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• Fuckswearwords@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can’t even customize a lot of things anymore. You like pure black as in #000000. Google says fuck you. You want to know what time it is to the second. Google says fuck you. Want to control your notification LED. Google says fuck you. Want to prevent apps from being purged from the memory. Google says fuck you. I genuinely hope something else comes along soon. And no I don’t want Apple, they’re even worse than Google.

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  • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember when Android was about an open ecosystem full of various phone providers and choice.

    Now it’s basically

    • Google
    • Samsung

    Fucking lame

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    • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dozens more if you include the (arguably better) Chinese variants

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• Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I remember when I bricked my Note3 because I wanted the Note8 DarkLord firmware. That thing was called a PHABLET back in the days! It was like a folding phone, but a single piece! And nowadays it‘s smaller than a regular iPhone

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• tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh my God thank you. What the hell happened to our hacker community? Why has it rolled over and taken this bs? Where is cyanogen when we need him most?

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  • AZX3RIC@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He is she now. And CyanogenMod lives on through LineageOS.

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    • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      long live GrapheneOS! also congratulations to her!

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    • tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lineage is nothing compared to cyanogen

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We have graphene and lineage and mobile Linux

    It’s just your bank and mobile providers apps won’t work on those, and you kind of need their shitty in app 2fa these days.

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    • tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I use lineage. The second image is highly accurate

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Actually that’s slightly outdated news, GrapheneOS does have compatibility with quite a few banking apps now (they even have a community supported list on their site, and I’m using mine rn on Graphene)

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• Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We knew in 2015 what the end-game was, absolutely clear.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Back in the day, men who shaved would use a cutthroat razor that would last for decades. Eventually, a capitalist started giving safety razors away for free, knowing folks would end up paying much more in the long run when they brought new blades year after year...

  Similar maketing.

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  • Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Having experience with both, I can tell you that a safety razor is way easier to use than a straight razor, and gets you the same result in half the time.

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      lol! I stole my father's straight razor and used it for a while. I never learned how to keep it sharp, so I abandoned it for plastic ones. Currently using an old fashioned, double edged safety razor. The best option imho.

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  • tehmics@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now safety razors are actually the massive innovation of convenience, accessibility and low cost. While the industry moved onto cramming more and more redundant blades into their proprietary plastic cartridges while charing a 2000% markup.

    I don’t know how that analogy extends to phones but I’m not looking forward to that inevitable future.

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    • frog@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also safety razors are recyclable. Those plastic cartridges, since plastics and metals have to be separated, aren’t recyclable.

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I like to think that the next generation will go back to desk top computers and landline phones.

      If you want to entertain yourself you'll carry a guitar with you.

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• not_that_guy05@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is 100% how I feel. I started with Samsung back in 12-14’ and now I can’t do shit without breaking things. Google had now become Apple with their phone environment or are walking close to the same line.

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And Apple is implementing stuff that Android deleted years ago, like a seperate screen for all apps installed

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• carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A/B partitions are an improvement.

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  • moonburster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Whilst true, it can also be a hassle when trying to install a custom rom

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