Are we already nostalgic for analog oligarchy?
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2025
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We burned down the past we can burn down the future too.
I feel like this is the new normal cycle of every software company. Once they become a leader, it's never enough. It replicates the rise of billionaires. Just as the billionaires being rich beyond anything they and all of their succeeding generations could ever spend is not enough, being the industry leader and producing an amazing product that people want is somehow not enough. It always turns to control and power.
I can't wait for AI to become a living corporate trillionaire entity and fuck us all to the end of humanity.
Time to back to the analog world and short wave radios.
Lemmy would rock in Morse code
It would only be days before someone builds logic gates using Morse code somehow (who am I kidding, it probably already exists), and we recreate the entire thing again lol
I came here specifically to ask about alternatives to Android now that google is becoming too abusive in the relationship.
Custom Android ROMs based on AOSP, which is the open source parts of Android. I used to use LineageOS back in the day.
Before buying a phone, make sure that it has an unlockable bootloader and a custom ROM of a recent Android version. Note that some phones have multiple versions for different regions and some might not be unlockable, while others are. For example many Samsung international phones are unlockable, but none of the USA models are.
Note that many commercial apps like Netflix, Pokémon Go, bank apps, etc. will refuse to run if your bootloader is unlocked. It also permanently trips Samsung's Knox.
Unfortunately, this seems to be something that might be changing in the future. Google isn't going to be open source with android development anymore.
Not android or apple. I'll go to a prepaid flip phone before I give apple a cent. They're essentially the paragon of greed.
GrapheneOS works well. But only on pixel devices.
Ironic that you need a Google smartphone, isn't it?
That's unfortunately a dealbreaker for me. I have a free phone from some company I've never heard of and I don't plan on buying a new one. Hopefully we will see more progress on mobile operating systems in the coming years.
Unfortunately, things are heading in the opposite direction. The number of phones you can install other os's on is dwindling by the day. Even the phones designed solely for this purpose are failing to capture enough market to remain sustainable.
The OS's are getting there by leaps and bounds, but you being able to install it on anything is the hard part.
Fuck them. I have a guitar a pocket watch and a wind uo radio. Everything have is a nicety.
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As shitty as M$ is, it would have been nice to see Windows phone become moderately successful and be a third primary mobile os.
I'd prefer that firefox os had caught on and turned into a big player today
I disagree. That would've just been more garbage like with the xbox.
I’m playing gears on PS5 as we speak. Ha ha. What a shipwreck XBOX has become.
That's great news. Exclusivity is not good for the consumer/gamer. Now you can play more games on your console.
As a platform holder is terrible, I have a series X and it’s a paperweight.
That's would just be Windows 11 S ~Mobile~ ~Edition~, but you do not get the option to upgrade to Windows 11 Home ~Mobile~ ~Edition~ as you would on a PC
Or maybe you do get an option, but its a subscription for $50 per quarter-year. 🫠
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The year of the Linux mobile is coming.
As long as companies can keep pumping shitty, almost entirely closed off android phones that cost less than 200 dollars for consumers (selling hardware at a loss while making up for data harvesting and sale), "linux mobile" will be just another meme along with "year of the linux desktop"
IS THAT A FUCKING HEADPHONE JACK!?
Let's go 🔥🔥🔥
Standards are low huh?
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