Post #1275277

2026-01-29 12:30 UTC

It’s better than the alternatives, unfortunately. I really want to dump Apple; the products are waning in quality and the company is spending a lot of time genuflecting for king tangerine. But it just works. “Just install grapheneOS” my brother in Christ, I have no time or interest in fucking up with the primary communication device I rely on to reach family, friends, and work. I don’t have time for the hobbies I _want_ to do let alone adding work-adjacent activities under the cloak of a hobby.

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@karashta@piefed.social 2026-01-29 12:35

Installing graphene was not like flashing a ROM ten years ago. You just follow the simple steps on the web installer.

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@ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-01-29 15:32

The ecosystem is really seamless, especially with a MacBook and Apple watch in the mix. Though I don’t think there is any winning in the smartphone space. There is a duopoly and even if you personally use graphineOS you still are benefitting and helping the Google ecosystem by using Android apps. Sadly I don’t think we can “vote with our wallets” on smartphones. We need legal legislation that forces both Apple and Google to be consumer friendly.

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@Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2026-01-29 13:14

Nothing would prevent you from communicating with a Graphene OS phone. It's a smartphone OS, not compiling Arch here... But use whatever excuse you can find to stay in the Apple ecosystem, that's fine.

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@timestatic@feddit.org 2026-01-29 21:20

Just buy a Fairphone from Murena with /e/OS preinstalled. You don't have to do anything yourself. It mainly works like a phone without any issues, all the features I need work on it and I didn't have to install it manually and supported the devs

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