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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What if I install Lineage to it? That's what I intend to do when my Pixel 8 gets here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I like the fact it de-google's the device and strips the preinstalled BS; but It says it doesn't even come with the Play Store. How would I get my normal apps?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It doesn't include the Playstore per se, but it does provide an installer for a sandboxed Playstore.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

You can get Aurora store from fdroid which lets you download apps without having a google account.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It has the playstore, even has android auto now.

[–] yoevli 2 points 4 months ago

Fair warning, you do lose access to some offline AI features like improved voice dictation and song recognition as well as Google Pay. I'm okay with the tradeoff personally but it is still a downside.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Seconding the GrapheneOS recommendation. This is the privacy respecting route to take.

[–] jenny_ball 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what advantage are there to lineage? i used to use dirty unicorn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It lets you remove the pre installed crap and was faster and used less power to save on battery life when I used it before.