I assume everyone on Lemmy uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 or LineageOS flashed onto a LG Tribute with zero Google apps, and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?
I’m just a scrub using stock Android. Am I the only one?
iphone 17. never used android because i grew up with ios and i really am attached to the ui. im really not interested in switching to graphene or a pixel, at least until it gets better or until iphone is shown to seriously be unsafe. stock iphone is safer than stock android and i’ll stick by my opinion, but i know almost everyone in the privacy space disagrees with me.
iPhone. Don’t know the model number but it has four cameras and is huge.
iPhone 14 Pro
Just switched to Graphene on a refurbished 10 Pro XL
Prior to that was a RedMagic 10 ProiPhone 15 pro max
I’d never use an iPhone if my phone were my main device—but I just want a phone/camera that I don’t have to think about beyond those specific functions, and for that my iPhone 12 mini works fine.
https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-star ? Its form factor sort of makes worrying about anything else impossible.
Phone? I largely use my tablet while I’m at home. Don’t ask what phone I use when traveling, it’s about a joke of a thing that barely works and probably isn’t even worth $5 as is, working. But it makes and receives calls and text at least.
Anyways, my tablet is a Maxwest Astro 8R. Also not all that much to brag on, but it’s powerful enough to emulate a PSP almost seamlessly. Camera sucks though and doesn’t have all that many sensors, not even a compass sensor.
Its running stock Android 11 that came with it, but I’ve never signed into Google and ive disabled practically all Google apps, including specifically Google Play and related services. F-Droid and sideloaded apps for me, I don’t even use the GBoard keyboard, Futo Keyboard for the win!
I keep buying motorolas because they’re rugged as fuck. I get a new one every 3-5 years. They’re all the same-ish these days, and rarely come with any sort of incentive or discount, so it doesn’t make sense to refesh too often. I try to get my money’s worth from my devices.
Can’t tell you how many samsungs my kids have broken, but both of their motos still work.
Can confirm, Motorola makes some pretty rugged phones. I had my T-Mobile Revvlry+ (based on the Motorola G7 but different camera) for like 7 years.
After the power button literally took a shit, I opened it up to see if I could fix it. Somehow they managed to seal the buttons in an aluminum block, completely non-serviceable, so I just kept using it for another 6 months or so, using the charging cable to wake it from sleep.
Knowing the phone was on its way out (oh yeah I forgot to mention the busted screen), I backed everything up, got sick and tired of the thing, and broke it in half by hand. And oh boy that phone was tougher to break than I thought…
the power button literally took a shit
Eww.
LOL, you know what I mean, it stopped working.
Kinda hard to consider reviving the phone if the battery ever went totally dead after that, so I knew after I realized it wasn’t properly serviceable that it was on its way out anyways.
iPhone with plans to switch to GrapheneOS on a pixel soon.
Fairphone 6 with Android. Waiting for Motorola+GrapheneOS phone.
Galaxy A14, which was the only new phone I could afford for 140 Euros (+ 50 Euros for the 512 GB microsd card) that offered the longest security updates.
Thought of getting an used Pixel 2XL and install (now defunct) divestos on it, but then the battery would be certainly dead and didn’t want to risk replacing it myself.
/e/os/ on a Motorola One 5G Ace.
I’d love to be using GrapheneOS, but I refuse to lower my standards to a sub-par device, and certainly wouldn’t pay the Google tax for the privilege. So I’m currently using a Galaxy Note9 with NobleROM while hoping against all logic that the Motorola + GrapheneOS partnership doesn’t spit out another useless wet fart of a device.
What GraphaneOS features do you miss in your current ROM?
Basically everything privacy focused. NobleROM is just One UI from newer devices back-ported so I have modern Android without losing everything that made the Note9 so great. There are the standard problems with banking apps and such that I’ve seen Graphene users able to get around. I’m also hoping Graphene will have an answer for the installation limitations Google is pushing on Android. I see what they’re doing as going the way of a death by a thousand cuts and further their monopoly until they’re no different from Apple.
/e/ and iode have better privacy features than GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS have great security but doesn’t offer anything special when it comes to privacy. /e/ and iode will also let you avoid new installation limitations.
The Motorola Signature looks like a good device so its successor should be too.
Sadly, the Signature is yet another victim of ‘innovation’. I have no use for a device that is doing the exact same as everything else at that price range. I’d sooner grab the Edge 60 Stylus, despite the significantly worse CPU.
I have a Samsung S24+ and the Moto Signature is better value.
The screen has a higher brightness, smaller bezels, higher PWM frequency and much higher brightness. It also has 90W charging and a flatter speaker response with more bass and midrange. All of those are compared to my phone, not your much older Note 9.
The GrapheneOS models are coming out next year, though they say it will be top of the range phones first. Whether that includes any below the Signature I don’t know.
It sounds like those features mean a lot to you. Especially brightness, apparently. But they mean little to me. I have no use for fast charging so long as the battery has enough capacity to last between charges. Smaller bezels mean nothing when the camera leaves a massive hole in that larger screen. I already own a high quality DAP, so I don’t need top of the line audio, just something I can listen to quietly on my studio-spec headphones. And despite brightness being so precious to you that you felt compelled to name it twice, I work nights, am nocturnal and my eyes are sensitive to light. Additional brightness means nothing when I never need it above 50%. I need utility, not boardroom-approved statistical refreshes.
Motorola G73 because I can’t afford anything more expensive :(
I removed all the Google apps, but I can’t install a custom ROM as none support this device
/e/os on Fairphone 4
The remaining question is: Do you run your own Nextcloud for backup or do you use the one provided by Murena?
I don’t have any cloud backup. If I had to, I’d probably use a self-hosted solution.
