• archchan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4 months

    Love that some megacorp can just make decisions like this that affects billions of people.

    Really just feeling the fucking freedom. I hate everything.

    • datendefekt@feddit.orgEnglish
      4 months

      The megacorps can do anything they want with their product. The chef can change the menu anytime and he can refuse you service - it’s his restaurant. Our problem is that it’s a duopoly and there’s nowhere else to go.

      The only way out is open standards and platforms, enabling true competition.

      • Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4 months

        Real quick.

        Just imagine you order a plate of pasta. You’re only two bites in, and it’s DELICIOUS.

        Then here comes chef. While making full eye contact, he tips your plate and dumps all of that pasta in the trash.

        Chef proceeds to take a giant wet shit onto the plate. He brings a new set of silverware and a fresh napkin right before your server comes back with the check.

        You insist that you didn’t order a giant wet shit, but they won’t take it off the bill.

        Let’s stop pretending this is an inevitable oopsie. This shit is egregious.

        • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
          4 months

          Daddy Googs won’t be happy until it’s a walled garden just like iOS

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 months

    I recently switched from Apple to a De-Googled Fairphone 6 (Murena e/OS), because I do not fully understand Graphine OS and I thought the Fairphone would be the easiest way to detach myself from Apple and Google.

  • ferrule@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4 months

    I currently run GraphineOS. I will probably buy one more refurb phone that can run it until Android is dead. Then I am switching to a dumb phone for calls and SMS, and a mobile hotspot connected to a pocket sized cyberdeck. I can still run the apps I want and no longer need Android. With a 3d printer, 25 years of being an electrical and software engineer I can easily make a device that does what I actually want.

    Is this practical for the average person? Of course not. But this whole problem is something the average person can fix. STOP BUYING SHIT FROM COMPANIES WHO SCREW YOU!!! Use your power as a consumer and stop giving them money. Make them feel the pain of doing anti-consumer actions. None of this stuff is a requirement for life. If they see a hit in sales, if everyone who makes apps pulls them from the app store, they will change. But it requires everyone to act, and we damn well know most of yall will do nothing but complain.

    This problem is a foot gun where we are all buying the gun, loading it, handing it to someone while sticking our foot out and we want to blame them for the bloody hole. Stop it!

    • Newhere@lemmy.mlEnglish
      19 days

      How much I agree with you!!! Unfortunately, i don’t have this kind of knowledge, oh I wish I had ! I am not even capable to custom ROM to Lineage Os or GOS… in my circle of friends they are all drawn in Google and not seeing any problem at all. I wish I could be supported during process of customizing OS. I think I already do a pretty great job being with any Google app or service last 3 years, though.