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Phone Recommendation For Noob (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by Mana@lemmygrad.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello

I'm being pushed into the market by google/android to acquire a new phone due to it slowing down. I'm sick of this marketing tactic and the clutter of preinstalled apps and junk software.

What phone and operating system could I get that could allow me to use for a long period of time and out of reach from subversive tactics from giant corporations?

I'm basically a farmer and so know nothing about coding and not too technologically oriented but would really like to break away from the capitalist/hyperconsumerist phone craze. Thank you.

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[–] GayLegend@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Hey, I use a secondhand Pixel phone along with GrapheneOS. It's not super technical and once it's installed you're pretty much good to go, it has really nice and sane defaults, is updated pretty often, and the actual phones last pretty long imo. For non-techy people if you can get it loaded once it's all you need and it disables 95% of trackers and you can still use most things.

[–] Jouissance_juice@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Fellow graphene os user and I fucking love it

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