Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App

• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s better than the alternatives, unfortunately. I really want to dump Apple; the products are waning in quality and the company is spending a lot of time genuflecting for king tangerine. But it just works.

  “Just install grapheneOS” my brother in Christ, I have no time or interest in fucking up with the primary communication device I rely on to reach family, friends, and work. I don’t have time for the hobbies I want to do let alone adding work-adjacent activities under the cloak of a hobby.

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  • ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The ecosystem is really seamless, especially with a MacBook and Apple watch in the mix.

    Though I don’t think there is any winning in the smartphone space. There is a duopoly and even if you personally use graphineOS you still are benefitting and helping the Google ecosystem by using Android apps.

    Sadly I don’t think we can “vote with our wallets” on smartphones. We need legal legislation that forces both Apple and Google to be consumer friendly.

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  • karashta@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Installing graphene was not like flashing a ROM ten years ago. You just follow the simple steps on the web installer.

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  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing would prevent you from communicating with a Graphene OS phone. It’s a smartphone OS, not compiling Arch here…

    But use whatever excuse you can find to stay in the Apple ecosystem, that’s fine.

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    • badgermurphy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It totally could and probably would. I am a phone OS tinkerer myself, but the above poster is right that it is a lot of hobbyist type tinkering and you can brick your device and fuck it up so you can’t communicate with your friends and family.

      I agree with the main sentiment that these alternative OSs for phones and computers are a lot better in a lot of ways, but we are unwise to act like getting your computer or phone that way is that easy. Trying to get an alternative OS working well on a device can very easily consume an entire waking day or more, and bricking is not impossible, especially with phones.

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• ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Never too late to switch to GrapheneOS.

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I can’t unlock my bootloader so i’m fucked.

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am in it for not too long, I wanted a Framework notebook but they didn’t sell in my country so I couldn’t purchase it through my business so I went with macbook and iphone next to because, why not.

  I generally don’t care much about things like in the op news tbh, as if I have a subscription for something I use it directly from the website

  And stuff like the seemless integration when switching from my phone to my MacBook with my airpods is fucking great.

  but I am not a normal techie, I am waaay overindexed on user experience over a lot of things, for example I pay for spotify because the Ux is great for me, I refuse to pay for streaming devices because my own plex/jellyfin server is a much better UX.

  I am also refusing to buy cars without physical buttons.

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