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.
It’d be interesting to have an app to measure that!
haha after 8 months I’ve found a nice app manager that has a foss app counter. how epic
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*.
*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.
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
1 app on 76 apps is not open-source. So 98.7% of my apps are open-source !
97.05% of my apps are FOSS, running on LineageOS with no google apps or play services obviously
I have 50 apps total.
Of the 50, 17 are system apps that can’t be removed (iPhone), leaving me with 33 apps that I’ve installed.
Of the 33 installed apps, 17 are self hosted and/or fully or partially open source apps & services, which works out to 51%
Edit to add: I choose open source whenever possible.
me too. open source software is the most privacy respecting and in a ton of cases it has more/better features.
I love open source. Both the philosophy, and the incredible usability of it all.
I have 22 apps in total, including system apps, and excluding Apple apps (I have an iPhone) I have 15. I think about 9 of my apps are open-source, so…
If you count the Apple apps: 9/22 = ~0.409 (~40.9%).
If you only count non-system apps: 9/15 = 0.6 (60%).I do plan on getting rid of some apps soon though, so it’s subject to change.
Edit: Fix formatting.
I have slightly too many apps to count…
relatable
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Yes, the label ‘Edge Dev’ gives it away.
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.
Well like 50% of my apps are open source but I still use android so I mean, how open source is it really. Anyone know of FOSS launchers? I currently use Niagara and it looks great but I’d love something open source
Kvaesitso is great. A search focussed approach to finding apps or files.
I’ve tried 10 or so launchers, and this one is the best so far.
Did you try KISS launcher? If yes, what did you like more about Kvaesitso that you use it instead?
I’m a huge fan of the KISS launcher, everything else feels bloated and annoying to me now.
Highly recommend KISS. They are both equally great launchers.
I used KISS prior to this one. It is an excellent paged launcher.
My KISS install had an issue of requesting a permission everytime I unlocked the phone. I could not remove the notification or mute it. So I switched out.
Either of them covered all of the features I am looking for.
Solid, i am now using this Alternative icons from my icon pack unfortunately do not work but i’ll live
I’m guessing a lot of it seeing how tons of apps use open source components and libraries whenever possible.
non AOSP android might as well be 2% with the amount of garbage google unloads onto it lol
I have a Samsung S22 Ultra. I just have firefox on it… so I dunno. Like zero percent probably.
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)
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.
like 70%
