Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone

• gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s comments like this that make me worried about literacy rates and reading comprehension.

  I want to replace my Pixel with a cutting edge phone that is user friendly, repairable, highly private, has all the features I like, and whose company is owned by its workers and not evil.

  That phone doesn’t exist.

  So now we talk priorities. With Google looking to close down android, I want something more open than stock android. My options are very limited. Graphene only works on the pixel line and not even the newest pixels, which are very underwhelming, so that’s not a great fit. LineageOS doesn’t seem to support any new phones albeit I didn’t cross reference every phone. The nothing phone, and every other competitor, seems lackluster as well.

  So I’ve resigned to settling for any phone that’s cutting edge. If this is going to hopefully be my last mega evil corpo phone, I’ve been flirting with going with multiple screens because I doubt in 3 years there will be a non-corpo folding phone option if the normal slabs are still struggling. Samsung only “comes to mind”, and this might surprise or confound you, because we’re commenting on a thread about a Samsung phone.

  If anyone has better recommendations for a last corpo phone out now or on the horizon, I’m all ears. And if someone wants to try and convince me there’s a great phone out there that can run a non-stock OS and still be a largely enjoyable experience I’m also ready to be wow’ed. But I’ve looked around a bit and failed to find anything.

  source

  • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s possible to clarify your position without first insulting the person you’re replying to, fyi

    source

    • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They could have also reread my original message. They could have also commented something meaningful even with the wrong initial reading. They could have asked for clarification, additional context, or anything else useful.

      Instead their comment was… Idk how I would describe it. An attempt to insult? An unhelpful observation?

      Its the opposite of being an ally, of helping people break from their chains, to misread their position and then write something snarky. Idk, I think people who make online spaces exhausting or worse deserve a few more insults in their life. Especially if they’re not being helpful.

      source
  • domi@lemmy.secnd.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So I’ve resigned to settling for any phone that’s cutting edge.

    If you drop the “cutting edge” condition instead, you could grab a Fairphone, which ticks all the other checkboxes.

    Unless you game on your phone, you won’t notice a thing between modern high end and low end phones as long as they put enough RAM in.

    Samsung is the opposite of everything you mentioned besides cutting edge.

    source
  • punkibas@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Graphene now supports the newest pixel just so you know, Google held up the update that they needed to support it for a couple of months, but it’s out at last.

    source

    • Zangoose@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s worth noting that support for pixel 10s is currently in alpha and incredibly buggy

      source
    • gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s great to hear! Google is a PoS for doing that.

      source
  • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There's always Fairphone and Shiftphone if you're living in the EU. Not cutting edge, but should be more than good enough for most people. (Oh, and my Fairphone 5 is honestly built like a tank.)

    source