• irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      2 days ago

      Its still cheaper to publish on the play store (one time fee of $25), and iirc apks would still be installable with adb anyway.

      Still a shitty thing to do

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      2 days ago

      Honestly, that’s great, but you might as well cut to the chase and switch ROMs as well. Google isn’t going to budge.

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          If you don’t care about installing any particular mobile software, that would work.

          LineageOS is the current game in town otherwise, unless you want a Pixel, in which case there’s options like GrapheneOS.

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            I mean, to some extent: waydroid actually works quite well, if you don’t mind their security issues, a few apps also work with android translation layer. My main troubles are actually with virtual keyboards: there’s nothing as good as heliboard so far, although the new plasma keyboard with custom layouts is usable

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              Interesting. I’ve tried Linux phones, they’re not a bad idea per se. It looks like Waydroid is literally just emulating LineageOS, though, so I do start to wonder what the point is.

              I suppose one advantage would be you can actually hack your system a bit, instead of having everything locked into the ROM.