The only reason I've put up with android for as long as I have is that I've had full freedom to run my own code and install my own applications.

Google wants to end that. That's the end of android for me.

hackaday.com/2025/10/06/google

@ajroach42 I was perfectly content with my heavily de-googled G85, already out of support and perfect.

They forced an update on me overnight a couple days ago and it's completely trashed my mobile. Battery life is 1/3rd, dozens of new services (like Moto AI) that I had to go find and kill, you name it.

I wish I could get a fairphone or something.

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@Longplay_Games @ajroach42 i treat my phone like equipment being loaned from a carrier because thats what it feels like to me these days

@lyncia @ajroach42 Back to the Ma Bell days of a leased phone line, wiretapped and bugged within an inch of its life?

Does feel that way.

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