Hello
I’m being pushed into the market by google/android to acquire a new phone due to it slowing down. I’m sick of this marketing tactic and the clutter of preinstalled apps and junk software.
What phone and operating system could I get that could allow me to use for a long period of time and out of reach from subversive tactics from giant corporations?
I’m basically a farmer and so know nothing about coding and not too technologically oriented but would really like to break away from the capitalist/hyperconsumerist phone craze. Thank you.
Hey, I use a secondhand Pixel phone along with GrapheneOS. It’s not super technical and once it’s installed you’re pretty much good to go, it has really nice and sane defaults, is updated pretty often, and the actual phones last pretty long imo. For non-techy people if you can get it loaded once it’s all you need and it disables 95% of trackers and you can still use most things.
Fellow graphene os user and I fucking love it
You also love the racist, toxic community that bans anyone who asks questions too?
I don’t know anything about that, I have an acquaintence who also uses GrapheneOS and has helped me get it set up
Having an acquaintance that uses an extremely niche Android custom ROM is a rarity, I would say.
Can you elaborate? This is the first time I’ve heard that, then again I’ve never used Grapheme and never interacted with any communities dedicated to the project.
It’s really better to NOT start this discussion again, it always bring to flame. You just need to know that GrapheneOS is a good product and developers are really good at their job in maintaining it. And still calyx, lineage, and /e/ are great product too that a lot of people can safely and happily use. Just don’t follow internet drama and use what you want to use
No, GrapheneOS developer and community is disgusting and for the most part FUD spreaders. Plenty people who dumped GrapheneOS know how toxic and unhelpful the community is. They are a bunch of rabid dogs on the internet (Techlore community called them that) that troll and attempt to shut down any criticism.
Many people have asked this now, and maybe I cannot keep my mouth shut anymore. I was thinking to stall it out. Not anymore I guess, especially not after the kind of reply you got below.