Ive been using google’s services since 2017-2018, now its time to finally depart from that. I just got it in the mail yesterday and I’m already in love with it. So much lighter and easier to carry than my samsung galaxy. Gonna transfer everything over in a sim card, switch to Tmobile and ill be good to go. 😁

  • Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.orgOP
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    18 hours ago

    Thank you for saying this. Yes, its getting way harder and its not easy finding an older phone to install these ROMs. Even with what’s going on with how Google is reacting with Graphene OS. They are slowly locking y’all out of the Pixels, and AOSP dropped support of the Pixels with Android 16.

    (This is one example) The latest update to the Pixel 10 camera is locking out Graphene OS users cause it needs Play Services in order to work

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      10 hours ago

      (This is one example) The latest update to the Pixel 10 camera is locking out Graphene OS users cause it needs Play Services in order to work

      i’ve installed https://f-droid.org/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera on my partners grapheneOS/Pixel. (Which is not only more private but also more customisable)

      Does the update lock camera access or just the default app for the camera?

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      17 hours ago

      Gcam builds are still a thing. But you need to lurk on forums/telegram to find the right one. It’s sad this is a thing nowadays for pixel.