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- Comment on Women go from homeless to 'tiny home' owners with a once-in-a-lifetime deal 2 days ago:
Thanks for the information. It confirms my impression that my dream is impossible.
I wanted to build my own house myself, which is a massive challenge. But the idea that it will be made twice as difficult because of other people, not the challenge itself, made me give it up. I wouldn’t have the emotional stability to tolerate that.
I’m not a fucking corporation wanting to profit from other people’s work. I just want a place to live! I fully support all possible regulations and fees scaling with the intended profit and people hired, but how come someone wanting to get a place to live have to put up with the same as someone wanting profit? Or worse, usually even more, since parasites have many ways of avoiding tax and other things…
And the price of land is a consequence of the same issue: that the market is made for “investors”, vampires, undead and other horrors.
The rest, septic tanks, solar system, etc, they are just natural parts of the challenge. Nothing to complain on that, quite the opposite; how easy it is now to generate your own energy with solar is a great show of progress. There will be costs with that, or with linking to the structure someone else paid and provided.
- Comment on Did google brick my s21 ultra? 4 weeks ago:
On the pixel:
I have a love/hate thing with it. You say it’s closed software, but it’s the opposite and it’s the only reason I got it; how easy it is to remove the google garbage and install something better. I don’t like graphene and I’m planning to try other things, but it’s soooo much better than the default google experience. If you don’t want google software, ironically google phones are the best ones for that.
But the pixel5 is the last “small” phone. And no sd card, no headphone. The phone itself I hate. I liked my s10 (which I lost) much better. But not having any google software on it is worthy, and after this last experience, it’s much more so now. That said I am planning on buying an s10 again and trying to put Lineage on it. It was perfect. Great hardware, acceptable size, sd card, headphone jack… There is nothing like it anymore…
On the g54:
Did you try installing another rom? Do you know if it’s easy? It seems like an ok option, though the camera and cpu seems to be worse than the s10. It may not have bloat (it’s funny because people are ok with all the google garbage, and to me that’s bloat), but it still have the google play virus on it, so it’s dangerous without a custom rom.
About the bricking:
Yeah, I thought I bricked many phones in the past, but there was always a way around. But never before it was by design, with a virus made by the manufacturer. Unless there is an unpatched hole (and unfortunately it is up to date), I doubt there’s a software solution. I don’t have a windows computer, but I’ll try to get one to try that droidkit. I fear it’s like those “kingroot” softwares to try to root phones, that only worked on old unpatched phones and installed a bunch of nasty stuff on the way.
- Comment on Phone recommendations, ex flagship, CustomRom, "hifi" 3.5jack, dual Sim preferably one esim, SDHX card reader preferably dedicated slot 4 weeks ago:
Did you figure it out? I’m on the same boat.
I would add the Galaxy a15 from my research, but from my previous experience i would like to avoid samsung.
- Comment on Did google brick my s21 ultra? 4 weeks ago:
The FRP is enabled automatically when a Google account has been registered on the device
How nice of them to automatically decide to brick my phone with no opt out inside a 500 pages agreement.
Now I know that google play is the nastiest virus on Android. I wish there was an alternative since apple is even worse.
And speaking of virus, most comments says droidkit is a scam. It does look like it is, but I’ll research more to see if it’s an option.
All other options assume I know my randomly generated account. I don’t. Every time I made a google account it was just random letters that i never planned to log in to.
But thanks for the help.
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- Comment on Privacy — why should I care 5 months ago:
I use my phone a lot lot. It’s a terrible addiction. But yeah, I’m not the usual user and my needs are different.
But I disagree with “spending twice the amount of time”. I’ve never seen that except on evil stuff that just handicaps the website on mobile for no reason other than “I’ll force you to use my app through pain”, when the desktop site is as good or even better than the app. And if it’s one of those companies, to me it’s a red flag. It’s not a service I’m using, it’s a company trying to abuse me as far as they can and I’ll be dumb if I continue on that abusive relationship and not break up.
But ending an abusive relationship is a personal choice. But to me they are inflicting that pain on them selves.
- Comment on Privacy — why should I care 5 months ago:
You are not going to like the answer, but… I just don’t do banking on a phone. I never did. Never trusted something that important on a device I’m carry around all the time. I do it on the desktop, which has an operating system I trust (Linux), that can’t get on anyone else’s hand.
I’m sorry. I wish I could give a solution. This has never been a problem to me but I understand it’s a massive thing for a lot of people.
On a more complicated option, the answer is: it depends. If you have a pixel with grapheneOS and you relocked the phone, I think a lot of bank apps will work. Or maybe a different bank doesn’t require that, or allows you to do it on the browser. I usually ask the bank before signing in if they will require me to use an app. If they do, I don’t chose them.
The reasons to require the user to use the app are almost always evil, anti-user, and shows it’s an organization that will fuck you up down the line, so it’s a good filter for me. A red flag.
But yeah, sorry. I’m just the wrong person to ask. Maybe someone else who looked into the subject can suggest something. I never even bothered finding a solution because I never saw a problem.
- Comment on Privacy — why should I care 5 months ago:
I agree. It’s just that you said it’s easy.
Maybe you were referring to unlocking the phone, which is really easy on stock android if you know how.
The day we don’t have the choice anymore is the day i stop using android. Or smart phones at all if the alternative is apple.
- Comment on Privacy — why should I care 5 months ago:
One thing i don’t usually see people mentioning is that personal data is money. Money is power. Do you want to give that company more power?
I absolutely do not want to make apple more powerful. With Android i can at least choose a company i dislike less, or even like, and give the power to then. Then i can even remove Google from the phone and not give them power. It may not be easy but it’s in the license of Android, while not so with Apple.
And that applies to every thing related to privacy to me. Do i want to make this company powerful? No? Is there an alternative? Then I’ll try that if i can.
If it’s too difficult to find an alternative i try to live with it. It depends on how much i hate the company and how hard is it to change.
My own privacy, funny enough, is not really that important to me.
- Comment on Privacy — why should I care 5 months ago:
Just like Ulrich thinking installing graphene being easy is just his experience, that is just your experience. I don’t have a single app that needs google play and that’s one thing i find it easy.
Whatever would need it i just use their website. Sure they try a lot to annoy you into using their useless app but it’s doable and becomes an incentive to find a better service.
- Comment on Privacy — why should I care 5 months ago:
As a GrapheneOS user, and someone who hates apple and would rather not have a phone than bend to apple, and while i agree with most of what you said, i would not expect the majority of the users to be able to install graphene. I don’t personally know anyone i would expect to be able to do by themselves. It’s easy for you. It wasn’t super easy for me, it would be difficult for most people.