Yes, but that got reversed completely and now Sam Altman is still in charge and the company is prioritizing profits

Yeah basically grub but on a USB stick and with ISO files

For what its worth, my Sony Xperia 1 VI didn’t come with a lot of google apps and it was easy enough to get rid of those. Obviously play services and some other stuff remain, so it’s not a degoogled phone, but it’s alright. Sony asks for some analytics stuff, but that’s all very easy to deny.

Sony also makes it very easy to root, unlock and flash your phone, with an official guide on how to do that. It’s not as easy as installing graphene OS, but I’m sure somebody will built lineage or something for it at some point

Edit: Here are links to the official documentation, Sony makes it pretty easy to built and flash AOSP

https://developer.sony.com/open-source/aosp-on-xperia-open-devices/guides/aosp-build-instructions/build-aosp-android-14/

https://developer.sony.com/open-source/aosp-on-xperia-open-devices/get-started/unlock-bootloader/how-to-unlock-bootloader/

Not on mine :(

I learned this the hard way when I lost all my fan profiles

Wait, Renault doesn’t ship anything outside the EU?

Replaced with one god awful one. I actually liked the calendar application, does all I need it to do. But no, I can’t have just a calendar application anymore according to Microsoft

Yeah it’s a totally different thing. I guess people who make the keyboards only really speak one language. It’s taken so much time to find a keyboard that actually does it. Gboard does it and I think Swiftkey used to as well, but those are not open source obviously.

I still have a bit of configuring to do for Heliboard, but I think I can get it to work for me

No way, why is that so hidden? I’ll check heliboard out! Thanks for the @, really appreciate it.

Now to find a swipe typing library

They have a language switch button actually if you hold the space-bar, but I need it to be without having to switch manually

Yeah that’s exactly it for me, I regularly switch between Dutch and English, so having to switch with a button is a nuisance. GBoard allows me to switch without any input

No multilingual typing with FUTO though right, or did I miss something?

Looks great but that is not a good name for an application

Why do you have to wait a week to use the bootloader?

Its a software limitation, you can’t unlock the bootloader immediately. After a week you probably have stuff on the device so you might not want to unlock it anymore

Or it might be a security thing so retailers can’t unlock stuff they sell so easily and put their own software on it

Sd card slot, headphone jack, great front firing speakers, no hole punch selfie camera, good cameras and awesome battery life

I ran yowhatsapp for like 5 years, was great until whatsapp forced me to use the official app

Yeah that’s why I caved and bought a Sony Xperia 1 VI, yes it was very expensive, but at least it still does everything I want

Yeah that’s totally true and worth a bit extra for me too

Yeah I suppose that’s not too expensive, although it feels like a waste when I’m not using all the services provided

I’m pretty much in the same boat, you think it’s worth subscribing only for the vpn and email?