. At least make a web app so that I don’t have to download spyware. I would love a linux phone, but if it isn’t compatible with these apps I might as well just get a Google Pixel running GrapheneOS.
If they want my money they’ll change that.
The way things seem to be going these days, they’d rather have your compliance.
They can have my ass.
Just say no. I use a web browser for 90% of things, and just avoid stores that force an app down my throat. I don’t have a single store-specific app on my phone, and it’s glorious.
I use GrapheneOS, and it’s surprisingly fine. Most things still have a functional website.
stopgap until Linux smartphones are ready.
Got a time machine? You can go back to when we had a Linux smartphone.
…because we already had one.
Which? Open moko?
Every modern “Linux smartphone” I see has fundamental issues, like:
- incomplete MMS support
- crap audio
- unreliable wake from sleep for calls and texts
- crap battery life
I just want basic phone things to work well.
I’m so fed up that I’m about to go all in on linux smartphones as long as phone, sms and data work. Everything else. Guess I don’t need it. To my knowledge those things do work. I just need to see how solid they are.
I’m ready for Linux Phone. No more of this big tech bullshit.
Yes, please this. Current phones like the PinePhone just need a bit of polish and then I’m ready to go.
The thing is, how do we bring that about?
I’m not sure Pine64 has a goal of bringing a product to retail readiness; the PinePhone was getting there, then they released the PinePhone Pro which broke a lot of the work done…
Idk. I don’t have the expertise to do low level work like battery tuning or fixing audio with any kind of efficiency, but once that work is done, I’d like to help get apps ported/created.
I’m not sure who to throw money at or whatever.
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Its never coming to mass market in a user friendly package
Personally it doesn’t need to be user friendly for me to use it, just have decent specs. Like at least a flagship phone from 2019 kind of specs. All the Linux phones are unbearably slow and have crap cameras and battery life.
Yeah but it needs to be user friendly in order get adoption and support. How many tech pieces are lost because they cant find a market.
Im in agreeemnt that I just need a camera, phone text and browser mainly.
Cool, I still won’t “hey” anything since all these voice things are janky and privacy nightmares anyways.
I’ll consider using it when I can rename it as “asshole”
“Don’t call that dog “lifesaver;” call him “shithead.””
‘Hey Asshole!’
beep
Old Man’s War reference?
Come on AI bubble burst already
I don’t think I’ve found a single use for Gemini it either refuses any questions I ask or just can’t do the task. I think everytime I’ve tried something I’ve resorted to using a different llm. Google has really lost its tech edge imo.
I only use Google Assistant to set timers and alarms. I tried it on Gemini and it said it couldn’t do that.
I asked it a question about PETG settings for a 3d printer and it told me to RTFM, but way wordier
I recently used Gemini just for fun, to help me find an old Android game that’s not on Google Play anymore. It was literally useless even though I described the game with a lot of details.
DuckDuckGo’d some details and 10 seconds later I was playing the game.
Oh man! What was the game?
Ah, curious, eh? :P
Its name is Chimera Recollect.
Well I have an idea for a new controller
The best features of my phone are AI… in that they are already installed and now called something new. Google on tap is now some AI bullshit.
Gemini auf die Eier
My life for Eier.
Wie viel kosten die Eier?
Alles.
Brilliant!
Not to be confused with the gemini protocol.
If I had know the level of shit from google when I retired my previous 8 year old phone, I would have picked degoogled version of Fairphone.
That is what I have! And loving it. Admittedly the Fairphone 3 was quite slow and annoying when I got it, but with LineageOS and some changed settings I’ve actually never had a better phone, or felt better about my phone.
I’ve never gotten 'Hey Google" to work properly when the phone is locked. And my phone is always locked except when I’m already using it, in which case it’s just easier and less awkward to hold down the activation button.
It’s funny because I remember early on devices like the OG Moto X had mid-tier specs but they made sure the OK Google worked with screen off. That was like 10 years ago now wtf
