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Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android
(www.phonearena.com)
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If you have a phone with custom ROM support, pretty easy. I've been running LineageOS without GAPPS for like 5 years now. Most stuff just works, but to be fair, I am not using any of the cool kids apps like google pay or android auto.
Yeah guess I don't really care for most of it. Can get anything I want as an apk or mostly just on fdroid. VLC and an SSH client would be nice.
I just got my Pixel 9a and put GrapheneOS on it. The only thing that seems to not work right now is KDE Connect, but I'm unsure if it might be me doing something wrong rather than being impossible.
https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#Troubleshooting
It runs just fine for me, huh. Certainly not because of lack of google services.
Maybe graphene is doing some firewall things? KDE Connect needs some ports open (to the local lan) to talk