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    3 months ago

    Ha! That’s one of the reasons I switched to a degoogled android phone. The extra battery life is quite noticeable.

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        I’m using the volla phone x23 which runs vollaOS, an android fork without all those pesky Google background processes. It uses MicroG to simulate them though, since most Android apps expect them now.

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        My last phone with standard Google Android had a 5000 mAh battery while the new degoogled has one with a bit more than 6000 mAh I think. Even then I feel the overall increase in battery life cannot be explained with hardware only. Without watching videos or playing games, I only have to charge my new phone every 3-4 days. And I’ve background apps like syncthing running all the time. I’ve just checked there’s actually a few other open source forks of android other than LineageOS. If you’re disappointed with it.

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      If you use chrome or any chromium based browser, googles still executing any code they won’t on your device at will.

      Even if you don’t have chrome, but an app uses a chromium based web view.

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        3 months ago

        Degoogled as in “no code from google present” would require Ubuntu touch etc., but as in “no closed source stuff and no telemetry” is quite easy, using either Degoogled Android or another specific distro.

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          Degoogled as in “no code from google present” would require Ubuntu touch etc.

          I know what I said :3

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            Does that mean no code written in google employees, or not using code written by google employees on company time, paid by the company? Because both are basically impossible.

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              Code produced within google’s umbrella to the benefit of google; I don’t care what devs do in their free time.

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                To the benefit of google

                As their contributions to the android kernel are also partly used in the main branch, you surely manually remove every commit of the kernel before building it manually, or do you use windows or mac?

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                  I’m an OpenBSD user, I don’t think there’s any/much Google code there. Here’s some kernel contributions for Linux 5.10: