You're right. Anyeay, my google account is just a placeholder, let's say. Everything is disable and I don't actively use it to store anything, not even my calendar.

Linux has become good enough to replace desktop operating systems.

Now, we are back at square one. I’ll be the first to inaccurately declare, “This will be the year of the Linux phone.”

Long enough for GOS to port Android 16 or get their own OEM, I hope

How, its baked in? Gemini isnt installed on my phone but its there. Like the circle to search.

Looking at postmarketOS for my phone too, so sick of this shit

You might be thinking of the normal Google Assistant

X is blocked on network level here, could you please copy&paste?

PostmarketOS is cool, but as an actual phone replacement it is tough, at least last time I tried.

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Same. My only use is accidental.

Guess I'm should get around to disabling it.

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We're going to be moving forward under the expectation that future Pixel devices may not meet the requirements to run GrapheneOS (grapheneos.org/faq#future-de…) and may not support using another OS. We've been in talks with a couple OEMs about making devices and what it would cost.

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All I need is a good enough emulation of android apps to fool them (eg for banking).

Gemini replaced Bitchxby on the latest Samsungs.

It's in the firmware.

With the S25 series they even give you a year of full subscription.

They made it the centrepiece of the launch event of the product line.

Galaxy devices now come with Gemini, your powerful AI assistant from Google. Long press the power button to get started.

The Samsung's front is called "Galaxy AI" but Gemini runs every new feature really - including "cross-apps actions".

(The non-obsolete Bixby features retained the name but are part of Galaxy AI now.)

But even with everything off One UI 7 (and Samsung apps, like camera) is still littered with AI buttons.

youtube.com/HinL5jCy_oI&t=1270

(Gemini is now the default action for long-pressing the power button)

I'm looking at a Volla phone https://volla.online/en/

But I also have no experience of Linux in general yet so I have no idea if this is a good move.

I just really want to get away from android/apple/windows on all of my devices.

I want SteamOS for desktop, because quite frankly gaming is all I really use a desktop for anymore.

Isn't Android using a Linux kernel already?

Sailfish OS has it.

Unfortunately the project has some closed source bits which, imho, aren't an issue when you look closer (some parts of the UI). Maybe I'm naive but I trust this EU company.

I use it as my daily driver. It certainly is frugal compared to recent Android versions, but fully functional.

It's an actual Linux OS (as opposed to any Android version). Things work the same way they do on my laptop & server.

I haven't tried, but I took a closer look at their wiki yesterday:

• the Main (official) devices are QEMU, i.e. virtual
• the list of Community devices is long, but whenever I clicked on something there were significant caveats

IMHO they should focus their efforts on getting at least one actual phone working fully.

I want this project to succeed, but until then I use Sailfish OS, btw.

Volla also has a (reliable, judging from reports) community version of SFOS

Behold, the Linux phone:

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Yes, but everything above it (including drivers) is custom-made and tightly controlled by Google.