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submitted 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by lemmus@szmer.info to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

TLDR: i complain about samsung's flagship and newer android.

I use samsung flagship phone and it's crazy, how unable I am to use full potential of my phone, just because I don't want to log in to google neither to samsung. I try to use F-droid and Aurora Store whenever possible, but its so bad experience...for maps I use Organic Maps, but google forces it to be installed specifically from Google Play Store to work with Android Auto, so I have to log in every time there is an update. Most of games won't work, because they require being signed-in to google, and thats actually kinda weird..before my phone now I had an old Galaxy S5 Android 6.0 and games there didn't complain that much as here on Android 14 (so the newer android the less privacy you get, while them all companies "focus on privacy", bullshit liars), samsung requires signing-in to usd like 1/10 of the flagship features..It's so sad, as I love samsung's quality, phone is really outstanding, overall all samsung products are very good quality, but pushing these fucking accounts is convincing me not to buy samsung's flagship anymore. We need to finally unite and make some alternative to those close-sourced bloatware, as phone industry is nowhere near to being as free as desktop industry. I feel more free using Windoze than those fucking " smart"phones. Really if you have to buy new smartphone and are into privacy, think twice before you buy samsung..phone itself is great, but software side is a nightmare.

[-] lemmus@szmer.info 1 points 14 hours ago

Yeah not really "don't mind", but hopefully I won't need it, thanks

[-] lemmus@szmer.info 2 points 14 hours ago

I have to admit its interesting pick, I will try that out first in VM, thanks for suggestion :)

[-] lemmus@szmer.info 1 points 17 hours ago

Well I tried, it was better than cachyOS now, but still it was not so for noobs, i had to fix many problems using it

[-] lemmus@szmer.info 2 points 17 hours ago

KDE only, I would prefer stability (as I'm tired of things breaking up), but I need latest updates (thats why i liked flatpak, cuz it partially replaces need of AUR).

[-] lemmus@szmer.info 4 points 20 hours ago

Great...Right now, when I was thinking about finally installing Manjaro (I saw its for noobs, pretty well designed, i'm tired of "power users" distros). What else then? I used EOS, it was buggy sometimes errors etc., I use cachyOS and all the time errors and problems, but i just don't care anymore, Ubuntu is corporate's shit, maybe Mint or Fedora? Actually, I kinda liked flatpak recently, maybe I could live without AUR he? But on the other hand I need this rolling release cycle, thats why I hoped Manjaro is such "stable arch", I'm nvidia user...

[-] lemmus@szmer.info 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I knew it will be downvoted, but you have to realize, nothing is free in this world kids, I don't like it too, but it is what it is.

[-] lemmus@szmer.info 6 points 1 month ago

The problem is Signal supports up to 1000 people group chat, so it's better to find something different

[-] lemmus@szmer.info 8 points 1 month ago

Yo, try it on nvidia...or try some older programs, try playing games. Wayland is already good, but if it keeps being developed at this speed, then its 10 or more years left for this things to work yet.

[-] lemmus@szmer.info 3 points 1 month ago

Telegram isn't really an alternative, they don't even use encryption by default, so it should be faster. Better to compare real alternatives: Signal, Whatsapp, Simplex etc.

[-] lemmus@szmer.info 3 points 2 months ago

Myślę że złożyć jakąś skargę się da, może się trafi ktoś przestrzegający prawa

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