You mean installing? How Google is going to handle restricting us from installing apps on our phone? Thats what it is. Sideloading doesn’t fucking exist.
Stop complaining, just use a different mobile OS.
… oh, shit!
See y’all on [email protected]
Thank you. I gave that community a subscribe because I want to use a Linux phone at some point in the future.
The big thing I have to make sure of is accessibility as I am a low vision user who requires the use of screen magnification at the very minimum and a screen reader is preferred for text such as articles and websites.
A Linux phone won’t help with the problem side loading stopping problem.
Last time I used side loading was on a driving trip in Italy, I wanted the ZTA app so I could see where I wasn’t able to drive and plan routes that avoided ZTAs. A Linux phone wouldn’t have helped as no one would publish such an app for Linux unless the user population was in the tens of percentage
ZTAs are the no cars allowed areas, usually the middle of towns
Waydroid let’s you use Android apps on linux, and Jolla (I think thats the right company) has their own proprietary Android compatibility layer. Not to say the experience is perfect, I’d say its closer to how WINE was 10-15 years ago. But it wouldve been do-able, albeit probably with a bit of headache.
Waydroid works great on my steam deck
+1
I’ve heard people call it sideloading for actual PCs.
Like, the fuck?
“sideloading”
Exactly. Stop using sideloading. The correct term is “installing”.
Google wants to prevent users from installing apps on their phones.
Very happy with GrapheneOS.
While it last, Google is disabling apks and you think they won’t lock bootloaders?
Well the next gen graphene os release will be on their own devices. They’re working with an OEM now.
Allegedly. But they are also looking at a Qualcomm chipset too, allegedly. Qualcomm is a US military contractor.
Which is why I’m monitoring [email protected] for updates and good targets to daily drive for work purposes. We can’t trust Google anymore.
It’s a quite ironic it’s only available for Google’s phones.
e/os is fine too.
Just switched and I’m liking it…just need to import my address book with out Google play
Check out Davx5, that’s what I used to pull contacts and calendar
Which repository does that app.live on?
I got it from f-droid, but you could pull it from github as well
Thanks, now any advice for a calendar I can share across devices that is not Google calendar?
There’s plenty, tuta calendar, proton calendar, nextcloud if you want to self-host ,…
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for your info, much appreciated!
