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Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by prmoustache »

lreeves wrote: post #18
RadiozRadioz wrote: post #14

For a long time I was far too scared of being excluded from technological society to install this on my only phone, as much as I'd love to. It sickens me that banking apps, and others, depend on proprietary operating systems. What I do instead is have a separate device that I customize to my liking with Lineage, than an iPhone that I keep normal; I have the phone that I actually like to use, then a "normie phone" tha…

I don't have an Android device but surely anything that excludes can just be accessed via web browser? I use my banks mobile website in a mobile browser all the time.

Sadly for those living in EU many banks forces you to validate online payments with a phone app only.

Having said that, most bank apps still work on custom android images. Mine works on grapheneOS.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by notpushkin »

prmoustache wrote: post #50
notpushkin wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> limited the number of unlocks to one per person per year I’m wondering how exactly they are gonna enforce that.

you actually have to create a xiaomi account to be able to unlock a xiaomi phone with their crappy bootloader unlocking tool (only running on windows FWIW). This is just a terrible experience, avoid this brand like the plague.

Yeah, I went through it once. You also have to wait for 30 days IIRC.

There are unofficial unlock tools on Linux / macOS, though: https://github.com/topminipie/awesome-xiaomi-bootloader-unlo...

The problem is, you can create as many Mi accounts as you want. They can make it slightly harder by verifying your phone number, but that’s also pretty easy to circumvent.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by mikae1 »

TwoNineFive wrote: post #39
doublepg23 wrote: post #3

Highly recommend the Samsung S5e Tablet with LineageOS. It’s an amazing tablet for comics and light reading. Hard to beat its high res AMOLED display, incredibly light weight, and decent enough specs (I haven’t personally seen slowdowns when using Lineage on a minimal install). Forgoing gapps gets you crazy standby time. Couple things to note is it doesn’t have a headphone jack (it is legitimately that thin though) a…

The S5e is super old and many devices are likely facing battery age issues. I wish I had known this device was going to see long-term support like it received. I would have bought one at the time. The only modern tablet officially supported is the Pixel Tablet (tangopro). It's good enough but the screen quality isn't as nice as I would like. It should be supported for many years to come due to it's SoC being common t…

tangorpro has GrapheneOS support which would likely be a better choice until security updates stop coming from Google (and GrapheneOS) 2028-06-01.

GrapheneOS installs easily via your desktop web browser with the Pixel device connected via USB.

Re: LineageOS 22

#54

Post by tessierashpool9 »

timschumi wrote: post #7
Gualdrapo wrote: post #2

Have I ever got a bigger paycheck I'd donate to them without hesitation. It's because of them (and formerly Cyanogenmod) I got to have my Xperia Z1 for 7+ years, and now this Xperia 1ii for 4 years, each of them were/are doing great because of it. Hope they keep going strong.

To quote from somewhere else: Just to emphasize this for anyone else who is reading this: Please do not feel obligated to donate. Yes, it is greatly appreciated, since it keeps the lights on a little while longer and allows us to provide builds and host continued development. However, we regard donations as having no strings attached, and the same applies for using the builds that we provide. We will be fine, at the…

"Please think of yourself first." = \s ?

Anyway ... I'd totally encourage everybody to donate to opensource projects and/or its maintainers. Whatever the effect may be, but I think that's just simply appropriate.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by prmoustache »

notpushkin wrote: post #52
prmoustache wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you actually have to create a xiaomi account to be able to unlock a xiaomi phone with their crappy bootloader unlocking tool (only running on windows FWIW). This is just a terrible experience, avoid this brand like the plague.

Yeah, I went through it once. You also have to wait for 30 days IIRC. There are unofficial unlock tools on Linux / macOS, though: https://github.com/topminipie/awesome-xiaomi-bootloader-unlo... The problem is, you can create as many Mi accounts as you want. They can make it slightly harder by verifying your phone number, but that’s also pretty easy to circumvent.

Thanks for the pointers, when I did it, all the linux tools I had found had been abandonned/were not working.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by tessierashpool9 »

any insider info on the current state of affairs? is los just barely making by or is there still some enthusiasm. used it for a few years on two oneplus devices and loved it. but - the usual shortcomings and issues requiring workarounds or other adaptions finally led me to the iphone ... i hate ios ... but they just work and especially when traveling i didn't feel like taking any risks with google api integrations for maps and messengers (also camera is just better).

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by erzhan89 »

tessierashpool9 wrote: post #56

any insider info on the current state of affairs? is los just barely making by or is there still some enthusiasm. used it for a few years on two oneplus devices and loved it. but - the usual shortcomings and issues requiring workarounds or other adaptions finally led me to the iphone ... i hate ios ... but they just work and especially when traveling i didn't feel like taking any risks with google api integrations fo…

also switched few weeks ago from Oneplus to se 2022. and currently testing custom roms as eos, calyx.. to find some good alternatives.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by mschild »

mikae1 wrote: post #53
TwoNineFive wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The S5e is super old and many devices are likely facing battery age issues. I wish I had known this device was going to see long-term support like it received. I would have bought one at the time. The only modern tablet officially supported is the Pixel Tablet (tangopro). It's good enough but the screen quality isn't as nice as I would like. It should be supported for many years to come due to it's SoC being common t…

tangorpro has GrapheneOS support which would likely be a better choice until security updates stop coming from Google (and GrapheneOS) 2028-06-01. GrapheneOS installs easily via your desktop web browser with the Pixel device connected via USB.

+1 for GrapheneOS. I've dabbled in a lot of alternative roms over the years. There wasnt a single one that was as easy to install and use.

Re: LineageOS 22

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Post by kombine »

doublepg23 wrote: post #3

Highly recommend the Samsung S5e Tablet with LineageOS. It’s an amazing tablet for comics and light reading. Hard to beat its high res AMOLED display, incredibly light weight, and decent enough specs (I haven’t personally seen slowdowns when using Lineage on a minimal install). Forgoing gapps gets you crazy standby time. Couple things to note is it doesn’t have a headphone jack (it is legitimately that thin though) a…

If only these Samsung Android tablets had a more reasonable screen aspect ratio..
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