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"But my friend runs a PinePhone as a daily driver" (lemmy.ml)
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[–] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s a valid point, but unfortunately your non bullshit options are limited to replacing the OS with something like Graphene or Lineage.

The powers that be REALLY want your data.

[–] adhdplantdev@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I thought you could just use the Android open source project? I thought the tracking was mostly baked into Google's flavor of Android not the open source product

[–] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

I don’t know if a phone that uses the open source version as base. Usually they build off open source or google and add in all the manufacturer/carrier bloat. For me to get off One Plus’s built in OS I had to go through this whole process on their website to get the code to unlock the boot loader.

I have lineage os as a replacement and it’s really cool. My mobile internet stopped working on it though :( my next phone is gonna roll with Graphene

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

lineage is significantly more polished than aosp