SO. MUCH. THIS.

  • Jay
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    A big part of it is built in batteries that are difficult to replace. My phone has a removable battery and is on its third one now… still works fine and does everything I want it to, after 10 years of use.

    Edit: It’s running Lineage Os 18 (android 11) not the original android 5(?) it came with, so security updates are not an issue.

    • @bobdowl@lemmy.world
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      141 year ago

      It’s honorable that you struggle through 2013 Android, but using an internet enabled device that hasn’t received security updates in at least 7 years is a horrible idea.

      Upgrade to a Fairphone at least, so you can keep replacing parts while also maintaining a base level of security.

      • @Voyajer@lemmy.world
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        He could be using a ROM with up to date security patches, I believe some phones from that era still have active custom ROM communities.

      • Jay
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        I run Lineage Os 18 on it. (Android 11) with the latest security patch being from august 2023, so it’s pretty much up to date.

      • @OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        Wish I had heard of fairphone before I bought a pixel. I have to decline Google assistant popups every fucking day

        • Guildo
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          31 year ago

          Is google pixel so bad? I thought those are solid phones…

          • @bobdowl@lemmy.world
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            51 year ago

            No, it’s just that on Lemmy anything that isn’t open source or self hosted is basically the devil.

            Google Pixels are great phones, but they come loaded with Google Services and this is what this commenter complains about.

          • @OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
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            31 year ago

            No it’s a very good phone, but I prefer to leave assistant off, and damned if it doesn’t pop up about once a day to ask if I’m it really really sure I don’t want to turn it on. Gets annoying

        • @hedgehog@ttrpg.network
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          21 year ago

          Pixels are the best phones to use for Graphene OS. You could also install some other degoogled Android distro, like LineageOS.

        • @GeneralVincent@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Do you mean a pop up from accidentally summoning Google assistant from holding the home button? I’ve had that issue on a couple Android phones and have had good luck going into settings and disabling it.

          • @OrteilGenou@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            No I disabled the assistant. I tend to always do that, because in the past I’ve found them to be nuisances. This is the first phone where I’ll fart and it pops up “want to turn Google Assistant on?”

            Pain in the ass.

        • @jet@hackertalks.com
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          01 year ago

          You can put a rom on it. Like grafino West, or calix OS. That’ll get rid of the assistant pop-ups.

          I realize the names are wrong, but this is Google voice to text. I’m going to stand by Google’s decision. This is clearly how they should be spelled