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Boxing Android (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 year ago by jabjoe@feddit.uk to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

So I've got Android as I want. LineageOS, no Google, Magisk, MicroG but with AndroidAuto with OsmAnd+.

But the outside world of WhatsApp, Bank apps, etc is putting pressure to join. Plus not everything works properly with MicroG instead of the Google service provider. Makes me cross techno-politically, but I can't always hard life tech choices when it effects others.

So, what do others do? At the moment, I've thinking I need a non-free phone and a free-phone! Then what, I keep swapping SIM?? I can't see a workable VM solution to run a non-free Android in a freer Android.

The state of the phone market is pitiful.

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[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

OK, now that is very cool. It's like Pidgin for 2023 and phones. I may well give that a try! May solve the messaging bit.

[-] Sivilian@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

If you need a code to get in let me know I still have some, I can't remember if they did away with their cue and just let people join now.

[-] Skunk@jlai.lu 1 points 1 year ago

They still have a queue, I just joined the waiting list.

Thanks for the discovery!

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

It looks like another closed app "build on open source". Not sure it's much more trust worthy than WhatsApp anyway. Need to read up. I wonder if I'm better of exploring open alteratives also set up my own Matrix bridges that Beeper is built on anyway. Though I've not heard good things about maintaining Matrix bridges.

I hope the EU get through the forced interoperability of chat apps......

[-] Sivilian@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I only use beeper as a convenience tool for getting matrix bridges for All the chats I don't care about. I have signal and normal Matrix separate from Beeper.

this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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