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Android installing will be restricted in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil 30/9/2026!
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Sunshine piefed.ca Sunshine@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Move to Graphene, Calyx, Sailfish, Lineage, Nura, Ubuntu Touch before the chance slips.

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Sunshine (she/her) Moderator Sunshine@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2024-09-16
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Malaysia and Brunei are gonna be so smug until it's their turn on 2027.

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AwesomeLowlander sh.itjust.works AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-07-12
#3 · Quote Reply

Malaysia and Brunei are gonna be so smug until it's their turn on 2027.

Malaysia national ID app fucking doesn't work on grapheneos, fuck whichever agency made that decision.

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u_u lemmy.dbzer0.com u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-10-10
#4 · Quote Reply

Hi any official source of where you get this info? It's okay if you don't, I'll probably google it myself later.

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Mercer lemmy.zip Mercer@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-27
#5 · Quote Reply

Malaysia national ID app fucking doesn't work on grapheneos, fuck whichever agency made that decision.

You can use an ID physical card in Malaysia though right?

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AwesomeLowlander sh.itjust.works AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-07-12
#6 · Quote Reply

You can use an ID physical card in Malaysia though right?

Depends. Right now drivers licenses are digital only, so I no longer have access to mine. Possibly other things might go the same way in future.

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onipa feddit.org onipa@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-07-22
#7 · Quote Reply

What does "installing will be restricted" mean? Most people don’t install Android unlike Linux or even Windows a

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poVoq slrpnk.net poVoq@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2022-09-19
#8 · Quote Reply

What does "installing will be restricted" mean? Most people don’t install Android unlike Linux or even Windows a

Installing apps outside of the Playstore.

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Sunshine (she/her) Moderator Sunshine@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2024-09-16
#9 · (edited) Quote Reply

It just went live in Singapore and Indonesia.

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onipa feddit.org onipa@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-07-22
#10 · Quote Reply

Installing apps outside of the Playstore.

Ah true of course. I hope this accelerates Linux phone like windows accelerates the year of the Linux desktop

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Mercer lemmy.zip Mercer@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-27
#11 · Quote Reply

Depends. Right now drivers licenses are digital only, so I no longer have access to mine. Possibly other things might go the same way in future.

That's insane! I guess you could have an iPad or something with that on it right? Or a second phone kept in a Faraday bag

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AwesomeLowlander sh.itjust.works AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-07-12
#12 · Quote Reply

That's insane! I guess you could have an iPad or something with that on it right? Or a second phone kept in a Faraday bag

Well yeah, but privacy in my country is mostly a lost cause anyway. I'm on grapheneos more as a matter of principle than anything else.

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Mercer lemmy.zip Mercer@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-09-27
#13 · Quote Reply

Well yeah, but privacy in my country is mostly a lost cause anyway. I'm on grapheneos more as a matter of principle than anything else.

I know what you mean luckily my country isn't there yet but getting close

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