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Comment by ycombinatrix

3 months ago

This is crazy. I can't install my own apps on my own phone anymore.

I am gonna start carrying around a laptop with a 5G modem instead.

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dingdingdang  3 months ago

I'm thinking it's time for a 2nd phone (in my case old one from cupboard) to become the regular daily GrapheneOS enabled driver and then keep a modern Google(tm) updated one at home for all the "official crap" whenever needed. That way I can also separate banking / paypal / etc. from my carry phone with all it's various apps that I trust to varying degrees.

  • donmcronald  3 months ago

    This was the first thing that crossed my mind. If it’s not too much money and hassle I could buy a second device for GrapheneOS and tether to the cheapest phone I can get for the official ecosystem.

    Really though, it doesn’t have enough impact for consumers. If I get unfairly banned as a developer, no one even notices because that’s nothing more than an opportunity for another developer to step in.

    Individually we have no power :-(

    • A4ET8a8uTh0_v2  3 months ago

      Those are the moments I am starting to fantasize about starting a customer protection group that is sufficiently committed to follow through on organizing boycotts. Naturally, reality hits once you see average human on the road ( on a highway, full speed ). We might be lost a species.

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  • amlib  3 months ago

    I wonder if you could keep your "snitch" android phone home by instrumentalizing it, enabling you to access it remotely on your main linux/degoogled android phone. It might not even be that outrageous of an idea since there are tons of botfarms that are essentially stacks and stacks of legit phones being remotely controlled... the tech might be there already, just need to adapt if for something good...

  • UnreachableCode  3 months ago

    I'm curious why you need a phone for banking at all, at home as you say. Wouldn't a laptop suffice? Granted, not all banks have a web app these days

    • reorder9695  3 months ago

      Not for me at least, 3DS requires approval in an app on my phone. I'd love if the banks just used TOTP instead but no, I have to use their app, some of which don't work with an unlocked bootloader, so I have to have stock android

Tadpole9181  3 months ago

Don't worry, they'll stop letting you access your bank without an app soon enough. Gotta protect the children and what-not.

owebmaster  3 months ago

That's indeed what I'm planning to do but I'll buy a Steam Deck

  • ycombinatrix  3 months ago

    I have been looking into this as well. There are a few devices from GPD Win that are smaller than the Steam Deck but also have a physical keyboard.