What I mean is how much do you use open-source software on these privacy disrespecting phones (Xiaomi, Samsung, etc).

For example I use these apps on my Redmi 13C: -Floris board as keyboard -Breezy as weather app -VLC, Vanilla and Kodi as media players -Fossify as voice recorder -SimpMusic instead of Spotify -Nekogram (Telegram client) -Organic maps instead of Google Maps -Sealnote notes -Persian calendar as calendar -FDroid as store -Jerboa and Dawn (Reddit client)

etc.

All of this is about 10% since I have 100+ apps.

  • Evkob@lemmy.ca
    9·
    4 months ago

    I’m running GrapheneOS, so out of 82 apps on my phone only 10 packages aren’t open-source. These include social media, messaging, banking, and Google Play Store/services. So around 88% FOSS.

    I only use proprietary software on my device if there doesn’t exist a FOSS alternative*.

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    *I know there are open-source options for social media/messaging but I don’t really consider having to convert my whole social circle to a new platform to be a viable alternative.

    • patak@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      yeah I also do the same. I still use Dawn (Reddit) while also using Jerboa because the communities there are much larger, etc. so yes I totally agree

  • SMillerNL@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 months ago

    I’m guessing a lot of it seeing how tons of apps use open source components and libraries whenever possible.

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
    41·
    4 months ago

    I have a Samsung S22 Ultra. I just have firefox on it… so I dunno. Like zero percent probably.

  • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    My hardware 0%. My software well i got a foss os and mostly use foss apps but have some non-free apps i need cos other people are not enlightened and i still need to communicate with them. An estimate maybe 80-90% foss.

    Ik u asked about non privacy respecting phones but i had to weigh in anyways. (On google pixel with graphene os and find most my apps on fdroid)

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    non AOSP android might as well be 2% with the amount of garbage google unloads onto it lol

  • DaseinPickle@leminal.space
    3·
    4 months ago

    Very few apps. I’m just trying to encrypt as much as possible, because I think the most important thing is to stay in control of my information. Hopefully a proper Linux phone will emerge at some point. I have experimented with the Pinephone and it’s promising, but there is still a lot of work to do.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    I have 284 apps including system apps and excluding system services. With system services, it’s 567. I counted 186 explicitly installed. It’s hard to tell which ones are open source, as not all of those are from F-Droid.
    I counted 48.

    So roughly 25% of what I installed.