Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

• ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s very “meh…” with the added benefit of several (non-google) apps not working. I choose to live with this inconvenience, but it still bothers me that my smartphone is significantly less useful with grapheneOS in my daily life.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honestly, smart phones being less useful in daily life is probably a good thing.

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  • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You always have a choice. You can ditch your morals entirely, give up, be subservient to the capitalists and give your identity over fully to the system like the good little consumer slave you are and enjoy your normie life looking at your normie phone and toss us all out as tinfoil-hatted weirdos who almost convinced you to make your life worse for the sake of self-sufficiency, independence and privacy.

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh yes I forgot that pointing out the flaws in privacy-related things, so people who are interested in switching know what they’re potentially getting in to, is a big NoNo here…all hail the perfect FOSS which can do no wrong.

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      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Privacy and security just doesn’t mean as much to you as usability and connectivity. There’s nothing really wrong with that if you’re ok with accepting it.

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      • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The purity tests are so exhausting

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    • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dead Kennedys were prophetic when they named one of their albums “Give me convenience or give me death”.

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  • markko@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Having not used default Android for many years now, what makes GrapheneOS worse (aside from a few apps not working - which isn’t an issue I’ve had, fortunately)?

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    • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      GrapheneOS is not worse than other custom ROMs, never said it was. it’s a mediocre experience best described with a “meh…” and a shrug.

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• DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I went from 15 years of iPhones directly to Graphene, without really messing with Android in between, so my experience has been a STEEP learning curve, followed by a fairly hum-drum experience. But honestly, that’s fine. I want my phone to take more of a back seat and not be something I keep needing to worry about.

  My banking app doesn’t work in Graphene, but the website does, so I don’t really mind.

  It could that there’s a whole bunch of shit I’m missing, but mostly it’s… fine.

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• 2deck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, ive had zero issues with it 👍

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You have to pay google to use it (only works on pixel phones afaik).

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  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    There’s a thriving used market with significant discounts if you’re willing to go 1-2 models back from the latest ones.

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