Google is now officially a fascist tool, as its contemptible "Gulf of America" change shows -- and as removing progressive events from the calendar shows.
You MUST expect now that Google will gladly hand over your most personal information to the Trump regime or anyone the regime likes.
You never could trust Google, once it became an advertising company. You must now assume it is your likely enemy.
The gift of trump is making people realize terrible things that have always existed, that people pretend are new.
@TotalSonic @Haikyoneko @davidr @dangillmor
Fair, though for my part, I have come up with answers for most of those.
Battery life goes way up once one has dispensed with all the spyware. I have occasionally forgotten to charge my pixel and managed a whole second day on a charge. My old OnePlus running Lineage was similar.
There really aren't many manufacturers still supporting microSD, and I resigned myself to just buying the version with extra storage for my huge music library.
The headphone jack only hurts until you buy a set of bluetooth earbuds and wonder how you tolerated cords for so long.
I've run other things on other phones and honestly, once you learn the ins and outs, Graphene is a better experience. It's not *just* about the hyper-security. Just my honest review.
@TotalSonic @Haikyoneko @davidr @dangillmor
I **was** an audio snob, so I respect that. An accident with an eardrum sort of lowered my standards a bit and it seems my good ear has chosen to degrade itself somewhat to match over the years. Life π€·ββοΈ
I still demand better from my home equipment, but where my phone would be the source (car, out walking, etc), I'm more flexible these days.
@TotalSonic @raphaelmorgan @davidr @dangillmor I mean, if you buy any android phone, new or second hand, that runs stock Google android you're helping prop up Google's main business which is search/advertising. They hardly make any (or maybe no) profit on hardware. It's not their core business, but more of a loss leader.
In a perfect world there'd be a framework phone that runs de-googled android out of the box, but that doesn't exist. So you have to compromise somewhere.
@davidr @TotalSonic @dangillmor
GrapheneOS is what you want. They are here in Fedi too!
@davidr @TotalSonic @dangillmor
I own a Fairphone 4 and that's available as a non-google version.
Unfortunately mine isn't google-free but most apps can be replaced.
@davidr @TotalSonic @dangillmor GrapheneOS seems to be a somewhat usable option for a "half" degoogled phone (minimized data for Google, in trade for using only what you absolutely need out of the Google universe).
And it's probably even installable as a CustomROM on Pixels by non-geeks, using the Web installer.
@TotalSonic @dangillmor
I've changed these up to now:
Chrome -> Vivaldi and Opera
Google drive -> Dropbox (and soon Nextcloud)
Google search -> Duck
Gmail (don't really use that anyway) -> mail.de, posteo.de
maps -> maps.me
docs -> never used those anyway as I use libreOffice
youTube -> freeTube
Need to look into how I can move my calendar and also get google off my android.
@TotalSonic @dangillmor
One of my main problems is that I do advertising on google for my business. And to analise my ads I use google analytics.
If there is an alternative I would be happy to try it.
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