I can vouch for this. I run completely unrooted GrapheneOS and no app has ever failed a safetynet test. Banking apps and Pokemon Go work just fine.

I’ve never had issues with LineageOS either, but this is before the hardware attestation days.

Haha that’s what I was poking at. You won’t find it on tap in an Australian pub. I don’t even see it in bottle shops.

I don’t think Fosters is associated with a country. Maybe Japan or England.

My priorities:

1. Blocking ads and protecting privacy.

2. Being able to accomplish the task on my phone.

Literally every phone has its priorities out of whack and I have to fix it myself.

I’ve got a 6a and I ended up rolling my own DoT server so that it would adblock, but also resolve to servers in my own country.

I also moved to GrapheneOS. The only Google stuff that broke was Google Wallet’s tap payment thing. Reportedly even Android Auto is supported now.

Oh - my kid just got a Motorola G84. It was a very cheap handset for 12GB RAM and no ads so far. Very close to stock Android too.

Gmail works with it.

But Gmail could technically pump the same ads over IMAP if they wanted to.

I’m an app developer. My company makes an iOS version, and it’s damn near impossible to deal with Apple’s shit.

Imagine buying a piece of hardware and actually owning it.

That’s the vibe I got from it. It took longer to activate the app than it took to get a card out of my wallet. It had the potential to fail if my battery was flat. Google could track my shopping habits.

So, that’s a pass.

I’m running it. Bank apps and Safety net things (like Pokemon Go) all work. Aside from Android Auto, Google Pay refuses to work.

So, there’s no downsides.

Actually, Google Translate didn’t play ball when I tried it. I miss that one.

The Melbourne demographics has changed wildly in the last 15 years. I’d suggest visiting first to make sure it’s still what you’re expecting.

It’s 16°C in Melbourne at 10:30AM right now.

Windows doesn’t even have a software repo.

As a worst-case scenario, AFTL could just make you download it from the website and it would be exactly as bad as Windows UX.

I once worked in retail electronics. TVs and PCs ran at 5% margin, while cables and connectors ran at 90%. Some $20 cables were worth $1.

My second device is a bank card. Easy.

Yes, it required a command line to perform disk partitioning and even a basic pre-erase.

It also asked about 20 more questions than necessary, and I had to answer “no” to each and every one of them.

Where Linux asks for a username, Windows insisted multiple time that I had to create an account. The only workaround was to physically unplug the Ethernet cable.

There’s also a step where you need to lie about your regional settings to avoid getting plastered with preinstalled trash.

If you blindly click “next” through a Windows install, you will get the most bloated, horrible, invasive experience possible.

There Windows installer is an absolute fucking minefield.

Windows devices are set up like that.

If you give someone a blank hard drive and Windows install media, they need to to all of those things.

I find it strange that people call it user-friendly, despite it doing a lot of things hostile to the user.

It’s easier than installing Windows. The problem is that someone hasn’t already done it for you.

The early pioneers of Lemmy are mostly software developers. Software memes will remain overrepresented until more diverse waves of people join.