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If you care about privacy and have about $100 + 4 hours you can get a Galaxy S5 running LineageOs without GApps (use F-Droid store) . Almost completely OSS bes
by spricket 8y ago
If you care about privacy and have about $100 + 4 hours you can get a Galaxy S5 running LineageOs without GApps (use F-Droid store) .
Almost completely OSS besides a few manufacturer blobs you can't really work around.
I have a "normal" Android phone I use for work but my S5 is my daily driver for everything else. Works great, hardest part is setting up stuff to replace FAANG.
I use ProtonMail, Open Camera, Matrix/Riot for family chat.
Haven't found a good calendar yet but overall way more usable than a dumbphone and privacy concious
There's some "nicer" options like One plus for LineageOs but you will probably find the S5 fairly snappy since its based on Android 8.0 . IMO the last few versions of Android make a much larger performance difference than a few CPU generations
- paulcarroty 8y agoLineageOS still use Google services for DNS and connectivity checks. I'd be non surprised if this number will be much more. Also, every third-party app can easily track you and steal data, check the news.
- spricket 8y agoYou may be right about connectivity checks although I thought they recently removed Google from those. Lineage has built on top of Android permission system to prevent most apps from stealing data (Android location permission is probably the most notorious). If you have a rooted device with lineage you can also run XPeivacyLua which fakes out any data that apps "require" to install