We're going to have two phones, the big brother phone you usually leave at home for banking apps and tax filing and boring stuff like that, locked down and nanny up, and the "real phone" from aliexpress or whatever that is purchased rooted and you actually live your real life upon.

I would not be surprised to see double sided phone cases so we can carry our big brother phone with our real phone.

There is some prior art in people being forced to carry a "work phone" and a "personal phone" at the same time.

There will be strange product marketing effects. If you only carry one phone, you can currently talk people into spending over $1K on a high tier big brother phone. But if you only use a big brother phone for bank apps and only at home, a $1K phone from Apple or Samsung is a hard sell, I'd be more likely to spend $1K on a really nice anti big brother phone on ali express or whatever.

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Denatonium a day ago | parent | next [-]

Some of us are already doing this. My main phone is a Google Pixel 8 running LineageOS 23.2 with F-Droid, microG, and Aurora Store installed.

For things requiring Play Integrity, I picked up a $20 burner carrier-locked Motorola phone at Walmart for $30. It's WiFi-only, given that I'm never going to pay for service on it, but I can also tether it to my main phone. It's also useful for writing one-star reviews on apps that require Play Integrity to function, which is something everyone should be doing.

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ashirviskas a day ago | parent [-]

>For things requiring Play Integrity, I picked up a $20 burner carrier-locked Motorola phone at Walmart for $30.`

So it's a $30 burner phone, not $20?

	▲	Denatonium 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I forget if it was $20 or $29.99, but in either event, it wasn't much. If you shop at Wally World regularly, you can sometimes find carrier burner phones for $10-$20, but finding them in-stock can be a bit of a challenge.
	▲	bornfreddy a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Doesn't matter, it's still just $40.

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red-iron-pine a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

this is basically what I do now.

gmail and a "work-ish" phone. official stuff like DMV or banks use this. my work requires MFA and auth apps and they live here too. no SIM card and mostly lives at my desk.

my main phone for doin stuff is a different phone with a custom ROM and nothin but f-droid.

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gruez a day ago | parent | prev [-]

>and the "real phone" from aliexpress or whatever that is purchased rooted and you actually live your real life upon.

Ironically the phones with best third party rom support are google pixels. Good luck getting lineageos support or even unlocked bootloader on a random aliexpress phone. You might be able to sideload without restriction, but the ROM is probably gimped, won't receive updates, and has random privileged apps possibly spying on you.