You lost me at shareholder. When I see that word, I know nothing worth reading follows

The zune was truly awesome! Its only weakness was that Microsoft actually didn’t really believe on it (same with the Kin)

“[Enter any AI LLM service or solution here] failed to deliver on over-hyped promises”

This is why I would never install company apps on my personal phone. If my employer wants me to have a phone, they can give me one that I will turn off and place infaraday bag when I clock out.

Jesus, it’s like anyone older than a gen Z is a boomer now

And that includes Linux gaming

I mean I get where you are coming from because most people are like Steam = PC = complicated AF, but PlayStation\Xbox\Nintendo = not PC = easy and its only reinforced by “influencers” that are just pushing corporate crap to consumers for comisión \ free shit.

They make sense because we don’t want your AI shit Sweeney

If your phone isn’t slow, fix it. If its unfixable, or you just want something newer, get a pixel phone.

Google says verification forces bad actors to use “real identity to distribute malware, making attacks significantly harder and more costly to scale.”

You are already doing that and somehow there is still malware in YOUR APP STORE

Kindly fuck right off a cliff into a mountain of cati Google

Love this! Since google is stupidly cracking down on android and fairphone is able to run Ubuntu mobile os. Now we will have an alternative to android and iPhones in the US

Didn’t know about duress password… Enabled

Plus, no sim card slot on the 10 in the US market

Fuck off Google, now we need degoogled phones more than ever.

*Sent from my cheap as fuck pixel 8a running graphene os

Edit: ducking autocorrect you ducking duck

I got an 8a. Almost the same exact features as the 9a but for much less money. Battery lasts all day easily for me, and runs smooth as butter. Storage is something I have to personally get used to as I only got 128gb and came from a 256gb s23 ultra but I’ll be ok.

Cameras are okish but you aren’t getting this for the cameras in the first place, but its more due to the lack of ai tuning in the cameras with graphene as I took some test shots with both my phones and they where on par with each other.

I bought my 8a used in immaculate conditions for $280 and its great for me.

I might upgrade to a 10 pro if I can get one with a sim tray later and can run graphene

Yep, got one arriving today

Makes me want a Graphene OS phone more than ever. Fuck Google

Also, no It’s not about the security vulnerability, devs already said they can work around this issue. It’s more because Google doesn’t deserve anyone’s data, much less mine.

Doesn’t matter (to me at least), fuck a $1500 phpne

Of course it’s a scam. But its also a money grab and a power grab. Google is completely gone from “do no evil” to “heil Trump”

What’s worse, is that I do self hosting and almost all self host apps are open source on the android side, so now I may loose several of those apps if they don’t want to sign or are banned by Google.

Looks like they want more control and to give more datapoints to feds… Time for Linux on my smartphone

I mean, you’ll be able to upgrade the usb port later, but I get your issue.

My $350 G-Shock Rangeman is better as a smart watch as my battery lasts a month of heavy use. If I want to dress up, I wear my $25 Casio F-91W silver band always gets the complements for being a nice and classic watch.

So, hear me out, but what if we all go back to feature phones? Smart phones are convenient, but do the pro’s weigh more than the cons at this point? I am also including mental health into this btw.

I remember a couple of months ago it was reported here that Google was making Android closed-source and I commented that this will be the end of custom rom’s and this was received by the community poorly as many stated that they would still be releasing the code but not their AOSP apps (or something like that) but I already see the writing on the wall. Google doesn’t want to be open-source, they where in the past because that gave them free coders to fix their shit and make them more profitable, but now they just want our data and the open-source community is against that, so they are closing doors to the community in order to be able to truly make money with people’s information. Wouldn’t surprise me if the next Pixel in the works is going with a similar approach as the iPhone and only allow for an eSim as well.

Does it even matter at this point? Any phone that costs more than $1000 is too much regardless.

Haven’t read the article, but unlockable bootloaders are on the rise.

Not sure what is going on with your setup, but Signal should work with any internet connection.

Well, with RCS everyone already has a baked in app that supports the protocol, but still doesn’t do anything better other the alternatives (I mean other apps, not sms).

I’m slowly moving all my friends and family over to Signal

No

I would recommend a Samsung S24, its pretty well built and closest to an iphone as far ecosystems are concerned. There are better android phones, out there but I would start slow if shes never had android before.

Doesn’t seem to work on the samsung keyboard. Any keyboard alternatives?

You skipped the step where you need to first aquire a pixel phone

Buzzkill is your friend if you want to solve this today

They are broken because Google broke them by changing the api and not giving devs access to it

Fuck subscriptions

1. It’s not open source.
2. I don’t think they would openly say that

Mostly to put data trackers and harvest your data to sell it, and it wasn’t an advertising company, it was an analytics company called Branch

You can help, that’s how open source works

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher

Yeah, no thanks.

That reminds me, is there a way to completely remove Google assistant and Gemini from a samsung phone?