Take away your ability to install apps that aren’t stamped approved.
Oh wait, one did it over a decade ago and the other is about to start enforcing it.
Oh, and there’s pretty much only the two of them.
Is there any way to stop this?
Use graphene OS or deal with the “advanced flow” process once
I understand but the problem is my phone in not supported sadly
Pretty sure only pixels are, but Motorola was working on one. It’s fucking stupid that the only phone they support is manufactured by the company that is causing most of the problem. Their phone sucks too.
I agree I hope something changes in the future
Next flagship Motorola will have official GrapheneOS support. It will be very expensive. After that, hopefully more mid-level Motorola phones will be supported too.
OR - they could dumb down grapheneOS so that it can run on a lot of other phones ?? ? maybe? yes? I get the desire to be able to encrypt the entire drive - that IS important, but I think its more important to get the functionality of graphene provides to more people. A non-google based phone is pointless on only google based hardware.
The flagship Motorola also sucks, missing a bunch of features that even my $150 Samsung J3 had
You can still find LineageOS for your device. Check their wiki, they support A LOT of devices.
Well I guess I am not lucky because I even checked there and still my device is not supported.
See if there is an XDA page for your device. If it has a qualcomm chip, there’s likely some custom roms for it.
I searched and I found nothing, seems like I am cursed
Click the “Show legacy phones” or something similar. Some cellphones were supported, but no longer receive updates, so they do not appear in the supported list unless you explicitly tell the page to show them for you.
I check the lineage devices list very frequently, only Pixel phones are getting support mostly, maybe fairphone too
I bet there’s a single Fairphone in my whole country tho
I got a cheap used Pixel at the tail end of support, it’ll last a few more years. After that I hope there will be more Motorola phones than the currently planned.
That’s not really a hardware solution
Not really. The companies will continue removing end-user ownership, even if they move to alternatives. The profits must flow, the number must go up.
If people start to boycott it can make a change
Boycott the technology they have forced on humanity. There’s a growing number of basic tasks that require a device and there’s a large portion of the population that just doesn’t care enough to not fall in line.
True, no change can be done without a will that comes from most of the people, but that’s life, somehow you need to feel like a feather moved by other people’s choices.
Focusing on what we can do is a better choice.
With how apple shit is treated like divine ambrosia and, in many places, a status symbol, I seriously doubt any boycott against them will have any effect.
Android is like Windows in the 1990s. It’s fucking everywhere and literally too big to boycott. Most OEMs also prefer to play ball with Google and keep the phones locked because it’s profitable for them as well. Boycotting a specific OEM might cause some damage to them, but it won’t budge Google. It’s good that some companies are making phones that ship with more open android clones, but those phones are still too expensive for most people to buy
Capitalism made them so big.
I miss the headphone jack so much.
That’s still a hard requirement for me, but I don’t mind using older “tech”.
I totally get it but I have been pretty happy with the earbuds to be honest. I know that’s a bit of a hot take but I always wanted wireless in the past and I use my jabra’s on a daily basis. Still, I dont like the removal of useful features, we could easily have wireless earbuds and still have headphone jacks for fuck sake
Same. It took about a decade after the widespread removal of headphone jacks before wireless headphones became a reliable replacement. Now I can’t imagine being tethered to my phone.
>they took your bootloader unlocking >they took your sideloading(i think)they took your job(2027)
Next thing to take: unlockable bootloaders so you can no longer install an alt OS.
Pretty much done on most smartphones.
Then buy a fairphone or other phones that do allow it.
Installing GrapheneOS on my pixel was easy, but I had to go through hoops to get my old Motorola G7 running iirc PostmarketOS (now called Nura).
Had to install some program on my desktop so I could ask my connected phone for a series of unique character strings through the terminal, then enter them in a specific order on Motorola’s website where they check if your phone is applicable for unlocking bootloading. It says no, so I look around and find a list of carrier codes that indicate whether or not it should be, and mine should. I ended up finding some forum posts from years ago talking about how the website is wrong and lies to you, and that if you change the url that it gives for applicable devices to include your phone’s strings then it’ll correctly identify the device as applicable for bootloader unlocking. Finally got then to send me an email with the unique code for my phone, and I was able to follow the instructions to install PostmarketOS.
and then hardware gated LLMs forcing you to use goverment approved AI in your phone to do everything
what do you mean next? it’s already happening lol
Ooh, maybe a dedicated AI button right next to the power button that can’t be turned off or used for any other function that you accidentally hit all of the time.
Superglue.
Better yet not to buy such a phone in the first place.
My LG G8 all but got “upgraded” to this, it was a dedicated Google assistant button, right next to the power switch, and the assistant became AI. Thankfully, while you were unable to remap the button you could still just turn it off, I did that pre AI because I just never used assistant and kept accidentally hitting the button. There are a lot of things I miss about that phone, the AI button is not one of them.
They also took your FM radio
Cells phones outside the US could even record FM. All the technology that was kept from us because of things like copyright is staggering.
With wireless charging existing, I wouldn’t be surprised if they got rid of the USB port as well, and sold phones with no ports at all, just wireless everything.
And it will still be out of warranty for liquid damage, while a Casio with user replaceable battery is 100m resist.
If I had one wish, it would be for Casio to make a dumbphone
Not sure why this is a “shit post.” This actually happened.
My BlackBerry had a notification LED that I could set to different colors and based on the type of notification. Made it super easy to see if there was something I needed to look at without picking it up. I miss that.
My Motorola Moto E2 had a notification LED but for some reason it was disabled in software and I never saw it until I installed LineageOS. I was shocked seeing a random white light turning on under the bezel
Early Android phones had that, too. A very neat feature they got rid of.
They remove the math-based image processing and replace it with AI, making all your photos invalid as any kind of evidence.
Whoa, got an article or something? I’d love to read more about this
No article.
Just observing the images with “AI camera” phones having weird shapes when zoomed in.
Of course I don’t think they have made it all AI yet, but I have a feeling the current trend will make it harder to use as proof down the line.
If you hate cops, that honestly sounds like a good thing
Works the other way around too, though. Cop abuses can just be relegated to being AI doctored.
I don’t see how.
Any camera footage they have will be considered as evidence and any one of ours won’t.It’s the same as the “your word vs my word” logic all over again.
I miss the IR blaster so much, I used it constantly
Can you explain this to me? I’ve never heard of this as a feature and literally cannot tell if this is a joke or real.
it turned your phone into a universal remote. useful for when you’ve lost your tv remote and such
You can also screw with TVs in public locations which was quite fun.
I have it on my OnePlus Nord 5 but a few months back they killed the OnePlus brand in Europe and North America. :(
Now all that’s left of OnePlus is overpriced Realme phones and Oppo, which is outside of my budget…
Luckily this phone will probably last me the next 4 years or so, since I just bought it before they started killing the brand, which was not that long ago.
It was an IR led tied into the phone. You could record and send out IR signals to anything with a receiver like tvs, appliances, etc.
For a little while you could buy an IR blaster that plugged into a headphone jack.
I miss the IR blaster so much. It was great to not only be able to control my own devices, but also be able to change TV’s in waiting rooms or gyms when they were stuck on shit like Fox News.
Xiaomi phones have it. It’s great when you can’t find your remote control down the back of the sofa.
Xiaomi a different channel!
No more touch screens! You press a button to turn it on and you watch/look at/read whatever we give you to watch/look at/read! But first, point the camera at your ID and bank cards.
I lowkey kinda wish Fairphone would make a new phone that has an aux port for the craic. And an FM radio built in too. Use the aux port as an antenna like how older phones did before they stopped doing it.
I hate when people take away the freedom that people already have and claim it’s in the name of improvement. This applies in technology or anything.
