Pay the $25 ransom little devs or else!
Linux phone time
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2026
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I really want Linux phones to catch on, but even watching demos, while they are making progress, it seems like they are still very far behind.
A phone for me (and many others) is more a lifestyle utility than a tech gadget, so reliability and compatibility is paramount. Things need to just work the first time every time for me to trust relying on it for important things.
I still follow the development of some projects and contribute when I can, but it doesn’t look like it’ll be a realistic option (for my use case at least) any time soon.
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Speaking of, the first waves of the new Jolla phone (with sailfish os) are apparently coming out now. I haven"t seen any posts about it on Lemmy yet, just an unboxing vid on YouTube
Literally the only one I like but I live in Hell and they don't seem to do too well with the carriers over here. Some of them are crazy, lwanting like nearly 2k, ain't happenin' chief.
Sailfish has been around since 2013. Hopefully the hardware is good 🤞
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For those who have the means, please consider donating to PostmarketOS, which has been slowly but surely pushing forward pure linux support for phones, and is the best longterm solution we have to completely circumvent Google and reclaim our hardware permenantly.
F-Droid is way more trustworthy than google pay.
Or Google Play, for that matter!
(I don't really care because I find the idea of hooking your credit cards to a third party to pay with your phone creepy to begin with, but are there any non-Google-Pay alternatives for GrapheneOS or Linux phones?)
I think it was a play on words
...or pay for that matter.
I understand wordp(l)ay, I swear! 😅
Unfortunately, theirs had a namespace collision with a separate actual product, so I decided to riff on that instead.
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Google claims the google playstore is safe and the only way to avoid malware. Ironically it was like 65-70% of all malware on android came from the playstore.
The dumb part is that this won't even solve the problem. It will be trivially easy to get dev certificates through a shell company. Anyone who is making money off scamware will have no trouble standing up LLCs faster than Google can ban them.
You still think it's about security while it always has been about control.
What does Google care? They're making money off of it now.
I didnt care really about switching OS's, but i do start to care when a fucking company gets abusive. Not only that. I get spiteful and petty. And that generally supplies enough fuel to get me through the pains of moving to a new system quite well.
When Windows 7 was discontinued, i used linux. Now im still using linux, outside of some work i did a couple of years back, none of my devices run windows.
Btw, i baught (with money!) Windows since 3.11 (Windows 3.11 - Win 98 - Win 2000 - WinXP - Win 7)
I mean - how many of us are here because we got spiteful and petty over reddit API shit?
Yeah but mobile has no alternative. It's 2 shit options
Sounds like a boon for other projects like Graphene, Postmarket, Lineage, Ubuntu Touch, etc
Make sure to donate and I hope the devs switch gears and leave Google behind.
It's why there's already talk that recaptcha only works with approved phones to lock out alternatives.
please drink verification can
I just want to know what is going to my fdroid apps when this comes in. Will they all get binned? Disabled? Just fail to load until I jump through the new "untrusted" sources hoops?
What gets me is that upstream linux has had this solved by trusting repo keys for years, why not let the end user be the trust arbiter
There will never be progress so long as device owners cannot unlock the bootloaders on their phones.
That's a law/regulation id love to see
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Here's the plan:
- Normal Cellphone
- Kobo
- MP3 player
- Thinkpad
- A Faraday bag
1 will make calls, texts, pay parking fees, let me into concerts and call 911, and nothing else
2 will allow me to continue to read anticapitalist books without being tracked
3 will allow me to continue listening to anticapitalist music without being tracked
4 will allow me to continue discussions about how shit capitalism is with my fellow scorned and continue saying Trump is a pedo and 8647 when I feel like tossing more darts at his mental image, use XMPP, IRC, TOR, Ygg, you know, the gang.
5 will allow me to ditch the fascists when I'm done playing the part of a normal citizen on a daily basis.
first results on a quick search for phones that allow bootloader unlocking.
Hopefully, all of the devs, (or at the very least, most of the them) move over to help speed up and improve the alternative OS's
It would be a beautiful kick in the face to Google if there a relatively quick mass migration from Android to any or all of those.
https://www.howtogeek.com/buy-these-brands-if-you-truly-want-to-own-your-phone/
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Don't you just hit that option to allow APKs that takes 24 hours to go through?
True but this option is completely provisioned by Google server side. At any point they could say
"Due to recently passed legislation, we can no longer offer advanced flow as this method now bypasses established federal laws regarding Age Verification. Identity verification will be required moving forward for unsigned apps."
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I can't wait to be interested in an app, and have to wait an entire 24 hours to install it on my own computer
At least until google removes that option as well
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