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For those who want their phone to respect them, while still maintaining smart functionality, I recommend LineageOS, it's a distribution of android without all t
by sandov 8y ago
For those who want their phone to respect them, while still maintaining smart functionality, I recommend LineageOS, it's a distribution of android without all the google's proprietary crap.
- wffurr 8y agoThat doesn't actually change anything about the smartphone being a distraction machine. All the same apps, social networks, constant notifications, etc are still there. The fundamentals have nothing to do with "Google's proprietary crap" and everything to do with being an internet enabled distraction machine, which is true for all modern smartphone OSes.
- sandov 8y agoI could say that open source apps — like the ones in f-droid — don't present the same amount of dark patterns that closed source proprietary apps do. But I agree, getting rid of google's proprietary apps doesn't necessarily mean get rid of this attention/dopamine seeking world we find ourselves in. However, I think a great part of how uncomfortable it feels to know that there's a smart phone in your pocket is knowing that it's spying on you, and getting rid of google's crap means that your phone doesn't spy on you, at least not by default.