So what are good smartphones that use Android, but without the Google surveillance fetish additions?
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So what are good smartphones that use Android, but without the Google surveillance fetish additions?
@volpeon >good smartphone
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So what are good smartphones that use Android, but without the Google surveillance fetish additions?
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@volpeon >good smartphone
no such thing -
@volpeon basically nothing; best you can get is something with a good community to flash and degoogle it yourself
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@volpeon Anything that supports LineageOS or one of those other "custom ROM" Androids should work nicely. We're on Lineage personally.
Check the supported devices page for your distro of choice before you buy. (e.g. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/)
@volpeon also of note: Lineage at least used to not come with microG for Google Play Services emulation. Which means proprietary apps generally wouldn't work.
I think they changed that semirecently, but I don't know if it's included by default or not. So watch out for that during install if you need proprietary apps support. We don't really need that (and have no Google account to even get said proprietary apps with) but you might.
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@volpeon also of note: Lineage at least used to not come with microG for Google Play Services emulation. Which means proprietary apps generally wouldn't work.
I think they changed that semirecently, but I don't know if it's included by default or not. So watch out for that during install if you need proprietary apps support. We don't really need that (and have no Google account to even get said proprietary apps with) but you might.
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So what are good smartphones that use Android, but without the Google surveillance fetish additions?
@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip I wonder how well linux with waydroid would work (assuming your device is even supported)
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@volpeon absolutely none. all of them suck.
