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Aside from the Librem 5, have you thought of buying an Android phone you can flash, flash an open source ROM (LineageOS), and only use FDroid? Yes I know that
by kop316 8y ago
Aside from the Librem 5, have you thought of buying an Android phone you can flash, flash an open source ROM (LineageOS), and only use FDroid?
Yes I know that you still have baseband + binary drivers, but at least then all of the apps are open source, and so is the OS.
- heywire 8y agoYes, definitely. One of these days my freedom loving privacy aware side will win out against the side of me who enjoys the convenience and ecosystem of iOS :). At this point my entire extended family is on iOS, and use several of the iOS only features.
- kop316 8y agoHaha that's fair! Out of curiosity, what iOS features do you use? I ask because one thought you can do is have that as a phone and an iPad, so you can segregate your very private stuff and still use an iPad for iOS features
- heywire 8y agoCertainly nothing that couldn’t be done on another platform, but Apple has done a great job of locking us in. iMessage (including playing the games via iMessage), FaceTime, the built in location sharing features, sharing app purchases, etc. All easily replaced with alternatives, but the friction to get everyone to switch over is tough. My personal systems almost all run Linux, and I do have an android tablet, but for my main communicator, iOS is just so convenient.
- kop316 8y agoGotcha. I am "that guy" in my family as almost everyone else has iOS, so I don't share in a lot of that. One thought for you, I just had my Nexus 5x die, but I got a Sony Xeperia XA2 for $150 and I flashed it with lineageos. See if you can use it and ween yourself off?