Do you use a device with open source Android firmware? What device, which distro and what do you do with it? I have a Samsung tablet with LineageOS and apps from F-Droid. Other than displaying dire warnings about the unlocked bootloader every time it cold boots, It’s great for a “recliner system”: email, Web browsing, E-book reader and MP3 player. What do you have, what do you use it for, and how well does it work for you?

  • random65837@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Therea no way around the play store verification subscription when an app implements it. Not like the old days when you could crack apps, which is stupid from a security standpoint anyways, but either way that’s gone, and many apps are moving to that.

    That said, yes, people should try different things, but should know all the up/downsides of the decisions so they don’t waste their time as well. microG giving people push ability doesn’t really do the job anymore for many peoples use cases.

    A couple months ago when Google out a beating on Aurora and everything was near useless because of rate limited accts and people either had to log into Google accts or not get anything done, a shitload just went with Graphene and the sandboxed play services that they didn’t have to worry about. The Matrix room full of new installs showed that on a daily basis for weeks.