Basically I’m tired of all the restrictions smartphone companies are adding, and I just wanna have a cheap budget phone with a data plan then just hotspot it to my pocket-pc.

Does such a “pocket-pc” device exist?

  • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    1 day ago

    An Android phone with an os like LineageOS.

    What sort of restrictions are you trying to avoid?

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Is more like I want to pre-emptively move away from android in anticipation of Google’s autocratization, because, Google have:

      1. recently added restriction on sideloading in Singapore to “protect against scams”.

      and

      1. Google has also refused to provide pixel-specific source code to make it easier to build custom roms.

      Thete are just the first 2 of the “red flags” I see.

      So… as far as I know, Graphene OS is kinda on life support because it depends on Google’s co-operation. I don’t like the idea of Lineage OS because for most of the phones, you’re just running around with an unlocked bootloader, which to me, is insecure.

      Also: I’m not in the EU, I’m in the USA, so Digital Markets Act wouldn’t have jurisdiction here.

      To Reiterate, the things I want is (in order of importance)

      1. The ability to install any app/program I want (which Google seems to start to restrict, and Digital Markets Act doesn’t apply in my country). So I want to move away pre-emptively as a precaution.
      2. Evil-Maid resistance (such as Graphene OS with Re-Lockable bootloader, which is on life support I remind you, due to Google being a dick). On a computer, I can boot from a encrypted-USB drive in read-only mode therefore making it very evil-maid resistant (I know its not impenetrable, but it’s the best I’ve come up with).
      3. To have as much privacy as I can reasonably get.