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.

  • tal
    160·
    8 months ago

    It’d be interesting to have an app to measure that!

  • Evkob
    120·
    8 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*.

    ‎

    *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.

    • patakOP
      10·
      8 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

  • ClusterBomb
    70·
    8 months ago

    1 app on 76 apps is not open-source. So 98.7% of my apps are open-source !

  • shortwavesurferEnglish
    70·
    8 months ago

    97.05% of my apps are FOSS, running on LineageOS with no google apps or play services obviously

  • harsh3466
    60·
    8 months ago8 months ago

    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.

    • patakOP
      30·
      8 months ago

      me too. open source software is the most privacy respecting and in a ton of cases it has more/better features.

      • harsh3466
        30·
        8 months ago

        I love open source. Both the philosophy, and the incredible usability of it all.

  • hai
    50·
    8 months ago8 months ago

    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.

  • DaseinPickle
    40·
    8 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.

  • SMillerNL
    40·
    8 months ago

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

  • ComradeSharkfucker
    40·
    8 months ago8 months ago

    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

      • Lileath
        30·
        8 months ago

        Did you try KISS launcher? If yes, what did you like more about Kvaesitso that you use it instead?

        • cabbage
          30·
          8 months ago

          I’m a huge fan of the KISS launcher, everything else feels bloated and annoying to me now.

        • ace_garp
          20·
          8 months ago

          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.

      • ComradeSharkfucker
        20·
        8 months ago8 months ago

        Solid, i am now using this Alternative icons from my icon pack unfortunately do not work but i’ll live

  • muntedcrocodile
    30·
    8 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)

  • Altima NEOEnglish
    41·
    8 months ago8 months ago

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

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)English
    30·
    8 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.

  • mlgEnglish
    30·
    8 months ago

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