Even after the software update a battery caught fire.

GrapheneOS

Yeah, I’m not sure just how low of a device you can get and get Lineage OS on it. I know that I generally don’t pay less than about 300 for devices because otherwise they get too slow for my use case.

I definitely don’t need a $700 device or above, but 300 to about 400 is my sweet spot.

When I purchased my device in 2023, I purchased the OnePlus Nord N200 5G, which was released in 2021, brand new in the box, because it supported Lineage OS, and I’m still using it today.

It’s because I only charge my phone between 30 and 80%. It still has less than 400 charge cycles on the battery. And so I’m basically using a 4-year-old device as a 2-year-old device and it still works fine with lineage OS.

I also paid $300 for it brand new in the box.

Be careful. I’ve read reports of at least two Pixel 6a devices bursting into flames.

My mom has a Pixel 7 we are replacing because it gets incredibly hot for no apparent reason.

You really should have thought about that before buying the device. You cannot install a custom ROM on my Samsung device anymore.

You always have to look at what devices custom ROMs support BEFORE buying them.

The substitutes for banking apps are banking websites. If your bank does not allow you to use your bank from a website, you should switch banks. I did.

Next, they’re going to tell you who you can have sex with and who you cannot.

Then make sure your next device is capable of running linear joes without Google Play services before you purchase it.

These days I do not make a phone purchase without making sure it will run lineage OS first.

Now, any device without Google Play Services will be totally unaffected. Any device with Google Play Services will be fucked.

We are looking at nothing less than the death of the internet. Needing to give your ID to access Spotify. Not being able to install software on the device you purchase.

I know right. I am degoogle class of 2019, and I’m so glad to have done so.

Any device with Google Play services will enforce this. Any device that does not have Google Apps and services will not enforce this.

In this case, China actually has a leg up over the West because they haven’t had Google Play services for a long time.

F, f, fifty billion dollars chuckles

Will ya take a check?

I enjoyed that movie and I go back and watch it every so often.

Has anybody ever seen the movie The Core? This kind of reminds me of that.

They’ve just been deprecated to doing it the same way that every other custom operating system has been doing it for a long time. It makes it slower, but it doesn’t make it impossible.

If these were seats on a plane, they got bumped from first class down to coach at the very back. They’ll still get there. They just won’t have the nice leg room and the extra peanuts.

I would rather have Linux phones, but while those exist, they are not mainstream and ready quite yet.

So, custom Android, such as Lineage or Graphene, is about the closest we can get for now.

Honestly, the downfall of Apple would be good news in my book.

I know Google is not the greatest about it, but at least on Android, you can install third party app stores and custom operating systems.