Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse

jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Most users want those installed, anyway.

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  • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had to use MS Authenticator for work and it worked in GOS, notifications and all. Now, that was about a year ago, and I haven’t tried it since. At the speed GAFAM are enshitifying everything, there’s a chance it doesn’t work anymore. I keep a Pixel 8a stock for banking and some other apps that I need (such as EV charging networks) and won’t work or are unsustainably wonky on GOS. As I mentioned in another post, RethinkDNS is worth it, but it does take some trial and error to get it to work without breaking stuff I need, but once I got there, it was all good (that’s how I keep the 8a less intrusive).

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• Lemmyrick@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks for the anecdote now i know i can just stay in gos

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  • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please do stay on GOS. I already suffered for 2 days for the whole community.

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• redhat421@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well who made the decision to put non-system apps in the system partition?

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  • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • redhat421@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah. That’s a good point. I don’t know why anyone would put any frequently updated app in squashfs.

      I guess you can use the app right after you factory reset even if you don’t have much data which might be something? Are updates smaller since they’re just deltas?

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      • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In all honesty, I have no idea. I didn’t give the stock firmware enough time on my phone to check on anything other than the amount of tracking and the move to the system partition.

        As for the reason for putting them in this partition, I’m sold on the idea that it’s to keep the levels of invasion as high as possible while removing the user’s options to get rid of them.

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m stuck with Google. No aftermarket OS supports my phone. :(

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  • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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