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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
I paid off my old phone early and got a grapheneOS phone ASAP just because of these motherfuckers.
Hell, I was firmly in the Android camp specifically because of the open source nature of their software. I never made the apps I wanted to make, but I like having the option to do so.
So you can go fuck yourself, google. Yes my phone is a Googlepixel 10 because they work best with grapheneOS. In a few years if I can I will get a Linux phone.
I'm really hoping we get a hard fork of AOSP that gets really popular.
it's called GrapheneOS.
it gets popular by you installing it and telling your friends
Why graphene? Lineage os much more popular and supports many more devices.
U can't trust Google hardware
Would a hard fork not splinter the software support, killing the ecosystem? E.g. some devs only support that hard fork, others only the android compatible version.
it's a nice incentive to double down on my degoogle efforts
Where u gonna go?
Introduce cutting edge tech to the masses, claiming it will usher in a new era of connection, convenience and utility.
Firmly entrench that tech into every corner of modern society so that most day-to-day activities SUPPOSEDLY cannot be done without it.
Slowly tighten the screws by removing user agency and freedom while raising prices.
Become obscenely wealthy from an entire generation of locked-in consumers who think they have no choice but to submit to your control over their lives.
Wash, rinse and repeat.
And yet none of my friends and family can see this blatantly right in front of them. Have people gotten stupider ? Its as obvious as the sun being hot.
They never had a problem with it.
See Windows and Mac.
Or IOS.
Or the people who cheered when Epic Games lost their lawsuits.
It's that whole frog analogy, where you can slowly boil a frog alive by gradually increasing the temperature by small increments.
I'm pretty sure that's a myth, but the analogy is still useful to get the concept across. It simultaneously amuses me and disappoints me that so many humans can be aware of this effect and still not recognise it happening to them, whilst the frogs aren't actually that stupid and jump out of the water.
I don't want to laugh about this. I am seriously freaking out at the idea of using the built-in apps instead of the open source equivalents. Calculator with Internet access? Camera app with ads before I click? Browser that spies on me no matter what searches I perform? No thank you.
The issue is that the masses will use the out of the box functionality and not think much of it. Most normal users don't mind that they can only pull from official app stores, and like the idea that this system is more secure. If everyone who didn't like this change stopped using the platform entirely, they would still have enough customers to maintain profitability.
and like the idea that this system is more secure.
*The false claim
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-gb/blog/labs/malicious-google-play-apps-bypassed-android-security
I understand what you're saying, but is it not comparatively harder to pass malicious programs into a walled garden (Play store restrictions) compared to being able to be downloaded without any checks?
Yes and no, your average end user trust the Play Store and the promised security which is why an app once it's inside can get millions of downloads.
Compare this to trying to get your average user to
a) trust your selfhosted app and
b) succeed in installing it.
Also, I can't find a single malware that has used f-droid as it's primary vector.
I understand what you're saying, but the barrier to entry for non technical people to jump into an alt app store is too high. Most are complacent.
You also get AI features you never wanted. Now shut up and be happy
Yes, dear.
Convenience usually wins until it doesn't.
Looking at the bigger picture, that convenience was manufactured from the start.
Fair point. People rarely ask what they traded away.
So an iPhone
No, stop using vanilla corpo software. They will fuck you again. Just put an aftermarket ROM on your android phone. I run LineageOS on an old OnePlus model. You can build it yourself if you're techy and paranoid, otherwise the tutorials to flash an official prebuilt image are not that hard for a tech-literate person, almost every supported device has a guide page on their wiki.
F-Droid for foss app repo
Aurora Store for anonymous Google Play login and installs
F-Droid for foss app repo
Aurora Store for anonymous Google Play login and installs
The whole point of this change is that you won't be able to use these anymore.
Tell me a phone with all the e features i want, and support for stuff like lineage and graphene And I’ll happily switch But i havent found any
I don't know what features you want, but GrapheneOS only runs on Pixels due to that team's specific concerns over hardware-based security, and LineageOS officially supports hundreds of phones.
Honestly, iPhone is already there in shittyland. You need to jailbreak to do it, which you can host install GraphineOS or root your android easier for the same effect.
We need a 3rd primer mobile OS option, but won't get one since the money always enshittifies these things.
This is the behaviour that brings you to pay multi billion fines in Europe
I'm surprised Google took 20 years to completely enshittify Android.