ExLisper

It's not malware. They are talking abot physical keyloagger inserted into your keyboard. Real life hack possibility level: 0

Samsung s9 with iode OS. Good size, good performance and a headphone jack. Iode is also doing fine. Sometimes a bit late with updates but most things work really well and the extra features are cool. Hope it will last me for a really long time.

Simple, we just have to force google to allow manufacturers to offer degoogled android on their phones which is what EU is doing: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/18/eu-fine-google-android-anti-competitive-behaviour-consumers

"Google is also ordered to stop blocking manufacturers from using so-called forked or modified versions of Android, such as Amazon’s Fire OS, if they want to use Google services on their other devices."

Next they have to force google to allow alternative app stores preinstalled on devices and give them the same permissions play store has. With this you will be able to see truly open android actually available in stores. Companies like Mozilla (more probably some consortium like Mozilla/duckduckgo/Sony/LG/whatever) will be able to establish alternative app store that will actually compete with play store and offer same apps. We where close to this years ago buy google offered discounts to phone manufacturers that did not include other stores, made the system depend on their services and then punished companies that tried to compete by locking them out of those services. If EU manages to revert it and open up the platform we will have viable alternative that's way better than the web. And it can happen real soon. That's our best option at the moment.

That's exactly what I'm doing. One degoogled phone to carry with me and googled one for android auto and stuff. But that's exactly the issue, you don't have to do it with Linux.

As I explained in other post, AOSP may be open sourced but it still depends on android services owned by google. I have degoogled android and some apps don't work and other apps require device registration. And of course most apps are still only in play store. We're not that far for properly open platform and hopefully EU will get as there but we're not there just yet.

Web is a shitty platform. Since it started gaining in popularity as the way to do apps and not just deliver HTML it has been constant nightmare when it comes to privacy and security. It still is. On top of that your putting another sandbox on top of everything which doesn't make much sense on mobile and is bad for performance. It makes sense for some multi platform apps but web apps can't even access the file system in a normal way. Giving browsers a way to do this will be another security nightmare. Same with Bluetooth. Basically with web you have two choices: keep it all sandboxed limiting functionality while struggling with performance the way electron does or open it app and let random scripts execute with full access to your user space. Neither is a good option for a platform. You can reuse tools like js, CSS and HTML in some new platform but web will not make it's way to desktops and mobiles.

There are also normal taxis. I never had to use uber in my life.

By ethics I don't mean using signal over spying WhatsApp. I mean local shop instead of employee exploiting amazon or mastodon over right wing extremist supporting Twitter. People do understand what amazon and twitter do but not using them is just to much effort for them. Even if it's not that much effort at all...

So aurora is OS but it's pulling apps from play store. Each time you update your apps the updates will come from google. Unless you will manually download apk files from the web... It works for now but aurora already had issues accessing play store and it may stop working one day.

I have an app for public EV chargers that requires google device registration to work. It's the best network around so sometimes I have to use it. I have device registration disabled normally but that's another example where google services are needed for crucial functionality.

And I've recently installed another app that would not let me authenticate on LOS. Google is doing this on purpose and more and more apps will not work on custom ROMs.

And we are really far away from creating mobile app ecosystem that's not relaying on google. You can install mobian or something but currently absolutely no one supports it. I need android to use my bike GPS, my car charger, connect to my car, access my bank and even to use my climbing wall. None of this has native mobile Linux client. It will take decades before companies start supporting Linux on mobile the way they support it on desktop.

Even custom ROMs depend heavily on googles services. If you disable all of it you're loosing some basic features, some apps won't work and you have problems installing new apps. There are solutions but in the end you're relaying in googles closes source services.

On a Operating system/free software level we're doing fine. Not great (still no true open source phone OS, Firefox has like 3% market share, lots of closed/unfixable hardware) but you can work and have fun using OSS and it's not going anywhere. On a global economy level we're as fucked as always. Big tech isn't going anywhere and 99% of people will choose convenience over ethics every single time. We're a minority here and always will be.

One of Musk's kids is trans so this is shitty on another level.