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

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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timestatic@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just buy a Fairphone from Murena with /e/OS preinstalled. You don’t have to do anything yourself. It mainly works like a phone without any issues, all the features I need work on it and I didn’t have to install it manually and supported the devs

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karashta@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨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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- Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  When for xiaomi…
  
  I’d love to jump ship.
  
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Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨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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ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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