I assume everyone on Lemmy uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 or LineageOS flashed onto a LG Tribute with zero Google apps, and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?
I’m just a scrub using stock Android. Am I the only one?
I use Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 4 with Nextcloud backup (self hosted).
You are lemmy
I need an SD slot and headphone jack so I’m on a Motorola g 25. I got it a couple months ago. It’s pretty good so far. I chad an LG v20 prior to that.
Pixel 9 with Graphene OS. I don’t really bother with backups besides my personal photos since there’s nothing critical on my phone. But I use immich for photos hosted on my unraid server.
I do have two backup Raspberry Pis, one at my house and one at a friend’s, that my photos and other critical data is backed up to daily.
+1 for immich and local hosting.
I never understood backing things up to your own house. Like, if my house burns down I’ll lose my phone and my backup.
Indeed.
I have the photos backed up off site also. Along with any other important data.
Fairphone 6 with e/OS
S24 FE. I hate all the recent changes Samsung has been doing but this phone should last me until 2030 at least, probably more. I’m also the only person on Lemmy who likes OneUI, and I’m OK with that now that all alternative launchers are enshittifying.
By the time I need to replace it, the market will probably be in an entirely different place and maybe even some Linux versions could be more viable.
I use Immich, bitwarden, mega, and Tuta. Which covers the backup of everything.
Graphene on a Pixel 8a. One of the few currently viable options, in my eyes.
Fairphone4
Im jelly of people who can run GrapheneOS, I can lead others to water but can not drink…
S24 Ultra. Will be my last Android with the way things are going.
Being on an iPhone for 11 years and then going to Android was a jaw dropping experience.
But now no more sideloading and Nova Launcher went to shit with ads after the owners sold (out).
The FOSS launcher Lawnchair is actually pretty great. Took some setting up, but now it does everything nova did for me.
Sideloading though, yeah I really hope that doesn’t go through. Fun fact even now I can’t use a local gov’t because I have an accessibility service running that was ‘sideloaded’ (it’s from Lawnchair, if you want double tap to lock you need it)
Librem 5.
Cons: Storage and RAM small. Battery so-so.
Pros: I haven’t seen a single other phone I would rather own. Android and iOS are dumb as hell. Terrible OSes, in my opinion.
I want a Liberty Phone but can’t justify the money. This works well enough for me. I will almost certainly be buying the L5 successor.
How does it do as a daily driver? You can do banking? Run random Android apps, etc?
Nope.
Well, I don’t use any banking apps, personally. My understanding is that they don’t work under Waydroid.
Other Android apps mostly work fine in Waydroid, so long as they don’t need access to GPS or camera to work properly.
I removed Waydroid a while back, though, as I only needed it for one app and Waydroid took up almost 1/3 of the storage on the phone. It just wasn’t worth it, and I am happier to be rid of the Android ecosystem anyways.
I should mention that the Linux phone life is NOT for everyone.
I should also mention that battery life is still not anywhere close to competitors. Camera is meh but improves with updates.
For my use cases (Phone/SMS/MMS, Lemmy, Mastodon, and a few other apps), it works totally fine and has proven to be reliable enough for almost 3 years. It gets better with age due to updates.
I use a Samsung S23 with the standard Android system.
Sony Xperia 1 IV. Their naming scheme is terrible.
Main reason is because I wanted a future-proof, flagship phone with a headphone jack and micro SD card slot. Both have proven very useful, and I am still kind of in shock that most manufacturers have dropped them.
Stock android. Still using the NoVa launcher because I haven’t had the free time to try out others, plus my pi-hole seems to block the ads they have been introducing for now.
The Xperia has a weirdly narrow screen. I like it in a vacuum better than todays phablets, but I think the occasional webpage scales weirdly.
Still have an iPhone 12 mini. Will upgrade to like the iPhone 18 pro or something. I’m waiting until this stops getting software updates first.
I wish. Using a pixel 6 here, not looking forward to when I need to replace it.
Same here, the phone is perfectly capable making the software updates situation so dumb
Standardpixel, graphene didnt get my car journey or nfc payments
Nothing Phone 1, one of the best phones I’ve ever used, utilise the glyph system often and hope to upgrade at some point to a Nothing Phone 3.
Plus it’s not from the US, so perfect for me.
Nothing phone 2 here, been a great phone but I bought a new CMF phone and had to remove a bunch of forced AI bullshit using adb so I don’t think if buy another nothing phone. Still a nice piece of hardware sadly
Also on nothing 1. Had a pixel 5 before. This is much better. For my next phone I want something degoogled. Not sure if nothing got me covered threre
I’m thinking of a nothing 4 to replace my pixel 6. Glad to hear that so far nothing is decent, minus the AI
