R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://hj.9fs.net/khm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>khm</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@vwbusguy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vwbusguy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Tutanota</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ente" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ente</span></a></span></p><p>Eh, ok.</p><p>I think the FOSS Android builds deserve more credit than just being Android with a different theme. At the very least, "AOSP without Google crap plus some other niceties."</p><p>Unfortunately, there's not a lot else. I mean, yes, there's <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/pmos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pmOS</span></a> and many other amazing projects, but given how much people live on their phones and depend on crummy things like their banking apps to work, there's not a lot of options.</p><p>It's a bad state of affairs.</p><p>If AOSP goes by the wayside, I guess I'll get a used iPhone and use it like a dumbphone. I know some folks that do that already.</p><p>I do love my FOSS Android phone, though. It's a pretty decent middle ground between privacy and "functionality."</p><p>P.S., ARM is a horrible platform. Just look at the progress of any project that tries to get a de-blobbed OS running on bare metal on any modern phone. They never make it particularly far. Even <em>with</em> blobs.</p>