ok. I'll see how they're doing that. Anyway need a new test phone this year so maybe I can flash the current Graphene test phone with that, and see what's what.
Pubky fixes this. The ecosystem is based on progressive web apps, so it feels exactly like an appstore app, but runs completely inside a mobile or desktop browser.
As far as I can tell, the architecture is substantially better than Nostr, and it uses Ed25519 keypairs (compatible with Reticulum, Meshtastic, Meshcore etc.) so it's more secure and faster than Nostr. Relays are replaced with Kademlia (used by bittorrent) for a mathematically perfect mesh.
It's in early beta, so only basic functionally, but it's a nice community (100% humans) and the roadmap looks dope.
This should alarm anyone who still believes users should own their devices.
For years, Android differentiated itself from Apple precisely because users could install software freely. Hobbyists, open-source developers, independent researchers, students, privacy advocates, and small creators could distribute apps without asking permission from a trillion-dollar corporation.
That's too bad now.
This is not yet Apple-level lockdown. But it is clearly a movement in that direction.
Besides buying a new phone, is there anything I can do to not be affected by this and still use my phone?
https://e.foundation/
Are you using it? I was looking at their gitlab forge and it'll take me some time to understand what happens where across the 100s of repos there.
using it, happily
How often do you get updates?
for the os? rarely, a few times in a few years
ok. I'll see how they're doing that. Anyway need a new test phone this year so maybe I can flash the current Graphene test phone with that, and see what's what.
let us know the interesting stuff you find out
Yes Graphene OS offers that freedom
install graphene OS
But most phones cannot install Graphene.
Are there any more affordable alternatives than Graphene?
LineageOS https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
Graphene is free?
I mean the very limited range of phones that it can be installed on- they are all expensive phones last time I looked.
You can get a refurbished 7a directly from Google for under 300 USD: https://store.google.com/us/magazine/refurbished_devices?hl=en-US. It's currently supported and will be for a while I guess: https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
Pubky fixes this. The ecosystem is based on progressive web apps, so it feels exactly like an appstore app, but runs completely inside a mobile or desktop browser.
As far as I can tell, the architecture is substantially better than Nostr, and it uses Ed25519 keypairs (compatible with Reticulum, Meshtastic, Meshcore etc.) so it's more secure and faster than Nostr. Relays are replaced with Kademlia (used by bittorrent) for a mathematically perfect mesh.
It's in early beta, so only basic functionally, but it's a nice community (100% humans) and the roadmap looks dope.
pubky.tech
All MIT licensed...
https://pubky.tech/
https://pubky.app/
The 24 hour cooling off period is annoying af, infantilizing
And it still only applies to the Play Store.. just an f off and a dagger in the wound by Google
This should alarm anyone who still believes users should own their devices.
For years, Android differentiated itself from Apple precisely because users could install software freely. Hobbyists, open-source developers, independent researchers, students, privacy advocates, and small creators could distribute apps without asking permission from a trillion-dollar corporation.
That's too bad now.
This is not yet Apple-level lockdown. But it is clearly a movement in that direction.
Has anyone here tried Pinephone?
Is this across the whole Android ecosystem? E.g. non Google produced phones.
What about Fairphone?
Good
Damn! Better get graphene up and running!
mask off.
im hopeful it drives people away from "app" land
Eso es de preocuparse para aquellos que no lo asen cómo las reglas