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Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 62 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

The moment I don't get to run my own stuff and F-Droid, I'll be switching off smartphones.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Dumbphone with tethering

A mini laptop/cyberdeck

A modern mp3 player

A small, modern point and click camera

hey gramps, where'd you get that gear, 2007?

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago

Damn I'm gonna need cargo pants to carry all this

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 10 hours ago

It's not a cyberdeck unless I have trodes and a halo, chummer. But some kind of netbook would be great.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 45 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'll use the ugliest command line only smartphone over fully walled garden android

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Real talk, are there ones like that?

Ive seen things like https://www.tindie.com/products/zitaotech/hackberrypi5-with-9900-keyboard/ and I REALLY want one....but they are always sold out.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 13 hours ago

That looks simple enough to build yourself.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago

I don't know, sorry

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'll probably go with one of the other roms on an older phone or possibly one of the Linux phones. It won't be exactly what I want, but it'll be better than their walled garden bullshit. That's precisely why I left Apple way back when.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Or we just... ignore them?

LineageOS and GrapheneOS could just be like "well, go on, then."

There's a market for everything and the FOSS and maker markets would eat up an open Android phone, even if the only apps you could install were community-created.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 10 hours ago

Those would be great if they worked on cheap handsets. TracFone users should have better security too