Yeah, except Spotify isn’t just a music company. They’ve been trying for years to get you to use their App for other stuff that’s costs them less royalties.

So now Spotify includes all manners of audiobooks and shitty podcasts.

And while we all agree that age verification is bad… If anything ever deserves age verification, it may be Joe Rogan.

There’s many navigation apps that have traffic, like Magic Earth which 100% runs without GMS.

For review you can use gmaps wv or TripAdvisor.

Here We Go has traffic and TripAdvisor integration, but I’m not sure whether it runs without GMS.

True, but the pictures are useful though. I can tell a decent pizza from a shite one from a picture.

I have read maybe half, and the cringe in this piece is intense.

Imagine plauding Musk’s commitment to maintaining free speech on X.

I mean, there are problem with the DSA and there are plenty with Online Safety Act, but maybe try to SIMP for fascist Big Tech a little more discreetly?

I think you’re missing the point. If this is confirmed as a policy change, it’s not GrapheneOS that’s dead… It’s the Pixel as a mod-friendly device. And of course GrapheneOS runs only on that.

So the first thing you need to ask yourself is what’s the next best device. I have a Fairphone, I like it, they are extremely supportive of the community (so far as to help porting PostmarketOS on 10 years old phones). Then you decide which Android ROM is the best. CalyxOS for instance sounds pretty good.

Using a Fairphone does include a few compromises in terms of security compared to a Pixel. How important that is to you is something you’ll have to decide.

For me it’s pretty fine. If, like almost everyone around here, you are a human rights activist in Iran. Then maybe you should just keep running GrapheneOS on you Pixel with Android 15 for a few more years.

Hopefully within a couple years we sort this mess out, and a new reference device emerges with a hardware security features that are not too much of a step down from the Pixels.