I recently asked for recommendations elsewhere regarding a cost-effective phone with the best camera that’s a reasonable price. Almost unanimous recommendations for a Pixel a couple years old. I’m a total noob for privacy stuff but joining Lemmy under the dbzer0 instance, I’m feeling more motivated to learn more and get out from under the thumb of major corps as much as possible.

Can you have a Pixel and still de-google? It seems unlikely… Any advice?

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Of course you can, in fact GrapheneOS is specifically made for this purpose lol

    I’d just get a Fairphone and flash my own ROM tho. Reparability is a big plus here

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      1 year ago

      Does the Google Camera perform as good on GrapheneOS as when installed on stock? I’m thinking it may rely on proprietary libraries only available on the stock ROM

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      The camera has always been said to be a particular weak point of the Fairphone.