Man these pesky communist do live rent free in your head. Wankers

Indeed that’s why people should learn from it and not buy such crap in the future. If it’s not a lineage official supported device next step is xda forums for a rom. And if its really bad at least root the stock one and remove/block the worst of it. I rarely seen a phone where there is nothing to do at all but the junk heap

https://asahilinux.org/ but sure no roms for iphones

A few options

1,Getting a Mac with apple silicon and install asahi , dual boot. 2. Add a new SSD and some ram to your current one and enable virtualization in bios. Might need a bios update as well. 3 Dual boot windows , might want to check out https://ameliorated.io/ 4 Get a old crappy Mac just for the itunes. 5. Use the Linux tools mentioned earlier

Assumed as much without opening article

Peppermint is always left out. That is the perfect on for just working, stable and easy to move to from windows. It’s also lightweight and fast.

Peppermint is worth checking out. I don’t game but Debian and some extra on top. Lightweight

Used phones exist. GOS is not the only option either. So basically any phone can be improved with at least lineage.

Counterpoint 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywo-NT8K6B4&t=100

Counterpoint 2 You don’t. I use a bunch of them from different countries and crappy builds. GPay sure , just get a case with a cardholder

Yea its a lot easier just to flash a custom rom and not use it then trying to clean out a already google infested install. Usually a lot of headache , but usefull for really old cheap phone the runs out of storage due to updates.

Nope. You want to add them I say don’t do that. Post was not about removing Gapps. Adb commands for uninstalling system apps exist but there is like 10 minute of a learning curve to flash GOS

Don’t do that :)

Yes but internet exist so they are not stuck if they actually put some effort in. Unfortunately people don’t care the way they should.

Well . That’s what forks are for. The aim of GOS is not to support a lot of devices. Since it can’t achieve its goals of a reasonable secure device that way. But as I said a fork of GOS would be good , or longer support from calyx. I think I got a year more out of a pixel 3 on calyx OS. But if your goal is maximum security there is no way around the fact that without manufacturers updates and to a certain extent hardware limitations, it won’t be possible to do.

But best would be a good Linux phone so we can move away from Android all together, hope we can see that soon

A fork of GOS for EOL devices would be pretty nice I agree , but GOS doesn’t decise phone security, manufacturers do. Any phone with good enough security would be a target device for GOS.

Calyx OS usually run longer on EOL so I would go there before lineage.

Google do Google stuff not because they are evil. They do it because they can , which is true for any company in this system. If another takes the position it will do the same. Also its not like phones are Googles main income source. Buying a pixel and putting GOS on it probably is worse for Googles bottom line , no matter new or used, than using a stock any other Android.

I don’t have one. GOS

I don’t have one…

I would like people to pay for the labour they enjoy the fruits of yes. Or contribute some other way.

For me it is obvious that Lemmy is on the top of my list of project to donate to.

Even if criticism can be made, I mean it’s kinda sus to attack the development of Lemmy. I can find a bunch of really bad people you have paid money to. Maybe stop giving them money instead? but here we are getting nothing done. To quote: