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Google Pixel alternatives? (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

submitted 7 months ago by haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm thinking of getting a second phone to ease off iOS. It has been good for productivity stuff but the closed off nature of the device keeps disrupting my plans. Everything is either expensive or ad ridden. (Except floccus, floccus is awesome)

So far I have read about graphene OS and am quite interested. I really despise google though. Any chance to use another device and put some linux flavor on it? I was playing with the idea of a pinephone but it seems to be nowhere near daily drivable, fairphone is starting at 580 €, volla phone (german) 450 €...

Some people said xiaomi should be rootable. But the amount of different phones is huge. The price range is awesome though. I was thinking sub 300 €/$ would be awesome so tinkering doesnt hurt me financially.

Disclaimer: I dont want to go full hermit mode with no sim and a faraday bag. I respect the opinion but thats not what I'm trying to do. I want to write some small apps for my phone and use it as a computer if needed. Calling, matrix and browser should work flawlessly.

Any ideas or suggestions? :)

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you're comfortable with the pros and cons of an unlocked bootloader, you might consider phones on the LineageOS supported hardware list.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Thanks for the heads up. Will check. Any particular reason for LineageOS instead of any other linux?

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Non-android mobile Linux is not mature enough yet.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I dont hear this often tbh. How do you figure?

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

By the fact that none of the apps I use day-to-day on my Android phone have viable alternatives on non-Android Linux.

I'd have to run Android inside a container on the mobile Linux which isn't the best experience and if I need to have Android running anyways, might aswell use regular android.

While it'd be cool to have, I don't really need a proper freedesktop userspace on my phone if I'm honest.

Android is also simply leagues ahead in mobile UI things.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 7 months ago

I can see why this would make things difficult. This is what I use regularly. I know most of these should have proper browser apps. Do you think that would not work on postmarket os or mobile ubuntu for example?

Voyager
Fluffychat
Homeassistant
Browser
kodi remote
nc notes
calender
twitch
bitwarden
maps
music

[–] narp@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I think you're mixing things up a bit. LineageOS, GrapheneOS etc. are not what people refer to as "mobile Linux", mobile Linux would be Ubuntu touch, mobian etc.

Btw. do you know about Sailfish OS?

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 points 7 months ago

I have heard of it but damn, the design is sleek! :)

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mainly because, of the Android variants that I've seen, it has the best community and device support.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 1 points 7 months ago

Sounds good. I‘ll check. I‘ll probably have to test multiple OSs anyway.