Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours
by lern_too_spel on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:47AM
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Android handles this reasonably well. I can use F-Droid reproducible builds where possible and fall back to Play Store (or Amazon App Store) apps for apps I don't care that Google (or Amazon) knows I'm running. I get to choose where I want to make the trade-off between privacy and convenience. If I want convenience, it lets me go further than any Apple product, and if I want privacy, it also lets me go further than any Apple product in that direction also.
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Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours
by nemosaltat on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:03AM
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I’ve considered making the switch back to Androids to play with F-Droid, do you have a device recommendation?
Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours
by lern_too_spel on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:17AM
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For phones, anything that gets updates directly from Google (Pixel and Android One) will update quickly and will have community support for LineageOS for many years after official support ends. Unfortunately, Google makes absolutely terrible hardware decisions, but nothing comes close in terms of software value, which is far more important in my experience.