KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

[dinnerboat@mastodon.acm.org]

@kde @fdroidorg @keepandroidopen Don't let Android devices become a closed operating system, I strongly oppose it!

[kde@floss.social]

@olivenolje @ambiguous_yelp @plasmamobile

Very much both. Also finding more hardware support. In that respect, we must not forget about the great work the people at @postmarketOS are doing! They help us get PlaMo on to more phones, giving us more space in which to grow.

[stem@framapiaf.org]

@olivenolje @kilgoretrout @kde @fdroidorg @keepandroidopen No, what brought us to this point is people giving false hopes about weapons that had largely proved their inefficiency.

[stem@framapiaf.org]

@simondeutschl @kde @fdroidorg @keepandroidopen If you fight with inefficient weapons, you have also already lost.

[zetabeta@mastodon.social]

@ambiguous_yelp @kde @olivenolje @plasmamobile
short:
linux mobile has roughly three ui options.
1 plasma mobile.
2 phosh.
3 gnome-mobile.

[justincrozer@fosstodon.org]

@ambiguous_yelp @helloclippy buy a pixel phone and flash grapheneOS if you can't get a fairphone. Its what I did in Australia. I got the pixel 9a the last pixel with a released OS tree.

[mormund@mastodon.social]

@Stem @kde @fdroidorg @keepandroidopen this letter is not only for Google, but also regulators etc. Especially the EU should be up in arms over a DMA violation here, but that's just my opinion man

[simondeutschl@troet.cafe]

@Stem
OK... ‍️

@kde @fdroidorg @keepandroidopen

[perrypeak@noc.social]

@ambiguous_yelp @kde @olivenolje @plasmamobile AFAIK the pinephone is the hardware (that can run plasma mobile or another interface) and plasma mobile is the software (that can run on the pinephone or on another device)

[fdroidorg@floss.social]

@Stem @olivenolje @kde @keepandroidopen So you wrote to your local representative already? What did they answer?

[ambiguous_yelp@veganism.social]

@justincrozer You mustn't have read the thread fully - it isn't available in their country either

[justincrozer@fosstodon.org]

@ambiguous_yelp correct I replied to your post because of follower hashtags I didn't realise it was a thread from how it was viewed.

[kde@floss.social]

@PerryPeak @ambiguous_yelp @olivenolje @plasmamobile

The preferred test hardware is OnePlus 6 and 6t these days.

[decapitae@mastodon.social]

@kde @fdroidorg @keepandroidopen Maybe let's port lineage OS and Ubuntu touch to more devices and let Google stagnate like the pond it's become?

[jessienab@wetdry.world]

@ambiguous_yelp @olivenolje some banking apps are almost required. Ex. some banks I'm with require it to do certain expected features, excluding withdrawal/deposit.

I've also seen one provider (wish I remembered the name) that explicitly stated they'll close your account if the app is not used every 30 days or so...

Hence why I have two phones...

[ambiguous_yelp@veganism.social]

@jessienab @olivenolje Ha thats ridiculous of them - if banks actually cared about 2FA for security they wouldn't use mobile phones for that they're too easily hacked; they'd insist on key fob devices instead.

Of course its actually about building a surveillance network and the banks get a cut of the profits

[toadofsky@mastodon.social]

@kde @fdroidorg @keepandroidopen Not to be rude, but as an average user/developer what's the issue at stake here?

[fdroidorg@floss.social]

@toadofsky @kde @keepandroidopen https://keepandroidopen.org/ has a section for users too.

Simple example, you want to install a nice app your friend made/recommended, you run stock Android, installation is rejected. The end.

[alephnumber@mastodon.social]

@Stem @kde @fdroidorg @keepandroidopen But this is the only thing we can do.

[scaletheory@mastodon.social]

@kde @fdroidorg @keepandroidopen

Apple and Google, 2 choices for apps from where we sit, and both are partners in crime. END MONOPOLIES. Capitalism has become extortion when conglomerated.

Tear everything apart and build it from scratch, the entire system has been subverted to evil.