Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs

Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by AWildC182 on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:09PM (#20556858)

Buy an unlocked bootloader phone (ie oneplus) and put lineage os on it. Lineage doesn't come with any of the google apps or the play store, just a few basic apps and the ability to put whatever else you want on it.

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by rehemiau on Monday July 29, 2019 @01:17PM (#20556942)

This is what I've been doing for a few years now. Some apps require Google Play Services (Revolut?), some show a warning that can be ignored and run fine afterwards (Authy, Signal), some have limited functionality like no notifications (Slack), but many work just fine (Firefox, Spotify, and even Messenger Lite)

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by hestipod on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:12PM (#20559517)

Microg has forked LOS and packaged it preconfigured https://lineage.microg.org/

Useful if you want play services and store function without Google. But I know it has it's own security concerns so not clearly "better" overall.

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Re:Librem 5 Smartphone Final Specs by swiley on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:31PM (#20559656)

What makes alpine nice is that it’s super easy to compile yourself and hack on it.

Have you ever tried compiling android? It’s not fun.

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