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[-] bagsy@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

If we all want linux phones. we're all going to have to go through some initial pain of using linux phones while its still a bit rough. Its the only way out of the duopoly (short of legislation). We have to buy linux phones and makes apps.

[-] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

For now we can even use waydroid for using some android apps

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 104 points 3 days ago

We need to stop calling it side loading. Say it what is is android wants to stop people from installing apps

[-] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

"Installing independent apps"

[-] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 1 points 2 days ago

I like this

Google wants to monopolize installing programs on your phone.

There. That should make them cower in fear.

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

But you're installing apps when you click install on Play Store too. Sideloading refers to installing stuff outside of (the official) app store.

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

They are using “sideloading” to confuse the masses and give it a negative connotation

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Sideloading was an established term ages ago. You can always discuss their purpose in using it but it's not like they're using differing terminology to what was already established as the norm.

[-] dumbass@aussie.zone 127 points 4 days ago

Preventing installing outside of their monopoly is the correct term, not side loading, that's just propaganda to make you feel bad for using your device freely.

[-] isar@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

Yeah they’re built on top of open source anyways… yet they pretend projects like chrome or android would’ve never happened without them. They’re the ones freeloading off of open source and claiming it… and except for pixel they don’t build the devices we use, so fk them and their predatory practices…

[-] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

I finally stopped dual booting Windows after I got the "You can't log into this account due to repeated log in attempts or restarts, wait 2 hours" BS I ran into a few days ago. Sadly there is one game I can't get working on Linux or a virtual machine, and one laptop feature that will not work until the maintainer of my device's Linux drivers manages to get it working for my specific model, but being forced out of my own system and told I'm not allowed to access it for 2 hours is intolerable, and the fact its baked into the OS, and can't be disabled, even more so.

[-] aeternum 2 points 2 days ago
[-] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

Its called Gaia XI - Its the old MMO, Final Fantasy XI, but its been revived by fans. The complexity and nature of the game make it pretty hard to get it running on something other than Windows.

[-] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Holy shit, is this a real thing now? You're not allowed to restart your machine too much?

Thank the gods I ditched my dualboot setup months ago, I would have ran into this same issue.

[-] cRazi_man@europe.pub 71 points 4 days ago

Niche communities like this care. Normies don't care at all. That's where enshitification comes from, from the fact that companies don't get punished by the majority of their userbase even when they pull pretty extreme shit.

[-] Confidant6198@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Enshittification is a feature of capitalism, not a bug.

[-] monogram@feddit.nl 52 points 4 days ago
[-] sem 1 points 4 days ago

We need to evolve the format

[-] whoisthedoktor@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 days ago

Everyone: I MUST HAVE A LOCAL ACCOUNT ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS

Also everyone: uses iPhone with mandatory crApple account

[-] LAN_Mower@lemmybefree.net 28 points 4 days ago
[-] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Two companies where the customer relationship can be described as abusive.

You know. I know it. It's your choice to stay or leave.

Sick of the bullshit excuse of "all companies will abuse me" mantra.

Abusers need you to believe that.

It's a tiring conversation that you do for attention. Let me know when you actually want help escaping. Until then leave me about of your victim performance.

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Where does Apple fit on this meme?

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

They're just offscreen taking your wallet.

[-] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

What alternative do we have for phones? Is Lineage os simple enough for the average user?

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Followup question: what alternative do people with locked bootloaders who don't want to get a new phone have?

I just bought a phone earlier this year before I heard the news, and I planned on keeping it for the next four years, given that it's a brand new, high-end flagship device. I don't plan to sell. I don't want to sell. It's the best phone I've ever had!

[-] pipes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Always has been ;) E.g. my parents are rocking LOS+microg since forever, they have no idea what adb, fastboot, flashing, partitions, rom, root etc mean.

And if you get the right device it'll take you literally two minutes to install. But installing ANY operating system is just something the average Joe doesn't do today, so help people out or get yourself some help the first time. Same with Linux on desktops.

[-] boogiebored@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Not on my phone / computer!

I will literally just stop using a phone for anything but work. They suck anyway and have always been a shitty alternative to a computer and are constantly tracking us. We have been soft coerced into accepting this low quality alternatives.

I will use my computer with intention and have already started considering leaving my phone at home entirely when I leave.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago

At this point I just want a tiny palmtop Linux computer like one of those GPDs, or what the Open Pandora / Fira? was supposed to be, so I can do actual tiny computer things.

And just keep a "smartphone" to blend in with normies and survive in society at a basic level.

I'm so sick and tired of having to hunt down some super specific (but hopefully popular enough for developers) SoC phone hardware that's probably only sold in Europe anyway, so I can put a decent OS on it, which requires a whole weekend of steps because the hardware manufacturer doesn't want you to, and it's all good and dandy

"Except the camera doesn't work and Bluetooth will randomly die."

...Just to sidestep the ever present corpo-government panopticon trying to 24/7 beam the ad-verse directly into your brain.

My first iPhone 3GS was so exciting at first, so was my first Android I could put Cyanogen on. Now I hate these stupid manifest-landfill bricks because they're so adversarial to human well being.

I just wish it didn't require some absolute miracle of moved mountains to get some hardware that belongs to whomever buys it, instead of being black-boxed and booby-trapped to shit "Because screw you, that's why." Because The Market(TM) became about indebting and mining, instead of just selling a thing.

Agh! Sorry for the rant.

(Sent from my Motorola Stylus because they'll at least unlock the boot loader if you ask nicely and I can use my SD card and drawing on it is neat.)

[-] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I have the GPD microPC. I've run Fedora and Arch on it both with great success. It supports s3 deep sleep mode so the battery lasts days with light use.

My only complaint is that the keyboard and mouse buttons are terrible. Ive also never been able to get it to fast charge (which it claims to support).

I tried their slightly larger models as well. A little too big for holding like a tablet and typing.

I heard the microPC 2 is out now.

[-] TeddE@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Literally bought a new phone just so I could have a work phone with standard Android and my phone, with Google ripped out at the root level. (Also ripped out the dedicated ai button software)

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