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They can piss off, there is no way I'm dowloading Google's ad ridden garbage apps of of their store. I'd rather stop using mobile phones alltogether
The worst part is, the vast majority of people will opt in by default, and when 99% of people do, that impetus will pull everything else in together with it. Us privacy and liberty minded fringe cases won't matter, because the tech will keep moving in whatever direction is dictated by the giants because they will have ensnared the global population in their schemes, and it will pull us along with the drift.
It's pretty god damned bleak. We need to seriously organize and coordinate resistance.
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Dude, I've been fighting this fight for over 10 years starting on reddit.
The amount of people, even supposedly?!? tech savy people that bootlick and excuse corporate behaviour is maddening. To the point makes you want to be conspiratorial and think they are saboteurs.
What I will never EVER understand is being loyal and "loving" a company. No matter if it's Apple, Samsung, Google they ARE NOT your friends. In fact they are the exact opposite and will make your life worse if it means they can squeeze an extra cent out of you.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Lately I've been thinking that what it is, is people trying to eliminate that overwhelming sense of existential dread which springs from all of this, by buying into it, just like fascists do- "if I join them they won't come for me". They start telling themselves that "maybe it's for the best", that "maybe good things will come of it", and once someone makes that jump it's easy for them to become zealous or fanatic, not only because it gives them an even greater sense of empowerment because they're now part of an ingroup or a club, but can also get off even more on perceived moral or intellectual supremacy over others.
These are extremely uncertain times, and uncertainty makes human scared and anxious, and scared anxious humans latch on to anything that gets them out of those feelings, in this case like surrendering before this gargantuan machine that they can neither understand nor control.
It's like with cultists. They crave the comfort of someone telling them what the truth is, to give them certainty. I don't know, something I thought about.
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I can only hope the EU will set Google straight, the way they did Apple.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]The EU will, at some point, cave to the interest of global capital. I am proud that they have fought as well as they have these past few decades, but as long as capitalism rules the planet, capital will always supersede rule of law and democracy in the end.
America is about to, if it has not already, succumb completely to that state of affairs, and once that power is consolidated by the capital, EU will be (one of) the next targets.
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Larger issue at hand is the number of devices that are able to install / are currently supported by those projects.
Even something like unlocking a bootloader is a daunting task for an average someone who's even considering flashing a custom rom.
Considering regional variants of phones (looking at you Samsung) making this an even higher and more confusing task for the average someone.
The littering of tools for specific devices, requiring running on specific operating systems, the list goes on as far as hurdles to load a more open operating system on a phone.
It's like that quote, "you can fool some people some of the time, but you can't fool all people all of the time"- thing is, they don't have to. They fool most of the people most of the time, and that is all they need to impose their agenda. The fringe cases, like people rooting and installing alternative OS's, don't matter if 99% of the world's population go along with whatever the corps dictate. The sheer inertia of that will keep pulling the tech where they want it to go, as global industry pulls the same way.
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I’m getting really sick of products being only available subsidized by a level of invasiveness that should be illegal.
You mean like smart TVs?
An early metastase of the cancer.
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meh both on mac and windows you’re not the true admin of the machine. mac requires disabling SIP and some others to even be able to delete default applications for example and don’t get me started on windows. linux ftw (as I type this from my old ass ios device)
And on any Intel hardware the true root account belongs to NSA anyway.
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They update the ui in most of their patches, theyve made the ui incredibly customisable. They have the classic header or a ribbon header. Its open source software it can't afford a redesign every few years to keep up with Microsoft design trends. The team is like 8 people.
I might be wrong but i feel like the people complaining about the ui dont really even use it. After a week of using it you get used to it and it looks normal.
I can use libreoffice. I just don’t. My Mac has Apple numbers and pages and they are enough for me and when I finally make the jump to Linux full time I’ll just have to adapt to libre again. But this is a complaint that many others have which is why I bring it up.
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No, the answer there is if scammers release scammy software and it’s not on the Play Store, that’s it. They’ve done their part and my job is to not be a tool and be careful if I’m sideloading, use things like VirusTotal, or otherwise just not install software that’s not vetted or open source where I can review the code. Nothing forces a user to use “ScamROM” or whatever example.
I don’t want Google policing my activity on my device.
I don’t want it either but you and I are not their only customers. We aren’t even in the majority of their customers. Most users want a Skinner box to look at porn and cat videos. That’s who Google is prioritizing.
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It's like that quote, "you can fool some people some of the time, but you can't fool all people all of the time"- thing is, they don't have to. They fool most of the people most of the time, and that is all they need to impose their agenda. The fringe cases, like people rooting and installing alternative OS's, don't matter if 99% of the world's population go along with whatever the corps dictate. The sheer inertia of that will keep pulling the tech where they want it to go, as global industry pulls the same way.
It's absolutely crook, I love my pixel but I'm not quite ready to wipe all contents, lose NFC payments and some application functionality.
Most of what I do with my phone only requires internet access, and a portable 5g modem is somewhat easy to come by. I don't play gamesor use many apps (home assistant, Lemmy, grayjay and a web browser) so for the most part I feel losing calls (or finding a workaround) won't be the worst thing that's happened.
x86 handheld consoles are becoming more popular, wonder how far that tech can be pushed before we have a phablet / phone sized device. Actually... Didn't Intel have some CPUs ages ago in phones that were x86?
I guess for me moving away from a pocket device and having a small Bluetooth handset tethered to something like a tablet / laptop would be a reasonable compromise.
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Nice, thanks for the tip.
Unfortunately I think the size might be the deal breaker though, just remembered how my current one literally only fits in my pocket if I rotate it in at the exact right angle. 8 extra mm in both directions and there's no hope.
I'm not ready for pants shopping again already, taking these ones in took 10 hours T_T
wrote last edited by [email protected]I dunno if sufficiently so but their new model is smaller and thinner, comparatively: https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s/
Loses the removable battery and headphone jack (sadly), though; but you do gain hardware switches and an extra 2GiB of RAM.
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I dunno if sufficiently so but their new model is smaller and thinner, comparatively: https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1s/
Loses the removable battery and headphone jack (sadly), though; but you do gain hardware switches and an extra 2GiB of RAM.
Dope, thanks!
