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The moment my phone disables sideloading is the moment I go back to using a flip phone and a laptop.
I will move to custom roms. There is no way I will don't use revanced.
Custom ROMs will no longer exist. Google is no longer sharing drivers for Pixel hardware on AOSP and they only release it public very late now. Samsung phones blow a fuse if you unlock them. Not many android brands left. Reverse-engineering and swiping of drivers will work for a time on older models, but it will become increasingly impossible.
Custom ROMs need the boot loader to be unlocked. These are getting harder and harder to find at reasonable price points.
TBH you should be moving to custom ROMs now and not later (Lemmy moment)
Moto G 5G 2024 is supported by Lineage OS anf CalyxOS (Calyx temporarily paused development for now), it's around $200 USD ($140 on discount right now) is supposedly unlockable, although you need an internet connection and request unlock codes from Motorola, which is... not exactly comforting because they could turn off the unlock servers at any time. (And carrier variants aren't unlockable afaik). Disclaimer: Haven't tried it yet... probably getting one soon to try unlocking (if unlocking fails, I'm just gonna return it)
Moving to Calyx once they restart development.
I need to wait. Custom roms development for my new phone has only just started. Right now, there are only beta releases of LineageOS (unofficial). It doesn’t look that bad even though it has a MediaTek SoC.
Either that or Linux, PostmarketOS seems most interesting to me. Not perfectly daily drivable yet it seems, but that's what Android is destined to become for me as well, just likely even worse.
Honestly, I kind of even just like the idea of saying "I don't have a supported smartphone" when someone pushes me to download some stupid app, but would you look at that, it's not some ancient device.
Although it seems there's no way to access SIM Toolkit on Linux, which I kinda need.
There aren't many good options for Linux phone... https://linmob.net/resources/#smartphones
I'll probably use my laptop for most things, then a phone with Linux, then a Lineage second phone for BS that doesn't run on Linux.
If that happens (and it's a big if, they're not taking adb away any time soon) I'll just use the fancy new Linux environment that Pixels have and script a way to open up YouTube from within that. Since it's my own Linux environment I can have adblock installed. No worries.
Brew OS superiority