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2 days ago I moved from GrapheneOS back to Stock Pixel in my 8 Pro, just to see what all the hype about the new android 16 in Pixel is about. Jesus, this is way worse than I remember. i tried it for 2 whole days, and that shit just won’t allow me to have ANY control over my phone. It’s fucking ridiculous. On Android 15 I was able to uninstall Google Drive, Meet, Youtube, and many other Google apps, this time around all it would allow was “disable”. What’s next, removing the ability to disable (which I don’t trust anyway)?

Fast forward to today, I’m back on GOS, and my anxiety levels are down again. This shit is insane, and I honestly can’t understand why anyone would put up with this crap.

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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

this time around all it would allow was “disable”.

This has been par for other OEM-flavored Android phones for years, unfortunately.

Disable is alright, not that the phone itself isn’t a privacy nightmare.

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kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Most users want those installed, anyway.

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- Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s a really lousy excuse in support of enshittification.
  
  How do you know most of users want that?
  
  Even if most of them do, that still negatively impacts literally millions of users who don’t want that.
  
  Most is anywhere from 50.1% to 99.9%
  
  So what are you actually saying? Because you aren’t being very precise.
  
  Most people want to engage in hetero sexuality, so everyone who didn’t shouldn’t get to?
  
  That’s the same logic you are using, I highly doubt you would agree that all non hetero relations should be discarded and given a giant middle finger. If you do feel that way JFC go touch grass or whatever
  
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Lemmyrick@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Thanks for the anecdote now i know i can just stay in gos

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- jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Please do stay on GOS. I already suffered for 2 days for the whole community.
  
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redhat421@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Those apps are installed in the squashfs image. Such images are write once, read many and thus they can’t be mutated at runtime.

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- PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well who made the decision to put non-system apps in the system partition?
  
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- jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I know, and that’s exactly my point. They used to be in the user space, now they are in squashfs. They CHOSE to do this.
  
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Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m stuck with Google. No aftermarket OS supports my phone. :(

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- jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  May I suggest you give RethinkDNS a shot? At first it’s kind of convoluted to configure, but once you have it set up the way you want, it’s smooth sailing from there.
  
  github.com/celzero/rethink-app
  
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Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve been considering moving to GOS because of all the Google shenanigans, but I need to make sure everything works since my job means I have dozens of MS authenticator entries for various admin tasks. I really want to try it out, but can’t afford to have to rebuild all those entries on a new system (and the notifications not work)

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