Noose keeps tightening, the war on General Purpose Computing, the war against users owning devices intensifies. How utterly fallen.

We'll see what happens with the proposed ADB changes. Lots of no one asking for this, lots of people describing how badly their phone use will be greviously impacted, and seemingly very little discussion/engagement/justification. Maybe they'll fire the bullet anyways. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/526109803

I don't understand why ensuring general-purpose computing is not a priority of the European Union.

All that talk about sovereignty, and we are giving full control of our digital lives to 2 American companies.

I think it might be a good idea to pause updates on our Android devices, as horrible as it is for security just to prevent this from happening. My OEM has a lot of bloat (Facebook and other junk apps you can't uninstall, useless system services, etc) that mostly do nothing except provide some functionality I don't use along with analytics every minute so they are uninstalled.

"Disabling" an app does not do that much, the OS can re enable it with an update or prevent you from disabling it.

I doubt there is true full privacy on a phone anymore with a stock ROM.

GrapheneOS has minimal, private [1] system apps so you don't have to debloat anything yourself. Manual debloating is not a good solution at the user level.

Some system apps are being overhauled, so that's something to look forward to. Gallery will be [2] based on ReFra [3].

[1] Except phone and messaging but that's the cell network.

GrapheneOS recommends Signal/Molly or SimpleX instead.

[2] https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/2083724696722301266#m

[3] https://github.com/IacobIonut01/ReFra

Extremely "Googly" responses there. Not a single mention of the strategy of Google to include, oh, payment, social gaming, ads ... effectively building it into the system and totally disregarding the reasoning that people might want to remove or replace Google Play Services for those reasons. Just act like all that doesn't exist.