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David Gerard
David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

looking at alternate OSes for the fairphone, and basically i need a ton of apps on the Google Play store

annoying

android 15 just feels annoying too, but also i have my apps

i do not want a ringtone of "join us now and share the software"

so now i have to make android 15 less fucking irritating, somehow

xiaomi MIUI just didn't annoy me, this does

yes i need to be more specific to fix it

no I'm sure there's some precarious way to kludge "we have Google Play at home" into it, but no

it's like being stuck with Windows

EDIT: there are no words in the above post that are a request for a substitute OS, it's literally the opposite. stop it.

EDIT 2: and then GrapheneOS swoops in to try using this as a promotional opportunity, when they expressly don't support Fairphone https://archive.ph/lgc9I goodness me

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your fridge inspector
your fridge inspector
@pelle@veganism.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@davidgerard
install the #googleplaystore apps on #fairphone with #aurorastore?
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store

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rob :heart_bisexual:
rob :heart_bisexual:
@robbo@mutual.tls.zone replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@davidgerard Yeah; I have e/os & it's fine but some apps aren't available or just randomly break for like a month. I don't mind because I hate apps in general but most people don't want to live that way... BlobCat_OhNO

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DefaultKevin
DefaultKevin
@bthylafh@nerdculture.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@davidgerard have you considered ms-dos 3.3 with tandy deskmate

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Kevin O'Gorman
Kevin O'Gorman
@heretohinder@mastodon.sdf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@davidgerard not a recommendation coz I don't think they have Fairphone support but @GrapheneOS shows it's at least possible to isolate Google Play stuff to some extent.

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Orb 2069
Orb 2069
@Orb2069@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@davidgerard

A lot of the UI gripes and google shilling can be eased by a third party launcher - Lawnchair is popular:

https://lawnchair.app/

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Andrew Golding
Andrew Golding
@huronbikes@cyberplace.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@davidgerard it sucks that so much of modern computing (and modern portable computing) is big company leveraging its largesse to stand between the user and the capabilities those users wish to use in order to constantly attempt to upsell things or advertise to those users.

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Roger BW 😷
Roger BW 😷
@RogerBW@discordian.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

@davidgerard If I knew how to make Android less hateful I wouldn't have to run LineageOS + Aurora Store. Good lucik.

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