#VollaOS oder #UbuntuTouch ?
Ich bin überfordert.

#Android #Linux

#Android is dead and we’d better all leave the ship before it sinks entirely.

Earlier this year #Google already took bold steps in moving the development of several AOSP components behind closed doors, removing the open-source foundations of the project one component at the time.

Options to unlock bootloaders on Android devices are also narrowing down. Xiaomi removed the ability to unlock the bootloader entirely in MIUI in August (after months spent making it ridiculously difficult), same for OnePlus, Samsung did so in July, and probably Google devices will soon follow suit.

And let’s not mention the nightmare of the Play Integrity API that forces all Android developers to register through the Play Store and use Google’s signing keys, even if they don’t intend to distribute their apps through it.

Sure, officially Google has taken a step back and has pledged to provide a way for developers and power-users to bypass those restrictions. But we can all expect it to be a cumbersome and change-prone process filled with ridiculous amounts of frictions at every step - and I wouldn’t even expect such a morally bankrupt company to keep maintaining this “sideloading” option.

Google once competed with Apple for customers. But in a world where Google walks away from the biggest antitrust trial since 1998 with yet another slap on the wrist, competition is dead, and Google is taking notes from Apple about what they can legally get away with. And the EU, the biggest opposer of its anti-competitive acts, is also becoming softer with Big Tech - both because Vestager has left the job, and because being soft with trillion-dollar monopolist tech titans is seen as a sign of being “technologically competitive”.

Your best bet is to purchase a Pixel 9a now, before more manufacturers decide to block bootloaders, and immediately flash it with #GrapheneOS.

The long term plan would instead be to throw all of our efforts and energies on Linux phones. The folks at GrapheneOS are doing an amazing job and fighting against all kind of pressures, but at some point we should probably all just acknowledge that anything that is tainted with Android, or runs on a device intended only to run Android, is a liability, and we should no longer build solutions on top of hardware and software that we can no longer trust.

Sailfish, PostmarketOS, UBPorts, MeeGo or whatever comes next must succeed. No matter the cost.

Over here they talk about the best Linux phones in the year 2025

https://thinglabs.io/best-linux-phones-in-2025

#InfoSec #Android #programming #technology #hardware #security

This is the Pine64 website where you can buy the Pine Phone. For me the hardware is lacking Memory storage Speed and Power

#InfoSec #Android #programming #technology #hardware #security

https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/

Howto Geek warning article with background on founder Blackwater/ Up phone. Including a down right scam warning from a competent programming group

#InfoSec #Android #programming #technology #hardware #security

https://www.howtogeek.com/dont-buy-this-privacy-first-phone-unplugged-up/

Up Phone website

https://unplugged.com/products/up-phone

#InfoSec #Android #programming #technology #hardware #security

This one is interesting; the person who founded Blackwater {see Wikipedia} is behind the company which makes the Up phone and uses a former CIA officer to plug the phone

This individual tells you that this phone is fantastic great it's just the most secure phone on the market.

We are on the internet; this is the period of Open large language models making drawings, videos, photos, music based upon petabytes of stolen information

If something sounds and looks too good to be true it usually is

It turns out that this phone is exactly one you should stay away from, if you value your privacy

I'll give you a few links in toots below. Watch the vid, then go and read for yourself

#InfoSec #Android #programming #technology #hardware #security

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZU4Pu5oFUY

FYI about SmartTube.
#android #tv https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/11/open-source-smarttube-youtube-client-removed-after-security-breach-new-install-needed/

Ivre, il utilise #Android sans compte #Google.

Protéger sa #ViePrivée ne nécessite pas forcément de changer de ROM. Ne pas renseigner de compte Google au premier démarrage de votre téléphone et utiliser Aurora Store pour installer des applis est une première étape toute simple.
Avoir un compte #nextcloud ou #infomaniak offre le nécessaire pour gérer son agenda, ses mails, ses contacts, la sauvegarde de ses photos pour pas très cher. #vieprivee #android

@fdroidorg @yaleprivacylab We should not need permission to run software on devices we own.

Framing this change as protection does not reflect the reality of the #Android ecosystem. #Google Play has long allowed unsafe apps, invasive tracker SDKs, and supply chain threats that slip through automated review. Independent audits have consistently revealed these issues inside of Google Play, even *after* Google claims to have scrubbed.

@fdroidorg I am the founder of @yaleprivacylab , where we have investigated #privacy and #security issues in #Android apps since 2017. I can say without hesitation that this change makes Android users less safe.

Android is based upon free and #opensource software (#FOSS) and that has always been defined by user choice. Blocking the capability to install apps directly from trusted sources outside #Google Play is not a small tweak. It removes a core freedom...

Android friends! A question for you:

I currently use Termux to run shell scripts, SSH, and a few other tools on my phone.

Is it worth switching to the new Terminal app in Android 16?

(Running GrapheneOS if that makes a difference to your answer.)

#Linux #Android #Termux #Android16

Combining my passion for Bass with threaded rods
Here I have a composition with my JOYO Bass pedals connected to my Short Scale Bass, chilling with my M24 threaded rod, a massive and heavy threaded rod, made of low carbon steel.
It was an adventure carrying the M24 threaded rod on the Time Trial race machine of mine

#Joyo #pedals #Bass #effects #chain #Photography #Android #sensor #micro #Colour #contrast #81A #warming #filter

My review of GrapheneOS is finally out: GrapheneOS - Android as it should be

https://r1os.com/sites/articles/grapheneos-android-as-it-should-be.php

#grapheneos #android #opensource #freesoftware #degoogle

I use #fdroid but #google may be enforcing #developer registration in #android soon. This has the potential to end F-Droid altogether. Well this is definitely inconvenient. Hopefully some solutions and workarounds are available, up to and including new #mobile OSes.

#apple is just as nefarious as Google when it comes to #user #privacy.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/?td=readmore

#technews #smartphone

Anyone know how to disable the extremely annoying rotate rectangle button in #android that appears in the lower left corner? (Which changes the phone from portrait to landscape)

Does an #android application exist that would work as bridge from sms to email? So, move received SMS to Email and allow replying to SMS from email (2-way sync therefore).

I don't even ask for ios for that...

The worst part? It's the growing loss of trust in @EUCommission, driven by a dangerous slide into proposals like "Chat Control" and their dystopian approach to age verification which, laughably, would require a Google a/o Apple-approved device and account.

Data, service sovereignty, my ass.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year

#alphabet #google #android #eu #europe #privacy

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.

#Android #Google

In case you have not done so yet, you should play around with Open Camera and advanced Open Source camera program which will unlock features of your camera hardware you didn't know existed.

I've tested the program on all of my current androids

#OpenCamera #Android #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #GPL

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However I can highly recommend the FreeOTP+ fork which has some other nice features, but crucially, saves and loads data correctly.