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[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 hour ago

I’m bothered that big companies, especially tech right now, no longer see their customers as people they need to please to stay in business, but instead as something they’ll inconvenience and squeeze as much as they can possibly get away with.

They all got to where they are making, at one point, amazing products. Now? Fuck making windows useful, we can throw ads and AI at you every place we can think of. Fuck all of the parts of Android that made it stand out, we tell you what to install. You don’t want all of your data scraped and sold? Fuck you, there’s 3 of us and we’re all doing it. In fact we’ll never stop finding new ways to harvest data.

Phones have basically stagnated entirely in the US. Sure you get moderately better chipsets, but what else? AI? I haven’t had a phone struggle with anything in… maybe 10 years. Instead features that people didn’t use enough just get removed.

[–] thespawnkiller@lemmy.world 33 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I can't wait for AI to become a living corporate trillionaire entity and fuck us all to the end of humanity.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Are we already nostalgic for analog oligarchy?

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

We burned down the past we can burn down the future too.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Time to back to the analog world and short wave radios.

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy would rock in Morse code

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[–] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 28 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I came here specifically to ask about alternatives to Android now that google is becoming too abusive in the relationship.

[–] krakenx@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] Alaik@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] Yeahboy92@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

GrapheneOS works well. But only on pixel devices.

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 26 points 10 hours ago

Ironic that you need a Google smartphone, isn't it?

[–] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck them. I have a guitar a pocket watch and a wind uo radio. Everything have is a nicety.

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 35 points 14 hours ago (10 children)

As shitty as M$ is, it would have been nice to see Windows phone become moderately successful and be a third primary mobile os.

[–] fading_person@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 hours ago

I'd prefer that firefox os had caught on and turned into a big player today

[–] humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.su 8 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I disagree. That would've just been more garbage like with the xbox.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 15 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

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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[–] suodrazah@lemmy.world 48 points 15 hours ago (7 children)
[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 23 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

IS THAT A FUCKING HEADPHONE JACK!?

Let's go 🔥🔥🔥

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

Well all the major brands are below that...

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 11 hours ago

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"

[–] jukmehrk@lemmy.org 13 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

It's nice, and good to see more of a push. However, I think kill switches for at least microphone and camera should be the new default. It's absolutely ridiculous to walk around with an internet connected mic and a camera that looks at your face whenever you look at your phone. Personally, I'll never carry a phone around anymore that doesn't have mics and cameras desoldered or there's a kill switch. For the back camera a cover with a slide is fine, but doesn't really work with the front part.

[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

I just put stickers on the selfie camera.

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