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One of the happy accidents that has come from American technofascism is this rennaisance of open-source programming and development and a renewed interest in digital sovereignty. People have been building alternatives to what the tech oligarchs have been cramming down our throats, and it's not only more secure and more functional, it's getting more and more accessible to the public.
Take Graphene and PostmarketOS for instance. They're both extremely easy to install on the right hardware. I haven't had any complaints yet! :)
I bought a Pixel 9A and a Pixel tablet and installed Graphene because I wanted control over my own device, no unnecessary spyware apps and no forced AI and the ability to just install what I want and both have been great. Everything I've needed has basically just worked (a couple of apps required me to change a setting) but there's a few major outliers to that 'it just works' that fortunately I don't need - like the VW app. I was shocked at how easy it was to install and by Lemmy standards I'm not very tech savvy (although I had an issue with a Linux update on my computer last night and was able to get it working again, so by normal people standards I'm a hacker lol).
Right now it's fantastic but I worry Google's crackdown on "sideloading" is going to hinder that open source adoption - anyone who has already done so is probably going to be less squeamish about a couple extra steps and whatever bullshit warnings Google throws at them but for new normies I worry they're more likely to be scared off. It's also a sign Google is going to take more steps to fight our rebellion - I did just find out the Pixel 11 will be getting Graphene so I was going to say that's another Google attack but good news on that one, initially they thought it wasn't going to be possible.
How's Postmarket compare to Graphene? I went with Graphene because fewer development targets are usually a good thing for the end user, but that tablet end of support is closer than I'd like...